She met her last year. So far we have 3 phenotypes of "Powhatan" x leuco "burgundy." One is this one, another is yellow with really dark veins, and the third one is all red.
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Here's my least favorite thing in the plant beds, a giant water bug. This thing is about the size of my BlackBerry, and will make a grown man scream like a little girl with one bite. This is the molted shell.
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Wire Man, on Flickr
Satyr butterfly on orange milkweed.
Q7142195 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
What we thought was Tetragonotheca, but isn't.
Q7142202 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
Baby assassin bug!
Q7142208 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
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Wire Man, on Flickr
Not Tetragonotheca
Q7142213 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
We found this on the side of the road.
Q7142214 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
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Wire Man, on Flickr
Some kind of native orchid.
Q7142222 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
A very large jumping spider.
Q7142224 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
This is a ditch in Westmoreland County that used to have Drosera intermedia in it. It's entirely too overgrown, polluted, and trashed for sundews to survive anymore.
Q7142227 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
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Wire Man, on Flickr
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Wire Man, on Flickr
Who throws a TV in a pond?!
Trash by
Wire Man, on Flickr
We found a logging road that looked promising.
I found this butterfly
Q7142232 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
The rest of the team found this lily.
Q7142233 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
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Wire Man, on Flickr
This is what the majority of the ponds in the area look like. Weedy, neglected, and awful.
Q7142235 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
I was going to take this, but paper wasps built their nest in the brain case.
Q7142237 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
We may have lost Drosera intermedia in one site, but we found a new one!
Q7142238 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
We found about 6 plants on the North bank.
Q7142239 by
Wire Man, on Flickr
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Wire Man, on Flickr
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Wire Man, on Flickr