3:00 snapshot #1363

I'd like to plant some common milkweed in our yard to help support the sharply declining monarch butterfly population, but we don't have that cinderblock-and-asphalt habitat it seems to need.

3:00 snapshot #1364 plus bonus work-related random photos

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3:00 snapshot #1365 bugs (well, no actually--coleopterans and hymenopterans if you please)

Zookeeper Jake gets some superworms for me.


I got called to deal with this wasp's nest. I dealt with it by explaining that it was a mud dauber, that it won't bother anybody--it will just grow up eating the delicious paralyzed spiders it's mommy made for it and then fly away some day. Not all stinging insects are pests.