Okay, so it’s no magazine title, but it’s accurate.

I found this lovely little creature on the sunflower chip feeder that I was bringing inside. It had been sitting on the table, and he decided it was a good perch. I had to scooch him off to bring it indoors, and then identified him as a Small-Eyed Sphinx.

I’m hoping for another banner year for Pipevine Swallowtail, and we’ve got a good start so far! Snakeroot first, as usual.

I had been concerned about the arrowwood viburnum I got last year not producing flowers because it’s Blue Muffin (only one they had) and that needs another type of V. dentatum to fertilize it. I need not have worried, though, because my little flying friends must have found some somewhere. This had only a few berries on it last year (literally–like half a dozen), so I’m hoping for more this year.

One of the fat carpenter bees that love red calibrachoa. Lots of butterflies (especially swallowtails) seem to like it as well, but these bees crack me up because P calls them, “Your 500 pound bees”, and that’s what I think of every time I see one.