Water beads on a few leaves, 23 July 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

4 August 2024

Recent outdoor attractions include flowers, insects and the play of light on water. Here are few things seen last week … and even earlier.

Water beads made tiny magnifying lenses two weeks ago. Since that morning the weather has been too hot for condensation.

Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) and teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) are in bloom.

Pokeweed flowers at the tip and fruit forming at the bottom, Duck Hollow, 2 August 2023 (photo by Kate St. John)
Small teasel completely in bloom, Herrs Island backchannel, 3 Aug 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

Insects are busy in the heat. On 28 July sycamore tussock moths (Halysidota harrisii) dangled by silk threads as they lowered themselves from the sycamore trees. The only way to photograph one was to wait until he landed.

Sycamore tussock moth at Frick, 28 July 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

Zabulon skippers (Lon zabulon) have been easy to find. Some of them look ragged.

Zabulon skipper, Frick Park, 31 July 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

We found a pair of greenhouse millipedes (Oxidus gracilis) who kept walking as they mated. Two million legs in one photo?

Greenhouse millipedes mating, 31 July 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

And on 29 July I was surprised to see seven common mergansers (Mergus merganser) at Duck Hollow. They made arrow shapes on the river’s reflection as they swam. (The seventh one is underwater.) All but one of them looked female — in eclipse or molting.

Common mergansers make arrowheads on the surface of the Monongahela River, 29 July 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

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