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Hackberry Emperor
The Hackberry Emperor, Asterocampa celtis, is a butterfly that exclusively uses hackberry trees as its host plant. We have an extreme over-abundance of hackberry trees here at Blue Dragon Hollow. This month we have seen hundreds of these butterflies as they are emerging from their cocoons and flying around doing their butterfly thing. Today, while…
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Ant Mound of Doom
There’s a few of these ant mounds around the property, maybe 3 or 4 that I’ve found so far. They’re huge circles of death, in the center of which is an ant mound entrance, and they’re crawling with red, hot fire ants.
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Deer
I didn’t get a picture, but this morning I saw four or five white-tail deer running along the back fence line!
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Wildflowers
Here are some pretty flowers I’ve found while mowing. The pink looks like some kind of wild petunia and the blue like some kind of bellflower (campanula).
