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Monday, June 19, 2023

6-19 Clammy Ground Cherry, Southern Arrowwood, Giant Ichneumon Wasp, Red-bellied Woodpecker

 6-19

The flowers of Clammy Ground Cherry dangle inconveniently face down. Look for the plant in fields and open woods.


Southern Arrowwood, a Viburnum, can be seen in woods and borders, often near water.


A Giant Ichneumon wasp was busy ovipositing, laying eggs deep into a tunnel bored by the larva of a Pigeon Horntail which the wasp grub will parasitize.


And, rather surprisingly, a Red-bellied Woodpecker is regularly drinking sugar water at my Baltimore Oriole feeder … much to the chagrin of the local hummingbird.

John


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