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Monday, August 11, 2014

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The blunt, drab little flowers of Carpenter's Square AKA Maryland Figwort can be seen along roadsides and open woods.
Wild Cucumber's flowers drape over wee patches and thickets especially near water.
The orange, black and white shaving brush hair tufts of Milkweed Tussock Moth caterpillars make them easy to identify. All plants in the milkweed family are host to this species.
And gray, hairy delicate Cycnia Moth caterpillars hang like lumps of animated gray old on Indian Hemp, their favored host plant.
John
Maryland Figwort

Wild Cucumber

Milkweed Tussock Moth caterpillar

Cycnia Moth caterpillar

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