Shining as if varnished a Brown-hooded Owlet Moth caterpillar works at one job: eating and growing. As its name implies, the Brown-headed Owlet moth itself is an undistinguished streaky brown.
Hundreds of mustard yellow aphids cluster on a milkweed leaf. Aphids reproduce asexually, females produce generations of females without mating (parthenogenesis). All of the aphids on the milkweed are probably female and direct descendants of other females on the leaf.
And an immature Bald Eagle circling over Bunker Farm this morning caused great concern to - and generated a lot of noise from - a chicken. The eagle went off hungry.
John
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| Brown-hooded Owlet Moth caterpillar |
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| Aphids |
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| Aphids |
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| immature Bald Eagle |
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