Slender Gerardia is opening its first flowers. This species is said to favor dry woods and fields. I find it along sandy river banks and in old parking lots and gravel pits.
A dagger moth caterpillar - probably that of the Splendid Dagger Moth - posed motionless on a willow twig.
John
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| Slender Gerardia |
| Splendid Dagger Moth caterpillar |
| Splendid Dagger Moth caterpillar |

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