6-20 Queen Anne's Lace, Swamp Milkweed Beetle, Canada Thistle

6-20 Wild Carrot, AKA Queen Anne's Lace or Bird's Nest, is dotting dry fields and waste places with flat topped umbels of white flowers.

A Swamp Milkweed Beetle was feeding unsurprisingly on Swamp Milkweed.

Canada Thistle is described in my field guide as "a bad weed of pastures and waste places." Creeping underground stems make it a hard plant to eradicate. John