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Tag: Phoenix
Curve-billed thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre), Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Curve-billed thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre), Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Antipodean oddities: Giant starfish plant (Stapelia gigantea), a native of southern Africa, at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona. This plant produces foul-smelling flowers. Fly pollinators are attracted to the putrid odor. In the bottom photo a common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) is offering its services to the plant.
Antipodean oddities: Giant starfish plant (Stapelia gigantea), a native of southern Africa, at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona. This plant produces foul-smelling flowers. Fly pollinators are attracted to the putrid odor. In the bottom photo a common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) is offering its services to the plant.
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Agave victoriae-reginae – the Queen Victoria agave – at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
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Agave victoriae-reginae – the Queen Victoria agave – at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
Small milkweed bug (Lygaeus kalmii) on desert milkweed (Asclepias subulata).
This one was at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, but seriously, they are not hard to locate. Find the milkweed, find the bug, everywhere. They are absolutely everywhere.
Small milkweed bug (Lygaeus kalmii) on desert milkweed (Asclepias subulata).
This one was at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, but seriously, they are not hard to locate. Find the milkweed, find the bug, everywhere. They are absolutely everywhere.
Your Daily Dasher.
Blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis ♂), Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
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