Link to egg-masses seen on Rocky River, and which had me foxed, until now: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176475778
On Asclepias syriaca.
Accompanied by a Monarch Butterfly.
"What?"
"I didn't do it."
This little rabbit, and its mother, have taught me what rabbits (Eastern Cottontails at least) do not eat:
Agavaceae
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Favorite foods:
Crassulaceae
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Also on the menu:
Cactaceae (when not too well guarded by spines - thus the spines, I presume)
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I adore the rabbits in the garden, so have no worry in that regard.
On Sagittaria lancifolia.
3 slightly different morphologies of the frond tip of Pteridium aquilinum pseudocaudatum in the same colony.
Volunteer seedling last year.
Evergreen through winter (18F).