Okay photoshoppers and deepfakers, you have your mission.
I’m unclear on which one was supposed to replace Nicole Kidman; I leave that up to you.
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Kiddo was watching our backyard hummingbird feeder and mused aloud, “It’s a good thing hummingbirds are so small. Otherwise we’d be in trouble.”
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That was great!
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Oh yes, they are territorial and vicious little bastards. I still like 'em
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I think the field guide refers to hummingbirds as “pugnacious.” They’re neither docile nor timid. Hummingbird flew right up while I took these:
Black swallowtail, I believe 
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And some monarchs 
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I have a lot of milkweed that appeared in one section of my yard a couple years ago, but I have yet to see any monarch (or other) caterpillars on it. Any idea if I bought some monarch eggs next year and “seeded” them onto the plants, would they survive?
The bees and other buzzing pollinators love the blossoms, which is nice too.
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I didn’t know that was possible… it took at least a year or two before I noticed any larvae in my yard. This year there’ve been more adults. There’s a newer patch where I haven’t noticed any, yet.
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As mentioned above, hummingbirds can be bastards!
ETA this guy spends a lot of time perched in the bush about foot and a half under the feeder just waiting to sneak attack the others.
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Dine-in I take it?
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I have no idea why am I posting this… Helsinki, Finland yesterday.
Reminds me of this wristwatch “At the President’s Pleasure” by Svend Andersen Geneve, “Eros, No. 138” (sold for HKD 264,000) NSFW:
https://catalog.antiquorum.swiss/en/lots/svend-andersen-lot-237-69
Remember he’s a war criminal and alleged rapist.
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We’re gonna be cleaning all the whiteboards in a 10 story building. This is about 1/10th of one floor. Counted 20 Whiteboards in this photo’s FOV. They’ve all been left to stain since early March.
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Someone’s watching…
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A blusterous sunrise.
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Skies.
No rain. One of the weather forecasting apps is guaranteeing rain for today, but I could have had the solar oven out.
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The wings on this (and relatively narrow waist) make me think it’s a wasp, but it’s otherwise the same size and shape of a bee. If it is a bee, it looks like a badass:
I might’ve guessed a carpenter bee, but I thought those were larger, and this had no discernible yellow on it at all. (Also no discernible hair/fur.)
This was in the same patch of milkweed where I took pictures of monarch larvae the other day; those have apparently moved off to pupate as they were quite large when I last saw one a couple of days ago. In fact, this one was moving off of the milkweed into the Japanese holly, which I don’t believe they’d otherwise care about, so maybe it left to go find its spot:
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