Look at the Season's Main Events
Source: Virginia Barlow
Fourth Week of July
The lovely blue flowers of chicory, a non-native plant often found along roadsides, is more often appreciated than scorned. The dried, ground roots are a coffee substitute and the flowers feed many insects.Queen Anne's lace will grow to more than five feet tall if on rich, moist soil.
Most moths prefer to fly at night. Not so the hummingbird clear wing moth. Like its namesake, it visits flowers and hovers.
Young nighthawks and whippoorwills are flying.
First Week of August
Monarch adults are not only found on milkweed; they will visit red clover, thistles, and sunflowers, as well.Live-bearing female garter snakes spend much of the day basking, incubating their developing young at between about 84 and 90 degrees.
Spring peepers have absorbed their tails and are adjusting to life on terra firma. Now they are about one-quarter of an inch long; they will still be small at maturity, reaching just 1.5 inches in length.
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