Life in the milkweed patch

Over the summer, I have been checking out the milkweed patches close by.  The abundance of small, interesting creatures that dwell there has provided me with hours of quiet entertainment.

I had never seen this red bug before.

 

 

 

 

 

From far away, this looked like a mosquito; but up close, it looks like something else.

Monarch butterfly catterpillar.  I had to look up which end is the head.

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything gets accomplished."

Lao Tzu