On June 15, 2015, there were several moths that came to the porch light that were various shades of green. These two look like they are both the same species:
These small brown mushrooms were photographed on August 31, 2014. This was a couple of years ago, before I really started considering posting plants and fungi on these pages, so these photos are not all that they could be. The mushrooms were growing in the trail through the woods, which had been ripped down to bare ground and had a lot of wood pieces ground into it when the loggers came through a few years back[1]. Whatever kind of fungus they are, we have a lot of them around.
If this moth from the porch light on June 13, 2015 isn’t a Pale Metanema, Metanema inatomaria, it is certainly a dead ringer for it. I only got pictures of it in one pose and from one angle because it was in an awkward position for looking at it from another direction, but I think this picture is good enough to be worth leaving it full-sized (you can click on this to see it larger).
Here’s another flowering plant from my plant-photographing expedition on August 19, 2015. Specifically, the one in the foreground with the white blossoms[1]. I believe this is Yarrow, Achillea millefolium.
On August 30, 2015, I was prying open nearly-ripe Queen Anne’s Lace seed-heads looking for caterpillars for last Saturday’s post. And I found that they didn’t always contain caterpillars. Sometimes they contained little true bugs like this one, about 5 mm long.
This is another common plant that flowers almost continuously from mid-summer all the way into fall (these pictures are from August 19, 2015, which was getting near the end of their blooming season). It is “Queen Anne’s Lace”[1] (or, more prosaically, wild carrot), Daucus carota
This black-and-white moth came to the porch light on June 15, 2015. Well, not entirely black-and-white, it has bluish-gray highlights and brown edging on the dark region that are kind of attractive.
This was another one that was findable with the Google Image Search/BugGuide combination: it is the White-Ribboned Carpet Moth, Mesoleuca ruficillata
The tansies (the upright plants in the foreground with the yellow, buttonlike flowers) are duking it out with the goldenrod and the wild peas to take over large portions of our property, as can be seen in this photo from August 19, 2015.
Dirty-white moth with dark head – Agonopterix atrodorsella
Sam found this little moth unusually early in the spring, on April 21, 2015. It was in our bathroom, of all places (which has no windows to the outside, so it wouldn’t seem like the most likely place to find moths. But there you are.)
Our Department Coordinator at work brought in this enormous fungus fruiting body on August 20, 2015. The top of the counter it is on is about 18 inches wide, so this thing is getting close to two feet across.
