2004-05-30

Missouri Countryside

Pictures of the Missouri countryside. These pictures taken over the April to May 2004 in a newly planted garden of native plants. When the plants get to settling in to their new home I'll be posting shots of the larger garden as a whole.

A monarchch caterpillar eating the fleshy, fuzzy pinkish flower buds of a milkweed plant. The caterpillar is striped with a repeating pattern: yellow, black white, black, yellow.

Monarch caterpillar

Two bright blue damselflies mating. One perched on the other which is perched on a plant stem.

A pair of mating damselflies. The blue river damsel, Pseudagrion microcephalum.

A small, golden colored butterfly is standing on a pinkish green leaf, facing the camera

A Zabuon skipper butterfly perched on a leaf

A mushroom has grow though a layer of thick green moss. The stem is mostly cream colored and the cap ranges in color from cream to pink. It is covered in creamy colored flakes or chunks.

Amanita rubescens growing through the moss of the woodland floor.

A white flower with pink spots. The flower is bee balm and has a rounded green head. The flower petals grow in a ring around the side of the green head. The white flower petals face outward with a larger flat petal on the bottom, a thinner more circular tube grows from the top and curves up and outward. At the center of this is a white filimant which is tipped at the end with a brown anther.

Beebalm: a favorite food source of butterflies, bees and hummingbirds,

A very small box turtle. It's shell is covered in dirt and it is sitting on the forest floor with slightly blurred small green leaves in the foreground and background.

Little Box Turtle

An orange butterfly with a patten of black and white spots

Great Spangled Fritilary collecting nectar from a Purple Conflower