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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Goatsbeard and pollinators

Aruncus dioicus
The Goatsbeard is in bloom, and attracts all sorts of little flies and other pollinators.  Such as a good dozen Virginia Ctenucha.  (I'm tempted to say there were ten Ctenucha.)

I did not know the name of this moth... had to Google images and track it down.  
 Below is more of a view of the bed.  Note the golden leaved Aralia Cordata 'Sun King.'   And in the right foreground is a very happy seedling of a Shagbark Hickory, Carya ovata.  About three years old now.