Nature’s miracles!

Caterpillars lined up on a leaf to thwart predators. The sophistication, complexity, and sensitivity of nature is unimaginable, and way beyond the understanding of lowly mankind.

Caterpillars I found on an elm seedling. Why do they do this? I’m pretty sure nobody knows, and before humans eradicate life on earth, it would be nice to first unravel some of the mysteries. Maybe after we do that, humans will have more respect for nature and ALL the creatures that share time and space with us.

A butterfly digging deep for a stomach full of sweet nourishment.

Swallowtail butterfly playing hide and seek on Asclepias tuberosa this summer at the nursery.

We were splitting wood this summer and found this pupating insect, name unknown. Look closely and you’ll observe sophistication and ingenuity on a level uncommon. How? Why? Who? How many millions of years to evolve??? I couldn’t find the answer to these questions despite emailing scientists.

This song was written by Crosby, Stills, and Nash to describe love loss but it’s message can be applied to the monarch butterfly’s pending extinction too.

When we no longer see these beautiful creatures meandering and fluttering around our summertime gardens, the selfish and unknowing will wonder why.

​A minority of others will know why.

Link to article:

​https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/15/monarch-butterfly-denied-protection/

Also this month- just one more of dozens of assaults on the environment, tRUMP again refuses to do what he needs to do before it’s too late for yet another endangered species:

Link to this article:

​https://abcnews.go.com/US/government-refusal-protect-wolverines-sparks-lawsuit-conservation-groups/story?id=74736638&cid=clicksource_4380645_9_mobile_web_only_headlines_headlines_hed

TRUE TO FORM, and entirely predictable, tRUMP refused to agree to a ban on using murderous mile-long drift nets off California’s coast. These nets trap EVERYTHING in them, drowning all mammals, turtles, and non-target fish analogous to using dynamite in the ocean. Kill everything and pick out of the pile of dead bodies the fish you want to sell and discard all the other forms of life. THANKS, tRUMP:

Link to article (you know it’s bad when it ends up in the Connecticut post):

​https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Trump-vetoes-Calif-fishing-bill-over-seafood-15840519.php?src=rdctppolitics

Asclepias incarnata, “swamp milkweed,” the one plant a monarch butterfly can spend its entire life on.

200 Asclepias incarnata evolving into plants this winter inside our greenhouse. Some Americans do what they can to support the environment and tRump does what he can to destroy our environment. Who will win? Where is the outrage???? Why don’t most Americans care more?

Additional article summarizes just a few tRUMPIAN assaults:

Link to article:

​https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/5-ways-trump-attacking-environment-his-way-out-door#

tRUMP’s full on assault on the environment continues right up until his pathetic self gets dragged out of DC in a straight jacket:

Oh, tRump isnt done destroying our environment on his pathetic skulking out the back door of the White House. He has JUST put more nail in the Spotted Owl’s coffin. GO AWAY DOTARD!!!

link to article:

​https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.opb.org/article/2021/01/13/northern-spotted-owl-critical-habitat-slashed/%3foutputType=amp