Monday, January 2, 2012

10: mistaken identities

for several years we have assumed that these seedpods belonged to some Morning Glory vines, the bane of our existence in our garden area:


Honeyvine Milkweed, Ampelamus albidus

however, we apparently have two different vines~ Bindweed/Morning Glory and Milkweed, to which this pod belongs.

also, we thought the insect was a Box Elder Bug, but it is actually the very similarly colored Milkweed Bug.

2 comments:

  1. We have the milkweed vine at our house, too. An aunt is big into monarch butterflies, otherwise I would never have realized milkweed comes in a vine version. The flowers are not much to look at but smell divine.

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  2. So glad you have found your 365 groove! Being able to get your bio and photo jive on together is heavenly.

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