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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 16h

Native Plant Fest in Tulsa Saturday! I'm hoping to find some shrubs there. #nativeplants #oklahoma #tulsa #gardening 🌱

A decorative poster featuring goldenrod and bees for the Oklahoma Native Plant Network Native Plant Fest, Saturday Oct. 3, 2026 from 11 to 5 at Heirloom Rustic Ales in Tulsa, 2113 E. Admiral Boulevard. I plan to be there.

Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eastern Carpenter Bees stealing nectar from the Azure Sage. Their passionflowers aren't blooming a lot now that the weather is changing, so they have to make do. #bees #nativeplants #BlueTuesday 🌱 #gardening

The same bee, seen from behind grasping another salvia flower and drinking from the top of it. Her wings are a little frayed on the edges.

An extreme closeup of another carpenter bee drinking from a sage flower. The holes they make are usually hidden under the edge of the calyx.

A closeup of a Salvia azurea flower with some visible holes in it from carpenter bee feeding. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A pastel assortment of native perennials for #SixonSaturday. I thought the hibiscus were finished blooming, but the recent rains woke them up. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱

A collage of six flowers, left to right: white Frostweed, Verbesina virginica and potter wasp Eurodynerus pratensis; lavender Maypops, Passiflora incarnata; pink Swamp Rose Mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos; Azure Sage, Salvia azurea; Blue Mistflower, Conoclinium coelestinum; Mealycup Sage, Salvia Farinacea and a pink Pyrausta inornatalis, Inornate Pyrausta moth. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cute colorful snout moths in the garden. Coffee-loving Pyrausta Moth and Inornate Pyrausta Moth. #moths #gardening 🌱 #bugsky

A tiny moth with bright red wings accented with wavy yellow stripes and dots, sitting on the tip of a standing cypress leaf. It has a pointed snout and long antennae that sweep back over the wings. Pyrausta tyralis. The host plants are listed as Psychotria (wild coffee) which is rare, Bidens and Dahlias, and probably still-unknown plants.

A tiny bright coral pink moth rests on a mealycup sage flower. It has the same protruding snout, backswept antennae and pale legs as the Coffee-loving Pyrausta. Salvia farinacea is a host plant for the caterpillars. Pyrausta inornatalis. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Two leafcutter bees on the butterflyweed, and a tiny predator. I took this a few weeks ago, but the females are still active cutting the flowers. #twosday #bees #insects #gardening 🌱

A clump of orange milkweed flowers with two leafcutter bees feeding on it, male and female. Both bees have black bodies with pale gray hair on the thorax and abdomens with black and white stripes. The female at top has black eyes and thick scopal hairs to collect pollen on her belly. The male has green eyes, a face full of blond hair and forelegs covered in tufts of yellow hair that make them look like little crab claws. Megachile policaris. A tiny jagged ambush bug is visible at the bottom. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

These are Unexpected Cycnia Moths on the milkweed, and it's true that I wasn't expecting them. #nativeplants #insects #caterpillars #gardening 🌱

Two orange caterpillars covered in tufts of thick gray hair feed on leaves of Asclepias tuberosa. Half a firewheel flower, Gaillardia pullchella, is at the bottom of the frame. Cycnia collaris or inopinatus.

A closeup of the head of an Unexpected Cycnia moth caterpillar, which looks like two shiny burnt orange oval head capsules with the mouth at the bottom.

A milkweed leaf with a caterpillar on the back, its hair tufts sticking out around the edges. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Io moth caterpillar. I think this one is looking for a place to pupate because they eat tree leaves and it's checking out the Standing Cypress. The spines are venomous. #caterpillars #insects 🌱 #gardening #lepidoptera

A fat lime-green caterpillar with many branching thistle-like spines that are larger and denser on the head end, and long narrow stripes of red and white down each side, Automeris io. It is on the ground about to climb on the leaves of a Standing Cypress plant. There is a boneset seed clinging to its side.This caterpillar eats oaks, redbuds, hackberries, plums, and lots of other common trees and shrubs, and the moth is very pretty. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A Painted Lady on the boneset. A little sad because there haven't been nearly as many butterflies as last year, but glad this heat is about to end. It's supposed to be about 20 degrees cooler here next week. #butterflies #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

A Painted Lady butterfly drinks from white boneset flowers with wings folded upwards. The upper wing has blocks and bars of white, orange and red on a bark-brown background with a few tiny eyespots. The lower wing has a more muted pattern of soft warm browns, white and blue-gray overlaid with a lacy network of white veins, and a row of four small blue eyespots. The body and legs are white and tan, with white-tipped antennae. Vanessa cardui and Eupatorium altissimum. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Great Purple Hairstreak, my first sighting of this butterfly. The caterpillar's host plant is mistletoe. #butterflies #gardening #nativeplants 🦋 🌱

A Great Purple Hairstreak butterfly feeding on white boneset flowers with its wings closed. The dark gray undersides of the wings have a mauve cast in the light, but the name comes from the back of the wings, which are actually bright blue. The head and shoulders are black with white dots and the abdomen of the butterfly is blue on top and orange-red underneath, with small white and larger red spots along the base of the wings close to the body. There is a swath of brilliant iridescent blue showing along the bottom edge of the top wing, and the bottom wings have tips of black with iridescent green and blue blocks and swishy black hairstreak tails. This is the largest of the hairstreak butterflies, although still fairly small. The plant is Tall Boneset, Eupatorium altissimum. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trying to get in before opening time for breakfast. #bees #SundayYellow 🌱 #nativeplants

A yellow male American Bumblebee feeds on a closed purple passionflower that looks like a tight messy wad of string inside. He is a furry yellow bee with a black stripe between and beneath his dark wings and a black head. His legs have a reddish tinge and the hair on the last segment of his abdomen is tinged orange. Bombus pensylvanicus on Passiflora incarnata.

Now he is really digging in and his legs are sticking out sideways. Maypop flowers don't open up until afternoon.

Holding on tight with his face buried in the flower. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Accidentally hit the Object Identifier button on my phone and this is what it came up with. (Open to see caption.) #caterpillars

A picture of a Monarch caterpillar climbing up a flowering orange milkweed stem captioned "Clothespin".

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy Saturday. The frostweed planted last fall is starting to bloom. It's a really tough shade plant and a vital nectar source for Monarchs and other butterflies that migrate in late summer. Verbesina virginica is native in the southeastern US west to Oklahoma and Texas. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A long-horned bee on the Firewheels from a sunnier day this week. #bees #insects #gardening 🌱 #nativeplants #insectthursday

A male long-horned bee feeding on a red Gaillardia pulchella flower. He is a small be with thick golden hair on his face, shoulders and legs, green eyes, long antennae, and a black abdomen with faint stripes of white hair. The picture shows the whole flower and the bee's small size. It is probably Melissodes dentriventris, the Tooth-bellied Longhorn Bee. We know he is male because females have shorter antennae.

A closeup picture of the bee from the side.

The bee's face is long and covered with golden hair and grains of yellow pollen. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Carolina Mantis on the Maypops. She tried to grab four bees while I was watching, but they all escaped. Stagmomantis carolina. #insectthursday #mantids #gardening 🌱 #invertebrates #nativeplants

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some bumblebees hard at work for Labor Day. Bombus pensylvanicus. #bees #gardening 🌱 #nativeplants

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Great Golden Digger Wasp builds a nest with many chambers underground. She will carry a paralyzed grasshopper to each one and seal it in with one of her eggs attached. Sphex ichneumoneus. #WaspWednesday #wasps #insects 🌱

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

More plants from the garden. Blue Mist flower, Beautyberry, the second generation of Firewheels and Standing Cypress. #nativeplants 🌱

A cluster of Blue Mist flowers that look like little blue-purple pompoms made of string. The flowers are always a little more blue than they look in my pictures. Conoclinium coelestinum. These plants spread like wildfire if they're happy.

A closeup of a Beautyberry branch with rounded clusters of magenta-purple berries spaced along the stems and bright green leaves that sprout from the berry clusters. This was planted last autumn. Callicarpa americana.

Red and yellow Firewheels blooming in a brick-edged flowerbed with orange Butterflyweed. I planted these in mid-June from seeds taken from the first crop of flowers that bloomed in spring, after pulling the dead annual Winecups that were growing here before. Gaillardia pulchella.

A green plant rosette with finely divided leaves like a tiny cypress tree. This is a biennial that (I hope) will bloom next year with tall spikes of small red trumpet flowers all along the stems, for the hummingbirds. Ipomopsis rubra. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Leavenworth's Eryngo is an annual native to KS, OK, TX. This is my first year to grow it and all my plants seem to die just as they reach peak purple. I thought I'd better catch this last one to show you before it's gone. (Bonus spidey!) Eryngium leavenworthii. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

Looking down at the top of a plant with many spiky, intensely purple flower heads shaped like little pineapples. One pineapple houses a tiny white crab spider. The lower stem of this plant looks dead and crappy by the time it blooms, so it looks best sticking out of other plants that hide the bottom. I stratified the seeds in the fridge because my direct-sown seeds didn't sprout. My plants only got a few feet high, but I've seen pictures of very tall (6 foot) specimens. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Good morning, gardeners. I've been at my Mom's all week helping her after surgery, and now I gotta get back to work. Bee back soon.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Good morning! A new butterfly from my garden yesterday, Zebra Swallowtail. I didn't think I would ever see one here because I'm at the edge of their range and their host plant pawpaws supposedly isn't native to my county. Now I want a pawpaw. #sundayyellow #nativeplants #butterflies #gardening 🌱

A Zebra Swallowtail is perched on a tall sunflower overhead with its wings outspread. It is a large butterfly with an unusual shape like a wide V with very long tails on its lower wings, as long as its body. It is white with bold black vertical stripes on its wings. There are some small blue and red details but we can't see them from here.

The butterfly seen from below with wings held out wide to the sides. Eurytides/Protographium (new name) marcellus. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Happy weekend, everyone. When I first started my garden, I didn't realize I needed thistles, but luckily one moved in and showed me. It's a great plant for taking pollinator pictures because they really take their time there. Cirsium altissimum. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱 #butterflies #bees

Two black and yellow bumblebees are feeding on top of a purple thistle flower with a skipper butterfly that is perched on one side. Bombus pensylvanicus on Cirsium altissimum. I think the skipper is a Huron Sachem, Atalopedes huron.

Two large black and blue Pipevine swallowtail butterflies enjoying a thistle. Battus philenor. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some of my weirdo Firewheels for #PinkMonday. Gaillardia Pulchella. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

A grouping of Firewheel flowers that are missing their normal yellow color. Instead of being red shading out to yellow on the edges, they have dark pink centers with white edges.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

So I was standing there wondering, Is it too dark to take pictures of the Maypops? #hummingbirds #nativeplants 🌱

A hummingbird feeds from a passionflower, the light slanting in from the ẁest and illuminating the flower and bird. The hummingbird is a blur of wings except for her head and chest, which are stationary. Her feathers are green on top and palest gray underneath, and there is a streak of black from her bill to her eye.

Here the hummingbird has her back to the camera and has briefly landed on a vine. We see her green back feathers and short black tail with white tips.

She is hovering above the flower facing the sun. Ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

This is the first picture I took because I accidentally hit the focus and zoomed out, but the bird is surprisingly clear, though far away.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A Black Swallowtail on the thistle today. I'm happy because he's the first one I've seen in my garden. Papilio polyxenes. #butterflies #nativeplants

A male Black Swallowtail butterfly sits with wings outspread on a purple-pink thistle flower. His wings are black. We know he is male because of the prominent V-shaped band of yellow teardrops and ovals across all 4 wings. His wings are bordered with white dots and the bottom wings have a row of blue ovals between the yellow band and white spots. There is a small orange eyespot on the inner edge of each bottom wing but they are hard to see because the wings are close together.

Here we see him from one side with his wings folded back. The underside of the upper wing looks like the top with a row of yellow teardrops and white dots along the edge. The yellow oval shapes on the lower wing are orange on the undersides. The body of the butterfly is black with a row of white dots down his length.

Another view of the butterfly sitting on top of a thistle with his wings partly open. The flower is Tall Thistle, Cirsium altissimum.

Here he is sharing the thistle with a black and blue Pipevine Swallowtail on the right. Papilio polyxenes and Battus philenor. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The NPS has closed the road to Quitobaquito Spring, the only US habitat for 3 extremely rare animal species. This is a pretty big deal. Only way to get there now is a road through mountains that takes about 3 hours one way with a high clearance 4WD vehicle. www.nps.gov/orpi/planyou...

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Alerts & Conditions - Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Good morning. Instead of bugs and native plants, I thought you might like some pictures of Frankie from last weekend. #husky #dogs

A husky dog on a sunny day smiling with his head out the window of a white pickup, a boat being pulled behind it. (Seen in the side view mirror.)

Now he has his face looking forward pressed against the side of the truck.

Now Frankie has his face in the wind, cheeks bellied out to the sides. I don't let him ride the whole way like this because it's probably dangerous, but he loves it.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Two courting Pipevine Swallowtails on the first Tall Thistle, and a skipper trying to ignore them. #butterflies #gardening #nativeplants #flyday 🌱

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The super-annoying mating dance of the Fiery Skipper. #butterflies #gardening 🦋 🌱

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy Saturday, everyone. I wish I could say this is peak passionflower, but it's barely August. I've actually done a decent job of holding it back this year. Still waiting for the gulf frittillaries to show up. Maypops, Passiflora incarnata. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Taking a little siesta in the garden. Hibiscus Turret Bee in Swamp Rose Mallow. #nativeplants #bees #insectthursday

A closeup of a black bee with golden-yellow fur on his shoulders and head sleeping curled around the bottom of the stamen in a pink hibiscus flower. The flower petal underneath him has darker pink stripes radiating out from the center and is sprinkled with yellow pollen. Ptilothrix bombiformis and Hibiscus moscheutos.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Good morning. Some of the flowers from my garden. We're heading out to the lake today. #gardening #nativeplants #bees 🌱 #SixonSaturday

A collage of six flower photos: Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans) and katydid; Prairie Verbena (Glandularia canadensis) and Hoary Edge butterfly; Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos); Butterflyweed ( Asclepias tuberosa) and American Bumblebee; Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) and American Bumblebee; Maypops vine (Passiflora incarnata). Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A Clubbed Mydas Fly on the Slender Mountain Mint. They look like wasps, but can't sting and feed only on nectar. The larvae are predators of scarab beetle grubs. #flyday #gardening 🌱 #invertebrates #bugsky #nativeplants

A large black Clubbed Mydas fly feeds on the white-pink flowers of Slender mountain mint. It has a long segmented abdomen that curves in a "sting" posture with a wide band of bright orange under its wings. The tips of the antennae are clubbed like a butterflies, hence its name. Mydas clavatus on Pycnanthemum tenuifolium.

A picture of the mydas fly from above, showing the coppery-pink iridescence on the wings.

The fly has its wings spread slightly in a v shape so it looks more fly-like than waspy in this picture. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Last year I spotted a big beautiful Buttonbush at the lake, so I wanted to get a picture when I was there last week. Unfortunately, it doesn't look so hot because of all the flooding this year, but it is a good example of how much water they can tolerate. Cephalanthus occidentalis. #nativeplants 🌱

A large Buttonbush in front of a cloudy sky. The bottom six feet or so is covered with fresh bright green foliage, while a few longer branches sticking out of the top have larger, darker mature leaves and white spiky ball flowers on them.

The same plant from farther away. It is around twelve feet wide and eight feet tall with a lot of horizontal branching. In the background is a muddy lake and the opposite shoreline covered in trees. The surrounding plants are mostly dead and brown.

A photo of the shoreline beyond the buttonbush, showing a slope dotted with flat sandstone slabs and mostly brown (flooded) vegetation, as well as a few smaller buttonbushes with fresh green leaves. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a, Keystone Lake reservoir.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

July in my garden. It's hot as hell out there. My autofocus is broken so I haven't been taking as many pics lately, but I have a few. Still waiting for all the butterflies to show up this summer. IDs in alt text. #nativeplants #gardening #bugsky 🌱

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Tulsa Flyer @tulsaflyer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Oklahomans can apply for grants to build pollinator habitats at home Applications are open for grants to help Oklahoma gardeners buoy butterflies, boost bees and benefit birds.... tulsaflyer.org/2026/07/07/news/post…

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Oklahomans can apply for grants to build pollinator habitats at home

Applications are open for grants to help Oklahoma gardeners buoy butterflies, boost bees and benefit birds.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The False Bee-killer or white-tailed Robber Fly flies around spearing all kinds of flying insects with a sharp proboscis that is hidden under its loraxian facial hair, and then sucks out their juices. Larvae are also predators underground. Promachus bastardii. #insectthursday #gardening 🌱 #bugsky

A False Bee-killer sits on the edge of a pink hibiscus. It is a large insect with a long tapered abdomen, wings held folded on the back, and a bulky thorax. The face is covered with long silky blonde hair that mostly covers the sharp beak underneath.

Another bee-killer clinging to the side of a liatris flower.

A male robber fly, distinguished from the female by the white tips on its tail, clinging to penstemon seed pods.

Another fly resting on a stick with a honeybee speared on her face. She will fly around with it until she's finished eating.This is the only robber fly I have seen with prey, and I have read that they especially like honeybees. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Hello gardeners! Here's what's going on in my back garden. The heat is awful but most of the plants don't seem to mind. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sphex wasps on the Mountain Mint for Wasp Wednesday. Great Golden Digger Wasp and Great Black Wasp. #WaspWednesday #bugsky #insects #nativeplants

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

All the Swamp Rose Mallow are blooming now. Some of these plants are over ten years old, others just a year or two. Hibiscus moscheutos. #nativeplants #bloomscrolling 🌱 #gardening #pinkMonday

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

An American Snout. Supposedly they see swarms of snouts south of here, sadly I only see singletons. Libytheana carinenta. #butterflies #PollinatorWeek #gardening 🌱

An American Snout butterfly with wings folded up sits on a unique Black-eyed Susan with an extra tuft of petals coming from the center of the cone. The butterfly has a long snout that is actually the mouth, which opens out to the sides, and drooping antennae. It has wings wth jagged edges resembling dead leaves that are gray and tan on the underside, while the top of the wings are orange with black and white blocks along the top corners. I think this is a female since she seems to have six normal length legs, and males have very short legs, plus the front legs on males are so small it looks like they only have four.

A longer view showing the entire flower the Snout is sitting on and the green leafy background.

Snouts hardly ever sit with wings open, but here she flutters her wings so we can see the orange backs and her little curled tongue is also sticking out.

A more moody backlit view of the Snout. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A Two-Spotted Longhorn Bee from the garden. Melissodes bimaculatus. #bees #PollinatorWeek 🌱 #gardening #bugsky

A female Two-Spotted Longhorn bee clings to a cornflower bud. She is a black bee, about the size of a honeybee but a little more chunky, with thick ivory scopal hairs on her rear legs. There are blurry yellow coneflowers in the background.

Now she is rubbing her rear legs around her bottom to clean herself. You can see one of the small white rectangular spots on the end of her abdomen that the species is named for, which are only found on females. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

For Pollinator Week, a lineup of the some of the familiar bees that make their home in my garden. I have been adding native plants for them for three years. IDs in alt text. #PollinatorWeek #bees #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Tiny bees for tiny flowers. White Vervain, Verbena urticifolia. #tinyflowertuesday #nativeplants #bees #gardening 🌱

A very tiny bee perches on a flower spike of White Vervain, sitting on one open flower while drinking deeply with its face. Buried in the flower right above it. The slender bee is gunmetal gray with a haze of pale hairs all over. I don't know the species of any of these bees--they're too tiny.

A tiny reddish bee with stripes clings to a spray of white vervain flowers.

A more distant photo of a tiny metallic coppery bee flying towards white vervain flowers.

A picture of White Vervain growing in a raised bed, focusing on a large flower cluster. The flowers heads have many long green filaments coming from a central point that are dotted down the length with tiny white trumpet flowers that open in a scattered fashion, resembling delicate sparkler fireworks. The plants grow about 4-6 feet tall and have dark green foliage. Birds eat the seeds. This plant was a volunteer, and it's easy to start by winter-sowing in jugs. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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