Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Wasps on Mountain Mints

Wasps are carnivorous, at least at their larval stage. Adults take nectar, and tiny-flowered Mountain Mints/Pycnanthemum are gushing founts of nectar. (There were also bees, flies, beetles, true bugs, and butterflies on these patches of M-mint at Bush Terminal and Green-Wood.)

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