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Deanna
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Army brat, court reporter, native plant gardener. Create some habitat!
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Sep 9
A lot of times I think about how we could be just farting around as Vonnegut said we were put on this Earth to do and instead we chose this.
#Ennui
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · 4d
We wouldn’t know about it to laugh at if he’d retire like he should.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · 16d
#GardenReport #NativePollinator #NativeGarden
I found what I think is a buckeye butterfly pupa.
A butterfly pupa disguised to resemble pine tree bark hangs from a branch.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · 17d
#GardenReport #NativeGarden #PollinatorReport #Pollinators
A native praying mantis looks cheekily at the camera over the edge of a pink zinnia bloom. A native hover fly on a field aster. A parasitic fly on a field aster. A praying mantis feasts on a buckeye butterfly.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · 20d
A hit dog hollers.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · 25d
They really messed up by not using the Jetsons flying vehicle noise.
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ubergod.bsky.social @ubergod.bsky.social · 26d
My mother took Tylenol PM and now I only have autism at night.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Sep 20
#GardenReport My first native praying mantis sighting! Monarchs are emerging from chrysalises 🥰
A mottled gray praying mantis hunting on boneset. A green chrysalis with gold spots hangs in a crabapple tree. The same chrysalis a few days later. It’s is now transparent and the monarch’s wings are visible. It is partially open at the top. Yours truly with another hatched monarch pumping her wings.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Sep 19
Welcome to Delaware!
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Sep 12
My kid with disabilities did her homework without help because I was busy in a trial and got a 100 all by herself.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Sep 9
A lot of times I think about how we could be just farting around as Vonnegut said we were put on this Earth to do and instead we chose this.
#Ennui
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Sep 5
That or absolute unit. Maybe it’s case specific.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Sep 5
I felt like this year the monarchs were super excited to find milkweed but I only started this garden two years ago so I don’t have a lot yet. Hoping it doubles in size again next year.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Sep 5
I just looked out the window and one stand of milkweed is completely denuded. I hope they had enough to form pupas. 🤞🏼
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Sep 3
#GardenReport #NativeGarden #MonarchButterfly
We had a small tragedy in the chaos garden. One of the monarch caterpillars didn’t make it.
A monarch butterfly pupa or chrysalis with a black substance seeping out of it. The same pupa some time later. There is less of the black substance seeping out. I thought she might make it. The same pupa some time later. Still bright green, so transformation was not complete. There is a large opening in the bottom where the black substance was. The opening is rimmed in the black substance.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Sep 3
Love my Nissan Ariya for a multitude of reasons.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Aug 29
I honestly didn’t know it was a native. Never seen one before this year.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Aug 29
He was drinking on that bush almost the whole day. Guy had a rough time. I’m glad I could give him a little soft landing 🥰
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Aug 29
Here’s a better picture. I think a swallowtail.
Very scarred, tattered, faded butterfly.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Aug 29
Here’s a guy I saw in my yard.
A tattered butterfly on some blooms.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Aug 25
Where are all the 2nd Amendment humpers? Now finally the time!
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Aug 25
Who is doing all this flag burning? Where is it a crisis? What is even going on.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Aug 24
New camera!
#MacroPhotography
#NativePlants
#Pollinators
A swallowtail butterfly who looks like he had Been Through It. His wings are tattered. A monarch caterpillar munches on milkweed. A ladybug sitting on a black-eyed Susan’s flower petal. A hover fly alights on milkweed.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Aug 22
Monarch butterflies getting busy in the garden! Great day in the morning! #GardenReport #NativeGarden #PollinatorPower #NSFW #ViewerDiscretion
A female Monarch butterfly drinks from a clover flower. She has a male attached to her rear end. A female Monarch butterfly drinks from a clover flower. She has a male attached to her rear end. A female Monarch butterfly drinks from a clover flower. She has a male attached to her rear end.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Aug 23
#GardenReport #BloomScrolling #NativePlants #Pollinators
An Eastern tailed-blue butterfly resting on a blade of grass. A ligated burrow bee on a partially open coreopsis bloom. A male monarch drinking from a zinnia. A snowberry clearwing moth rests on a blazing star stalk.
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Deanna @speedbudget.bsky.social · Aug 22
Monarch butterflies getting busy in the garden! Great day in the morning! #GardenReport #NativeGarden #PollinatorPower #NSFW #ViewerDiscretion
A female Monarch butterfly drinks from a clover flower. She has a male attached to her rear end. A female Monarch butterfly drinks from a clover flower. She has a male attached to her rear end. A female Monarch butterfly drinks from a clover flower. She has a male attached to her rear end.
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