The Ubiquitous Snout is Back

Many Austinkites may wonder what butterflies they are running down with their great vehicles. Those butterflies cloggng the roadways are snouts. Or, for the chauvinistic, American Snout. The snouts are everywhere south of the dammed river, kazillions of them. Please drive carefully.

This snout decided to enjoy the Solidago canadensis that some reference also as Solidago altissima. Praise the Goddess, there is plenty of goldenrod at the CB.

These maybe dance flies or shooflys or whatever they are, like it too. The fact is, at the nonce this picture was taken these not so famous flies are the most common insects at the CB.

Finally, for anyone who has pondered, Which fly might make a good pet? Well, this one, Villa sp. would make a good pet. The fact is, this bee fly will sit on your finger. It does not mind getting poked. It is practically tame.

Mercy. So much is happening in terms of insects. Those dern milkweed caterpillars totally ate the CB Asclepias oenotherioides they were on. I mean, like it's totally gone just like those yellow aphid vermin. Gone! Well, not all of it. All the action was on flowering specimens. Two strictly leafy specimens were not attacked, eaten.