Wonderful Great Whites

Karen Schuster sent this photo taken at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area of a male great southern white butterfly (Ascia monuste) on common beggarticks (Bidens alba), a favored nectar source. The yellowish marking on the hindwing is indicative of the…

Scarlet letter?

In the classic novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne writes, "It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track". The scarlet "letter" at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area entrance is the beautiful blossoming…