Small, dark, red beetle with a smooth and glossy black patch covering its elytra. It's on a tri-lobed leaf of passionflower.

Tiny clusters of light green flowers surrounded by showy sepals (bracts?) that are bright white with a green stripe down the midrib. It looks like a portrait of a cluster of four big flowers, but it's really a portrait of four clusters of about 20 tiny flowers. This is the Euphorbia species common known as Snow-on-the-mountain in the Great Plains.

Not exactly sure which skipper butterfly this is, but it's roughly triangular in shape and golden-yellow in color with big, dark eyes. Its antennae are spread laterally and its tiny proboscis is probing into one of maybe 100 narrow, pink flowers forming the spiky inflorescence of a tall thistle.

In my #pollinator patches this weekend where an acre of #Bermudagrass #lawn used to be: #PassionflowerFleaBeetle (#lifer beetle!), Snow-on-the-mountain, and a #skipper #nectaring on #TallThistle.

Plant #natives for #biodiversity! (Or don't; just don't cut 'em when you mow.)

This is Bella and this is The ONLY reason I miss snow 😂 I hate this grass. The other one likes to coat himself in said grass because he loves suffering from his allergies
#seniordog vs #bermudagrass

#Bermuda #grass #cynodon dactylon #watercolour #botanicalillustration by #sciart #naturalscienceillustrator Lizzie Harper with details of spikelet and ligules.

#Creepingbent #agroatisstolonifera #grass #watercolour #botanicalillustration by #sciart #naturalscienceillustrator Lizzie Harper with details of spikelet and ligules.

#Seashore #paspalum Paspalum vaginatum #grass #watercolour #botanicalillustration by #sciart #naturalscienceillustrator Lizzie Harper with details of spikelet and ligules.

Photo of 3 completed grasses botanical illustrations on my desk along with my paint box. The larger images don't include the painted text of latin and English names written below each species, which you can see in the photo.

Just finished these three #grasses #botanicalillustrations for a private client in Oman. There's nothing I enjoy more than illustrating grasses species;there's so much minute detail and variety in their spikelets, ligules, growth habits & color. #Bermudagrass, #Creepingbent & Shore #Paspalum #sciart

A photo of nothing but Bermuda grass in its kaki tan dormant phase.

Color and texture. That is pretty much all this weed is good for IMHO. #Grass #BermudaGrass #GolfCourse #photography

This Is When Bermuda Grass Goes Dormant In Each State and USDA Zone - The Bermuda Bible A common question in the space is "when does bermuda grass go dormant?".

Bermuda goes dormant anywhere the temperature produces frost, I think. But in lower states, zone 10, for example, it might keep growing all year. Zone 7 should be fine 🌱
Here's more information about #BermudaGrass and domancy
I've never grown it before myself, but now, you know I gotta try? 😉