Sandrose Mallow (Anisodontea scabrosa).
This was a volunteer at our house-before-last. The flowers are about the size of a dime. #SoTiny
I do many "sweeps" of the swimming pool each day to rescue insects. Tonight, just at dusk, I rescued about a dozen newborn praying mantises! #SoTiny #BeKind
Saw this Dainty sulphur (Nathalis iole) beauty on the volunteer Spanish needle in the yard. A lifer for me! #SoTiny
Teeny tiny, itty bitty Monarch caterpillar. Push pin for scale. #SoTiny #MonarchRanch #PlantMilkweed
Teeny tiny, itty bitty Monarch caterpillar. Push pin for scale. #SoTiny #MonarchRanch #PlantMilkweed
The Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden. Lots of Sulphur butterflies flitting through, along with native bees, and I even saw one of my favorite tiny butterflies, a Western pygmy blue! North America's smallest butterfly. This one was especially small, no bigger than my pinkie fingernail. #SoTiny
A Monarch butterfly egg on Asclepias curassavica. (The egg is the oblong off-white thing in the bottom left quarter of this photo). #SoTiny
#MonarchRanch #PlantMilkweed
Marine blue (Leptotes marina). #SoTiny
This is how small newborn Monarch caterpillars are. That's my thumbnail for scale. #SoTiny #MonarchRanch #PlantMilkweed
From the archives on this date seven years ago. Western pygmy blue butterfly (Brephidium exilis). I was always so thrilled to see one. It is the smallest butterfly in North America and one of the smallest on the planet. #SoTiny #Lepidoptera #butterfly
Can you spot the hummingbird nest that was on one of the old elm branches at the house-before-last, in photo 1? That was the first time I had ever seen one, so I watched to make sure it wasn't occupied and in use, then I drug out the ladder to get a peek up-close #SoTiny
Teeny-tiny hours-old Monarch caterpillar. If a leaf on a plant I bought as food for caterpillars had an egg on it, I removed it, then pin down the leaf 2 keep from curling up as it died. I would place fresh leaves in the container and hope that the egg hatched. #SoTiny #MonarchRanch #PlantMilkweed
Kitten update:
Mama has been back and has eaten two helpings of food and half a can of tuna, also drank some water. But now, she has decided one kitty should be inside a large tire and the other 2 across the garage on towel we put out. I will attempt to weigh all three tomorrow. #SoTiny
Inornate pyrausta moth (Pyrausta inornatalis). I have only ever seen this species twice. This was the first time. My wrist/arm for scale. It was so beautiful! #SoTiny #PinkMoth #MothWeek
A newborn Monarch caterpillar and a ladybird beetle for scale. #SoTiny. #MonarchRanch #PlantMilkweed
Grasshopper #SoTiny
Seedpod and the tiny flowers of Epilobium parviflorum, commonly known as the hoary willowherb or smallflower hairy willowherb, is
a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the Onagraceae family.
#California #NativePlant #SoTiny
#SoTiny
Marine blue (Leptotes marina) nectaring on milkweed.
My original post said: Tiny finch crashed into the window....Right in front of me. Stunned, but was breathing. I held it until it gathered itself, and it flew off safely. #BeKind
#SoTiny #BirdsMatter #BirdRescue #BeKind
Memories of a caterpillar round up day at our little #MonarchRanch. There's at least one tiny Monarch caterpillar on each of these Milkweed leaves. #SoTiny
Can you find the Western pygmy-blue butterfly. #SoTiny. Answer will be in a reply to this post.
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My finger looks #creepy and #weird next to this lil bitty #morel jewel๐คฃ๐คฃ. I squeeeed for real when I saw it. #Sotiny #Socute ๐ฅฐ๐ #Newengland
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#nature #morels #forager #woods #fungifriends #mushrooms #outdoors #mushroomforaging #mushroomsky #dailyshroom #mushroomist
Statistically speaking I'm better at MH:Wilds than you.
Cuz statistically you've probably never played it.
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#monsterhunterwilds #monsterhunter #monsterhunterstream #smallstreamer #thesmallest #sotiny
www.twitch.tv/w_for_andre
Hydro pets!!! Only two weeks old ๐๐๐งก๐ฉท๐๐ค๐ฉต
#seamonkeys #hydropets #shrimp #sotiny
Spot the tiny, angry bird & tell me it was worth risking my eyeballs ๐
#birdwatching #AnnasHummingbird #SoAngry #SoTiny