Photo description: a cart overflowing with a prickly plant with some half-open purple-pink flowers, in an asphalt driveway.
Satisfying. Got rid of some invasive Cirsium vulgare, Bull/Spear Thistle. This thing was as tall as me.
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Close up of Butterfly Weed: bright orange flowers made up of many tiny clusters. On the right side is a wasp, on the left is a bumblebee. Some green plants are in the background.
In my front yard native plant meadow in Massachusetts.
Great Golden Digger Wasp, Sphex ichneumoneus
& Two-spotted Bumble Bee, Bombus bimaculatus
on Butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa.
Please ignore the lurking Big Leaf Lupine, Lupinus polyphyllus. I fucked up.
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