tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662118368553266438.post2144455170510109440..comments2024-03-22T20:11:44.673-04:00Comments on Saratoga woods and waterways: Binge-botanizing With the Best Kind of BuddiesJacqueline Donnellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13390548854179921303noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662118368553266438.post-32135750101431136662016-08-13T10:35:23.346-04:002016-08-13T10:35:23.346-04:00Once again your blog comes through to help me iden...Once again your blog comes through to help me identify something I've just seen (or, as it so often turns out, being north of you, I'm about to see). I came across some water marigolds a few days ago--really astounding plants! For what it's worth, poking around about them now I see some sources classifying them as Megalondonton beckii, some as alternatively Bidens or Megalondonta, and <a href="http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/plants/plantid2/descriptions/megbec.html" rel="nofollow">one saying they were formerly Bidens, now Megalondonta</a>. Anyway, I appreciate immensely the resource you provide here; thanks so much!<br /><br />By the way, when you were talking about hummingbird clearwing moths a while ago I had meant to ask whether you're seeing them more frequently than you used to. I had never seen one around here (central Ontario) until last year, and this year I'm seeing lots. Could just be that having noticed one once, now I'm primed to see them! Another thought, though--I've read that their caterpillars feed on honeysuckles, so I wonder whether the spread of invasive honeysuckles is helping to spread hummingbird moths ... in any event, the two places I've mainly seen them are each within a hundred feet of some kind of honeysuckle (native bush honeysuckles in one place and Asian invasives in another).Matthew Kinghttp://birdsbeesblooms.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662118368553266438.post-10409119444308571922016-08-12T22:01:21.908-04:002016-08-12T22:01:21.908-04:00What a wonderful botanizing weekend. My first int...What a wonderful botanizing weekend. My first introduction to being a 'naturalist' was a weekend up the Bruce Peninsula run by the Federation of Ontaio Naturalists. I was 14, and I was so inspired by meeting the botanists who were the leaders. There's just something special about getting together with other naturalists. Sounds like you had a great time.The Furry Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485265576983125216noreply@blogger.com