It's apparent at this time of year that the ratio of brown to green along our roadsides is increasing rapidly. What is not so obvious, if you don't get out of your car, is the tremendous increase in the variety and numbers of bugs that are visiting the few remaining species of blooming flowers. Some are storing up food energy for their last mating rituals before winter. I published an article many years ago about this phenomenon titled "One Last Fling." It was mostly about dragonflies, damselflies, crane flies, and wood wasps. Yesterdays roadside attractions included a whole different set of bugs. Click on any photo for a larger view as well as a caption in the upper left corner. We should see another few weeks of this intense insect activity. I'm still checking the showy milkweeds constantly and still haven't seen any Red Milkweed Beetles. :( The first five photos of Gumplant were taken at a turn-out on Highway 89 about a mile south of the Taylorsville T. The rest were taken near the Greenville Y. Alphabet soup anyone?
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