More photos from Monday's walk on the Cascade Trail. Above there's an acrobatic pair of Dimorphic Flower Longhorn Beetles mating while hanging beneath a blooming daisy while a related species, the Velvet Flower Longhorn Beetle watches from above.
There are blooming Checker Bloom everywhere, and I have plenty of photos of them, but this trio caught my eye as they are partly hidden behind tall stems of Western Bracken Fern.
I was curious why this butterfly chose the wilting flower right next to a fresher-looking one. Insects detect many smells/tastes/etc. that we cannot, so what's visually appealing to us is usually irrelevant to them.
It was fun watching this Velvet Flower Longhorn try to get into the disk flowers of a daisy that wasn't quite ready to bloom.
Two different species of longhorn beetles competing for a meal.
A new species for me, the Tomcat Clover,
Trifolium wildenovii. Looks similar to the many species of
Trifolium found on Table Mountain, but it looked different from an I'd seen before.
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