Tag: my stuff

The butterflies love this Siam Weed bush.
The biggest ones are the migrating monarchs. The slightly smaller ones are queens who mimic the monarchs. The little brown and orange ones are snouts, who are roaming through the area because somewhere got too crowded and they’re looking for new spaces. There’s also a painted lady and a red admiral in there somewhere.
[description: a video moving back and forth over a large patch of a bush with small, blue, pom-pom like bunches of flowers, occasionally zooming in. At least 20 butterflies of varying types are fluttering about and landing on the flowers. Someone in the background is sarcastically pointing out that the butterflies might like this bush.]

Bad photo because it’s cloudy outside and therefore I can’t get any natural light, but I made a tiny paludarium- basically a hybrid of an aquarium and a terrarium. This one’s in a 6" wide bowl meant to hold candles. Pretty sure water and plants are, like, the opposite of candles.
The water portion is mostly full of Java moss and a single Java fern. The land portion, which is contained in a bag made of Hygrolon (a plastic mesh designed to wick water), is made of peat moss and full of bladderwort. The bladderwort hasn’t sent up any new leaves yet, but it should soon.