#starthistle

[noseysilverfox]

July 2025

In a wasteland among the stones, the yellow star-thistle (lat. Centaurea solstitialis) sees off July🌼

На пустыре среди камней провожает Июль василёк солнечный (лат. Centaurea solstitialis)🌼

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Bzzz!

Just some bees in my garden and in the fields and on a neighbourhood walk. :)

Featured bees include bumblebees (native), green sweatbees (native), honeybees (invasive), carpenter bees (native), and some I'm not sure about.

Featured flower hosts include bull thistles (invasive weed), rose of sharon (invasive), New England aster (native), cup plant (native), starthistle (not native), Nuttall's sunflower (native), purple coneflower (native), anise hyssop (native), white wood aster (native), swamp milkweed (native), sow thistle (invasive weed), creeping charlie (invasive), creeping thistle (invasive weed), wild rose (native maybe), wild bergamot (native), bride's feathers (native), bigleaf lupin (native maybe or invasive), and upright prairie coneflower "Mexican hat" (native species, but a cultivar).

All my photos, unedited. Don't mind the weirdness of the third last photo. It's my phone's "portrait" which I found out belatedly can have, uh, interesting results.

[piipstachio]

Hi ! I love your frog animation ! How much do you charge for animation commission ? Just a cute cat doing something cute like the frog ?

it would be around $50 per second :.) !

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 27 September 2017

Centaurea calcitrapa (star thistle, caltrap, mouse thorn) is a biennial or short lived perennial native to southern Europe, it produces prolific seeds and can be invasive of floodplains, dry forests, and grasslands. The plant thrives in a well-drained soil and can grow in areas of low nutrients and very alkaline conditions.

Jill Raggett

[teeteebeezie]

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loads of metallic #bees working the popping star thistle #StarThistle #Centaurea (at Allegheny River Trail)

[shavostars]

Loki and Waffles the Cat for Laine!

[richardarmitge]

where is the betty butterbuttocks interview from?

T4 Movie special of THE HOBBIT. HERE.

Some say Peter Jackson's wasn't elvish and Andy's not elvish too. I stand corrected. BUT STILL. What Richard Armitage said stood out.

[planchetts]

Hi vinaigrette! Thank you for your in depth post about Waffles! It was really helpful to read. He was born and raised in a house with like 40 cats and lots of dogs/chinchillas etc so he might have gotten it from one of them. He has been on Lycene which I heard is prescribed to control the herpes microbe reproduction. I will ask the vet about Herpes T_T

Lycene helps in most cases, but some cases are more resistant to it than others. There are other things that may help better. Unfortunately, you might have to just keep trying different things until something works.

I hope you can figure out what's wrong with him soon.