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Watching Bees and Butterflies at Medicine Creek Road
Sadly not a monarch but a worn California tortoiseshell on purple milkweed.
On Memorial Day, May 25, I made the long drive down to the North Umpqua to check out the population of purple milkweed (Asclepias cordifolia) along Medicine Creek Road 4775. I was a little disappointed to find it was just starting to open. I think the cool weather of late had slowed things down because Big Pine Opening was at about the same stage weeks ago, and although it is lower elevation, it is also much farther north. But although the milkweed wasn’t attracting many insects, there were plenty of plants that were.
A silver-spotted skipper was one of many insects nectaring on silverleaf phacelia.