PrettyTiny Film Company Pic-A-Week **2026**! (#39, Sept. 23)

[Alliecat]

Yes the numbers fluctuate and I don't hear how many the butterfly-gardening lady gets on average, but, maybe 30some? or more... this year she had 15, of which I got 3. Her milkweed was noticeably un-chewed. I haven't heard how the population overall is doing yet; there's usually an update now & then, and will be once the season's tagging info is in.
Insects & birds (especially birds) are down across the continent, I think Some bird populations are tanking. If you poison their food with pesticides and pave over their habitat and cut down all the trees, who's surprised?

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My ascocentrum doesn't bloom every year; not sure how to coax it to do so. It's been ages since the last flowers, it seems. Here's Miki to show it off. I wish the flowers lasted -- they are so short-lived.