walking home, July 3

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Asiatic lily.





Daylily.





Here's that nice golden rain tree again.





Loving the coneflowers. Interested to discover the same sort of green-with-black&white bee again. I've only ever seen these bees on coneflowers, and they are the only insect I've seen on coneflowers.

Interesting.

I don't remember ever seeing these bees before this year. The green is the same as that of the emerald ash borers who have killed all of our ash trees. I am wondering if this bee is another evil interloper..................

Update, July 9 -- according to www.whatsthatbug.com this is "a Green Metallic Bee or Halictid Bee in the genus Agapostemon." Now you know.







This is a different flower (half-way down the block), and I guess I don't know if it's a different bee. The first time we looked at a coneflower with one of these bees, it was very near my house, and these are very near my office.....





We will now take a few minutes to study the persimmon proto-fruits.

Of course we enjoy the chartreuse of the newly-fallen, but look at the nice red-brown of the older ones. Nice.





Excellent shapes, too.







Did you notice the ants in the previous? Here's a close-up. I wonder why this particular fruit is more inviting than the rest.... (These are the only ants I notice in any of these pics.)







I'm thinking that persimmons would count as "messy trees"...........



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