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Put in orders before midnight to make sure sure that I’m able to get things packed for you in the morning. I won’t have anything for sale at those times – it’s only for handing off pre-purchased orders.

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You can place orders for these and plants, of course, at nobodynursery.square.site; select “store pickup” and email jo@nobodynursery.com to let me know that you’ll get then in Seabeck.

Hand-off can be at 11am or 3pm at the Seabeck Community Center parking lot; I’ll be around at both times. . . .

"The Peterson" for bluebird-size birds (above) and "The Adirondack" for chickadee-size birds (below)

A nest of chickadee eggs in a birdhouse

I have a half dozen bird houses in the online store for anyone interested in placing an order for pick-up in Seabeck tomorrow (Sat 2/28). You’ll find two “Adirondack” (chickadee-size birds) and four “Peterson” (bluebird-size birds).

Generally, extreme specialization is an evolutionary dead-end, but it can serve a species very well as long as their host plant is still around.

You can either be mediocre at eating lots of different things or super efficient at eating just one thing, and you don't really have to share if that one things is difficult to eat. If you eat easy stuff, your only option is to eat faster than the competition, and that can require reckless behaviors

Yeah! In addition to Delphinium nuttallianum, the dunes have Triteleia grandiflora, Linum lewisii, and Ladeania lanceolata.

Species profile sheet for Rumex crassus, with extensive info

Species profile sheet for Rumex venosus, with extensive info

Rumex crassus in bloom

For the west side of the state I have the wonderful Rumex crassus (fleshy willow-dock), which lives on the coast and is delighted to be in my gardens.

Comandra umbellata in bloom

Delphinium nuttallianum in bloom

. . . western WA climate for my comfort, though, so I will only sell them to folks east of the Cascades – shipping available through the online store.

Phlox longifolia in bloom

Purshia tridentata in bloom

. . . favorite species there is something that I currently have available in the nursery: Rumex venosus (winged dock). These beauties form colonies in sandy-to-gravelly soil, with big, succulent leaves and peach/rust colored flowers. This eastern WA native is too rambunctious in the . . .

Strymon melinus on a Fritillaria pudica blossom

Landscape view of the Juniper Dunes, grassy with scattered shrubs

Layia glandulosa in bloom

. . . are a surprisingly rich array of wildflowers and grasses – Fritillaria (yellow bells), Delphinium (larkspur), Phacelia, Balsamorhiza (balsam-root), Phlox, and fragrant Purshia (antelope brush). I’ll lead a hike there this spring, date TBD.

tinyurl.com/DuneTrotting

Probably my . . .

Screen shot of blog preview of "Dune-Trotting for Junipers", with photo of Phlox in bloom

Balsamorhiza careyana in bloom

Up now on the WNPS blog “Botanical Rambles” is a piece I wrote about an incredible spring destination: the Juniper Dunes Wilderness (Franklin Co, WA), only easily accessible for three months of the year. Among the scattered Juniperus occidentalis (western juniper) on these vegetated dunes . . .

Species profile of butterfly Euphyes vestris mardon, with photo

Slide with three sentences: "Flowers generally only support the very last phase of pollinator lifecycles / The best support for butterflies, moths, and other wildlife is a diversity of native foliage / Ecological information is limited, but best practices can be inferred from what is known"

. . . framework I’m going back to the beginning to re-collect all of the raw data in a manner that will provide me with an order of magnitude more nuance in my analytical/deductive model, and likely fine-tune it to the county level. I’ll probably need to do some self-study into coding.

Slide: "Examples of caterpillars the feed on Artemisia", with photos, range, hosts, and photo credits

Species profile of butterfly Polites mardon, with photo

. . . and Tom Doty gave a ribbiting demonstration on the burdens that we place on amphibians via infrastructure choices, and ways that we can create artificial pool/ponds to support them. I go on about 1:40.

As for my caterpillar data project, having established a solid organizational . . .

Four-quadrant chart with axes labeled "very/less aromatic" and "not/woody", with Artemisia species grouped by subgenera on the chart.

The same four-quadrant chart with axes labeled "very/less aromatic" and "not/woody", with nine moth/butterfly species listed in the quadrants

. . . (the evolutionary family tree) to draw deductions from the limited data available to date – all with the goal of guiding folks to the most ecologically-impactful plantings. And it’s fun.

tinyurl.com/KECFeb15

Dana Brisette also gave a generalized overview of native planting . . .

Zoomed out view of a very large spreadsheet

Taxonomic tree of select groups within tribe Anthemideae

. . . leads caterpillars to become narrowly specialized for feeding on a particular plant or group of plants. I then gave an overview of a project I’m working on to compile known and suspected relationships between Washington plants and caterpillars, and the way that I’m employing taxonomy . . .

Photo of lupine leaf with leaf miner tracks and the text: "It's a feature, not a bug."

Screen shot of spreadsheet cross referencing butterfly/moth and plant species

A week and a half ago I had the opportunity to contribute a brief talk at a Feb 15th Kistap Environmental Coalition event, which has been made available online. I discussed the profound ecological value of native foliage for caterpillars and the nature of the chemical arms race that often . . .

Remember when she vetoed that UNSC resolution condemning Israel's illegal West Bank settlements as a blatant violation of the Geneva Convention, and then negotiated the largest ever military aid package to Israel? She has no moral compass.

Reasonable to assume that you already have "Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies" on your shelf?

Moth Guides of North America PETERSON FIELD GUIDE TO MOTHS OF NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA 624 pages. Mariner Books, 2012ISBN 13 – 978-0547238487 Covering nearly 1500 species, illustrated by close to 2000 colour photograph…

If you’re looking to pick up your own copy of “Moths of Western North America”, you can order directly from Princeton University Press to get the best deal without going through Amazon. Seabrooke Leckie offers signed copies via their personal website, for about US $62 including shipping.

Moths of Western North America The first photographic field guide to present the moths of western North America as they are found in nature, making it easy to use for novices and experts alike

. . . in which case it is indeed the most accurate word to use. But then I’m left wondering what that original entomologist meant by the terminology, and what kinds of potential ecological relationships I can infer. I enjoy this kind of puzzle.

Field guide pages showing the silhouettes of thirty or so moth groups

. . . many of which don’t come particularly close to the platonic ideal of an aster.

I think it’s likely that Leckie uses the common name “aster” when that was the term used by the primary source literature . . .

Field guide pages providing external anatomy charts

Many WA natives used to be classified in the genus Aster, and all of them belong to the tribe Astereae. But Astereae also includes plants lile Baccharis (coyote brush), Ericameria (rabbit-brush), Grindelia (gumweed), Rigiopappus (wire stem), and Solidago (goldenrod) . . .

Field guide pages covering fungus, tubeworm, and clothes moths

. . . largely uses common names for plants – rather than scientific names. Generally this is easy to navigate, but it can be highly ambiguous when the host is referred to as something like “asters”. Sometimes people casually use “aster” to refer to the entire composite/sunflower family, Asteraceae.

Field guide pages covering some plume moths

Pterophoridae (plume moths) in particular are a group that I’ve wanted more detail on.

This impressive text lists known and suspected host plants, and it brings to mind a riveting challenge I have with this project of mine. Like many similar resources, “Moths of W NA” . . .

Cover of "Moths of Western North America", Seabrooke Leckie

I just received “Moths of Western North America”, by Seabrooke Leckie. I’m excited to dig into it as I continue the development of my giant database cross-referencing WA-native plants with the species of caterpillar specialized to feed on them.

Knotweed infestations can certainly be managed by manual removal and follow up for stragglers, though larger populations can get pretty pricy without going the herbicide route. t's more tenacious when it has gotten in among immovable rocks/concrete, and more frustrating when it's on a property line

It's hard enough just supporting myself and a herd of cats

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Hand-off can be at 11 or 3 at the Seabeck Comm Center parking lot; I’ll be around at both times. And it’s ideal that folks place orders for batboxes no later than Tues and birdhouses no later than Thurs, to give me time for construction should orders exceed current stock.

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