Spring semester is over!

An ominous find, drain fly, or bathroom moth. Personally, I like the scientific name: Clogmia albipunctata.

This guy was found by my son on the exterior wall. A butterfly, probably chequered white. In general, the butterflies are not as hardy as the moth species

If you look close, you can see the  shorter, feathery antennae that are a moth's "nostrils"

This is not a moth. Some sort of lace wing, I think.

It's important, I think, to remember there are other insects around us other than those large, noisy moths. Mostly, because the cutmoths will be gone soon.

Here is a bagmoth baby, or larva, the next generation is already hatching. He travels around in his own little sleeping bag for prtection. He also throws out a surprising amount of spun fibres and is very agile.

This is, apparently a old root crop called Salsify I'd never heard of it before. Not too much of it around, but it is pretty distinctive right now

This common flower doesn't stick around for very long in the spring, but I think I usually see it in early fall as well. I think it's bindweed, the flowers popped up quickly after the very light sprinkling we received over the last two days.

Nesting birds are busy right now. This is a hummingbird in a nest that has had at least two years continuous use. Don't think there are any eggs yet. The basic nest is cemented together with spiders web, which are strong, light and water resistant.

Corrales is famous for its baby owls that are molting now. Everyone knows where they are, and hopefully they are being left undisturbed. A shout out to the bird rehabber group "On a wing and a prayer" they are amazing 

This is a Koi that seems to have been recently released into the ditch. It already has an attentive mate, but because of the wild fish's color of dark grey, the mate is completely invisible against the background.

This big 'ole crayfish had recently died, but there are a lot of his buddies hiding out in the ditchbanks waiting for summer to come.