The bad news is that when I arrived at the oasis after spending a few days in town there wasn't a leaf left on my precious Gray Oak tree. I picked the blasted worms off even though it was too late. Nothing left for them to ruin.
It's been a weird year. I didn't get my monsoons until August (two, one week apart), so the soapberry trees didn't make berries, I had hardly any mosquitoes this year and a puny showing of dragonflies. Butterflies did good though. The native flowers got enough scattered showers for them to bloom on schedule. Even had a bumper crop of verbena (glandularia wrightii), which attracted some nice butterfly lifers for me. Next year I plan to make a verbena patch by digging up any I find and transplanting them to a viewing area where I can water and watch them .
One odonate species that I've seen more of this year than any previous year is Smoky Rubyspot, a lovely little damselfly.
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