I love the smell of White Vervain in the morning. When the humidity is just right and my hyphae can spread across the leaf tops. I’m Golovinomyces verbenae, powdery mildew to my friends. Not that I have many friends. Just the wind, shade and this leaf.
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Hello darling, it is I, Autumn Meadowhawk. Come bask with me in the sun. I do not care if you have been with another. I will remove any trace of their love, and together we will fly in tandem to where our naiads will learn to swim.
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Bask in my beauty, sip at my nectar or use me as a hunting platform (I see you spiders), just don’t call me a sunflower. That would be false. False Sunflower, that is. These pretty ray petals are plenty fertile. Enjoy.
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Hush little baby, don’t you sting,
Mama’s gonna make you a gall-like thing
If that gall-like thing’s too soft,
Well tough cause you’re an Oak Rosette Gall Wasp
If you don’t wanna be a gall wasp,
At least you don’t parasitize any moths
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I identify as a fuzzy. Whether it’s stems, flowers or fruit, I love the feel of dense soft hairs covering the flesh. They call me Staghorn Sumac, because I’m reminiscent of antler velvet. Maybe one day I’ll meet such an antler.
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Oh how I love the fall! Sawadaea tulasnei here, although you may know me as Powdery Mildew. Some of you may look forward to the fall colours, but to me the fall is when I can switch from asexual reproduction to the sexual kind. Maple leaves are my kink
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Hi there, I’m Red-legged Grasshopper. They say that blonds have more fun, but I’ve always thought red-legs were more glamorous. I live across all of NA, can eat any plant around and often mate for hours. Why wouldn’t you want to be me?
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I am Common Eastern Bumblebee.
I am good enough. I am a worker bee. That is an important job. I don’t need to make babies like my Queen. Think of all the places I visit outside the hive. I am an adventurer. I bumble, therefore, I am.
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Who are you calling a Humped Green Fruitworm now?! That’s right, I’m all grown up, so you leaf yard bullies can call me Copper Underwing. No, I’m not showing you my copper. You don’t scare me anymore.
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How ahh yas? New England Aster hiah. The weadah is wicked awesome dis time ah yiah. Not too hot, not too cold. Lots ah pollinatahs too. Good tah see, good tah see. Why doncha come ovah and tickle my petals sometime?
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Goodbye summer, hello fall! I’m back, so put away the sunscreen and get ready to crave some pumpkin spice. I’m Common Blue Wood Aster, if we haven’t met. Check for me in the shade covered in pollinators. I’m here all month.
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Sorry, I’m not really into grey morphs right now. You’re kinda in my space with all these dance moves. Can you back up with the tufted morphs please? Sorry, but as a Polymorphic Jumping Spider woman I get to choose my type of man spider
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Do you smell that? It wasn’t me. I’m Scentless Mayweed. Maybe that’s how I’ve managed to spread so far globally, by being nose blind? Or maybe because I make a jillion seeds that last forever and grow anywhere. Whichever.
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I love you, honey. Oh! Not you. I meant actual honey. Although, the night is young and our days are short. Did you have a sweet mandible like me as a cat? They call me Dried Fruit Moth, but give me a honeycomb any day. Bees beware.
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Anyone else disappointed by the movie Looper? I like Bruce Willis as much as the next moth, but woah what a bait and switch on the title! Not a single Common Looper Moth featured. And yes, I checked the bark and dead leaves. Let down
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Stretching through the darkness, I scope the outer reaches of my senses for the taste of death. Alive. Alive. Alive. Dead! Refocusing my energies, I absorb the decaying sapwood into my very fibre. Sprouting into Milky-white Toothed Polypore
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Can you smell it? Fall is coming. The time of plenty. Dead leaves falling from the sky to feed a Bent-winged Owlet caterpillar’s belly. It’s a glorious thing. Even if it’s not my jam these days, it reminds me of my youth. Nom nom nom
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I do love a large maple, but I’m not sure that’s enough to call me Large Maple Spanworm Moth. Back when I ate, I would go for pretty much any leaf. I prefer Master of Disguise! Am I a stick? A leaf? A moth? I like to keep ya guessing
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