Bugs and metamorphosis.

Metamorphosis - it's a beautiful thing! Below is a wee caterpillar. Then a mosquito and near the mosquito's leg are larvae eating the wood.

The final word: The caterpillar is Cucculia alfarata, camphorweed moth, feeds on, you guessed it, camphorweed, Heterotheca subaxillaris. Did not know they are found that far north. See them a lot down here in the south and further west.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;
we must die to one life before we can enter another.

-Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

Garden friends

➹ I love bug watching!