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Hummingbirds are migrating. Most will be gone from Missouri by early October, on their way to Central America. Keep feeding them as they all pass through.
Hummingbirds are migrating. Most will be gone from Missouri by early October, on their way to Central America. Keep feeding them as they all pass through.
Many insects are busy visiting late-season flowers like goldenrods. The attractive wasp Scolia dubia is an example. Did you know it hunts Japanese beetles?
It’s not a true ironweed, and it won’t win a beauty contest. But this weedlike wingstem is valuable in nature, and it’s a plant that forms frost flowers, too.
Black walnut is one of our early fall color trees, starting to turn yellow in September. Its golden leaflets will soon be fluttering away in the breezes.