What is that insect on the surface of the water?
It is a water strider nymph (immature stage), which might turn into one of these:
Notice that the nymph makes much less of an impression on the water surface than the adult?
Look at all the stuff floating at the surface. Wonder what it must be like to call the top of a pond your home.
Another plant with small blackish seeds.
Even worse, the photographs didn’t turn out well because I was trying to take them right before dark.
Does the seed head help?
Do you recognize this plant?
Edit:Â The answer is now posted.
The mystery seeds from last week were from oriental poppies, Papaver orientale.
Perhaps if I showed the seeds from a poppy seed bagel it would have been easier to guess, although I understand those poppy seeds are from another species of Papaver.
Oriental poppies are supposedly perennials, although we’ve always grown them as annuals.
They originally from the Middle East.
The beautiful flowers come in a range of colors.
This pink one is frilly.
The red ones are breathtaking.
The seeds form in these seed heads and then are shaken out by the wind.
Do you grow oriental poppies?
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.
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