Busy bugs on the blooms. #Wordless Wednesday #Glorious Goldenrod

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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31 Responses to Busy bugs on the blooms. #Wordless Wednesday #Glorious Goldenrod

  1. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    June 4, 2025 at 7:34 am

    Love the bee catching a snack.

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  2. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    June 4, 2025 at 10:04 am

    Busy bugs indeed. The gnats have arrived as if scheduled on the calendar down here. June 1st – boom!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 4, 2025 at 6:28 pm

      Yes, a trio of them here on the goldenrod and I actually didn’t see the other two until the photo was on the computer screen. I hate gnats and they sneak into the house on your clothes and in your hair. I have finally finished dealing with baby ants. Every year, on one side of the house only, there is a parade of baby ants that come trickling in. This usually happens in mid-April, but this year they were delayed for some reason and after dealing with them for three weeks, I saw the last one yesterday thankfully.

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      • Dave's avatar Dave says:
        June 5, 2025 at 10:47 am

        I tried mosquito netting for the first time yesterday. World of difference with the gnats. They’re still attracted to my scent; they just can’t land on my face and ears. Genius!

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        June 5, 2025 at 7:54 pm

        Well that’s a good idea Dave. A fellow blogger and her husband go hiking a lot in the woods at Algonquin Park and they have the mosquito netting hats and face coverings as the mosquitoes are so bad. We are already having ticks, so going out requires a tick check after every outing. The company REI makes clothing with a built-in tick repellent which is a good idea. I’d try it, but I wear sun protection clothing as I am often walking at the shoreline and it works well – no greasy film on skin, especially if you’re using a camera and you won’t get sunburned.

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      • Dave's avatar Dave says:
        June 6, 2025 at 10:59 am

        Coincidence; just picked up a bottle of “No Natz” yesterday, a botanical spray recommended by our local farm supply. The mosquito netting does the trick but if the spray works as well it’d be nice not to have a covering. I’m thinking this topic has the makings of a blog post. You can talk about this summer’s crop of ticks and I’ll cover the gnats 🙂

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        June 6, 2025 at 8:51 pm

        Interesting – botanicals are good so you have no worries about harming yourself. Yes, do a blog post topic for sure Dave. When I found the tick in my ear last year I was pretty horrified. The one day I was walking last Summer and ditched my wide-brimmed 50 SPF sunhat. I burn easily near the shoreline. The tick likely plopped onto my hair and crawled into my outer ear. After every walk I do a tick check and a poop check (lots of geese and goslings these days). 🙂 After hearing the radio ads for “Spruce” weed killer, which is 100% safe for kids and pets, I bought some. They use the song “Who Let the Dogs Out” in the commercial … it was easy to remember the product that way. I’ve had it here a few weeks but you have to have perfect conditions to kill those weeds in record time and safely: no wind for drifting, a certain temperature and lots of sun. We have not had all three criteria anytime since last Summer I believe. I like that it’s safe and hopefully it does not cause the little ants to come back inside! I am down to stragglers now.

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  3. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    June 4, 2025 at 10:20 am

    Oh, that’s goldenrod! I see this everywhere. Hope your having a good Wednesday, Linda!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 4, 2025 at 6:30 pm

      I think goldenrod is beautiful Terri, especially since it appears at the tail end of Summer/early Fall when the other vibrant flowers start looking bedraggled … except the sunflowers of course. 🙂 We are having a heat wave today again and waiting on a storm which I hope passes us by!

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  4. lindalouslife's avatar lindalouslife says:
    June 4, 2025 at 10:29 am

    Took me a second to find the bee. Nice capture!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 4, 2025 at 6:33 pm

      Thanks Linda! I know it is a little smaller than I’d like but I used it since there were two other bugs … a “three-fer” on the goldenrod! I really like the goldenrod as it is as welcome for its vibrant color as the forsythia is in the Spring.

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  5. AnnMarie Stevens's avatar AnnMarie Stevens says:
    June 4, 2025 at 10:40 am

    Miss Linda…………………………………..are you allergic to the Golden Rod pretty flower…………………………..that bees seem to like??

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 4, 2025 at 6:35 pm

      Hi Ann Marie – I am not allergic to Goldenrod anymore as I’ve been on allergy shots for years, but I used to go crazy sneezing when it came out. The bees do like it. Wherever you see Goldenrod, you will see lots of bees!

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  6. Debbie D.'s avatar Debbie D. says:
    June 4, 2025 at 12:39 pm

    Nice closeup! 👌 Lots of goldenrod for the bees to enjoy. 🐝

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  7. ruthsoaper's avatar ruthsoaper says:
    June 4, 2025 at 8:11 pm

    Goldenrod tends to get a bad rap. It is thought to cause allergies but in reality, most people are reacting to rag weed – a totally different plant that flowers at the same time as goldenrod. Ragweed is green and not very showy, but its pollen is very light and carries easily in the wind. The pollen of goldenrod is heavier and not as likely to be spread in the wind. Goldenrod is important for our pollinators especially butterflies.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 4, 2025 at 8:30 pm

      I remember you did a post on the differences once and I think I remember telling you about my allergies at that time. I got allergy shots for Summer ragweed/pollen/grass from 1975 to 1995, then my allergist was retiring and said I could just quit the shots. So I did as the new allergist did not have Saturday hours, nor early morning/evening hours like he had. Nine years later I was back on the shots, going through the whole once-a-week shot regimen to build up immunity again, which took over a year. But when the allergies returned in full bloom, they were in the Spring, not in late Summer. Now I’m fine in late Summer. I still get shots and have since 2004, but still take OTC Alavert in Springtime from trees/grass.

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  8. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    June 5, 2025 at 4:17 am

    Perfect capture the Bee 🐝 catching a snack. Beautiful yellow colour flower on the 🐝.

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  9. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    June 5, 2025 at 7:51 am

    A bountiful pollen hub for the pollinators!

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  10. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    June 6, 2025 at 1:15 am

    Sweet shot of wonderful Goldenrod! Looks like one of the bugs on it may be a Japanese Beetle. They are way less common insects now, thank goodness… due to some species of birds eating them. Japanese Beetles can do a lot of damage.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 6, 2025 at 9:03 pm

      Thank you Tom! I think it is beautiful and at the marshy parks it sure grows everywhere. I wasn’t sure what bugs were on it, so I hesitated to identify them. Over the years at this house, there have been several trees and bushes lost to bugs – what a shame for that. Two Oak trees and a Locust Tree were lost to Carpenter ants and a beautiful White Birch to Birch Borer Disease. One of my Boxwoods in the backyard is not looking well and I’ve lost many perennials from the Polar Vortex of 2013-2014, not a bug like the others, but just as bad.

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  11. singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
    June 6, 2025 at 3:30 am

    I’m lucky if I find one bug! You get some interesting shocks.

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