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One year ago today 🌿

Ericameria nauseosa, our Rubber Rabbitbrush, blooming in Browns Canyon #nativeplants
Cluster of yellow rayless flowers
September 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM Everybody can reply
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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡
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Yesterday

“huh? what’s wrong with that moth? is it stuck in the stickiness of the rabbitbrush? maybe i’ll help it get unstuck … Ohhhhh … well, that’s a perfect match”

Rubber Rabbitbrush
(Ericameria nauseosa)
Flower Crab Spider
(Misumena vatia)
Moth
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A tan moth stuck in the yellow florets of rabbitbrush A tan moth getting eaten by a yellow crab spider the exact same color as the yellow florets of rabbitbrush
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM Everybody can reply
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FrontRangeWildflowers
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Ten years ago today 🌿

Bee on Ericameria nauseosa, our Rubber Rabbitbrush, blooming in Longmont #nativeplants 🐝 iPhone pic
Bee on small yellow flowers
September 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM Everybody can reply
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The last light on San Joaquin Mountain (elev. 11,556) and the last flowers on the Ericameria, with a bonus appearance of a very small crescent moon.
October 20, 2023 at 8:23 PM Everybody can reply
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my favorite plant smell: Ericameria albida. most rabbitbrushes have yellow flowers, but it has white ones and has this amazing citrusy scent
November 23, 2024 at 4:25 PM Everybody can reply
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FrontRangeWildflowers
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Six months from this date today 🌿

Ericameria nauseosa var. nauseosa (Rubber Rabbitbrush) blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildflife Refuge, Sep. 12, 2017
Numerous bright yellow flowers
March 12, 2024 at 3:26 PM Everybody can reply
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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡
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Rabbitbrush season has started
🌿Ericameria nauseosa

“Specimens growing near Los Alamos exhibit a concentration of radioactive strontium-90 300,000X higher than a normal plant. Roots reach into a nuclear waste treatment area, mistaking strontium for calcium due to its similar chemical properties.”🤯
Close up view of the yellow blooms of rabbit brush. There’s a lake and mountains in the background with a clear sky From Wikipedia: The leaves, depending on the subspecies, are 2–7.5 centimetres (3⁄4–3 inches) long and narrow to spatula-shaped. Both the flexible (rubbery) stems and the leaves are greenish-gray with a soft felt-like covering. It blooms from August to October and produces pungent-smelling, golden-yellow flowers. The flower heads are 6–13 millimetres (1⁄4–1⁄2 in) long and made up of 5 small, yellow, tubular disk flowers, and occur in umbrella-shaped terminal clusters. A large bumblebee on the yellow blooms of rabbitbrush.
August 17, 2024 at 7:39 PM Everybody can reply
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Joseph Yaroch
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Turpentine Bush, Ericameria laricifolia. 📸🌿
Green bush with small yellow flowers 💐
December 8, 2024 at 2:59 AM Everybody can reply
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Bill Pusztai
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#Ericameria nauseosus, Rabbit Sagebrush, Similkameen, BC, Canada.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
In the foreground, a shrubby plant with silvery needle-like leaves and terminal clusers of golden flowers. In the BG another bunch, out of focus, and behind that yet more. Syilx Nation.
February 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM Everybody can reply
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Bob Danley
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The nectar source looks like rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa?). Magnet for late summer/fall butterflies here in western MT.
December 8, 2024 at 1:46 AM Everybody can reply
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An unnamed 6529ft (1990m) peak at Walker Pass carpeted in flowers; too hard to ID at this distance, but I’m taking a wild guess of Leptosyne bigelovii given its extensive presence nearby and similar color.

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A foreground of sagebrush scrub consisting of dry, sandy, light tan colored soil dotted with the celadon-greens and greys of Artemisia tridentata, Ericameria and/or Chrysothamnus, darker greens and rust from smaller shrubs, and the taller, spiny, trees of Yucca brevifolia rising up to a conical mountain densely coated in yellow from some species of Asteraceae. Behind it all, a vividly dark blue sky.
April 18, 2024 at 9:31 PM Everybody can reply
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#bugoftheday #2 is a longhorn-cuckoo bee in the genus Triepeolus. These bees are kleptoparaistic, laying their eggs in the nests of other bees (typically Eucerine bees) and feeding on their pollen provisions
Longhorn-cuckoo Bee (Triepeolus sp.) feeding on Rubber-Rabitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa)
January 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM Everybody can reply
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Wild Matters
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Think this might also be a #mason #bee
It's on a Ericameria linarifolia

#wildlife #macrophotography 🌿 #pollinators #bees #nature #bugsky
A small black bee with a shiny abdomen and white hairs on its thorax and thick black antennae walks among the stamens of a yellow composite flower. The bee may be resting a back knee on an anther of the flower.
April 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM Everybody can reply
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Samantha biobabbler
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The golden bush (Ericameria sp.) in our hood is LIGHTING up! And the hover flies are enjoying it.

Fall is upon us!
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A green stemmed shrub with short green needle-shaped leaves has fuzzy, glowing yellow flower clusters at the ends of its branches. Two of these flower clusters host large eyed hover flies.
September 26, 2023 at 7:02 PM Everybody can reply
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Ramsey Sullivan
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My partner made 2"x2"
framed needle-felted plant galls. ldentifications and hosts in the alt txt. #gallsky #art #needlefelting #scienceart #entomology #bugsky #wool
Five needle felted galls, two yellow, three brown, of Belonocnema fossoria on a needle felt Quercus geminata (Sand Live Oak) leaf. Three green needle felt developing Aciurina trixa galls (Bubble-gall Tephritid) of Ericameria nauseosa (Rubber Rabbitbrush) A red and white needle felt gall of Amphibolips quercusjuglans (Acorn Plum Gall Wasp) of Quercus sp.
December 29, 2024 at 10:07 AM Everybody can reply
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Rabbitbrush fluff! Ericameria nauseosa flowers turn to seeds and decorate the bushes with fluffy puffs in winter.
#Photography #BoulderColorado ##Artsy
A rabbitbrush flower panicle gone to seed explodes in a fluffy puff of golden pappi in winter. This photo is processed to give the image a fluffy cloud like look.
February 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM Everybody can reply
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California Spreadwing (Archilestes californicus) chowing down on what I believe is a Braconid wasp in the tribe Agathidini. These wasps are all over rabbitbrush in the summer, presumably looking for hosts to lay eggs in, so they're not uncommon prey-items for the local aerial hunters #bugoftheday #4
A spreadwing damselfly resting on a branch of rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa) with a red and black insect in its mouth A parasitoid wasp in the tribe Agathidini, walking on a rabbitbrush flower as it hunts for hosts
January 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM Everybody can reply
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I now live less than an hour from a national park, and we don't go often enough! Sunset is the best time. Also, here are #nativeplants at White Sands National Park. I believe it's a chamisa (Ericameria nauseosa).
A chamisa Ericameria nauseosa rubber rabbit brush in white sands dunes at sunset. White Sands National Park dunes with sunset
December 16, 2024 at 12:59 AM Everybody can reply
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Bill Pusztai
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#Ericameria nauseosa (fka Chrysothamnus nauseosus), grey rabbitbrush.
#wildflower #dryland #autumn #fall
Looking at a shrub from the middle distance. The leaves are threadlike and silver-grey, and are almost completely concealed by the plentiful golden yellow flowers at the end of every branch. It has the most incredible scent, like honey and sharp herbs.
October 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM Everybody can reply
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Nine years ago tomorrow 🌿 🐝

Bee on Ericameria nauseosa, our native Rubber Rabbitbrush, in Longmont.
Bee heavy with pollen sacs on bright yellow flowers
September 1, 2024 at 11:14 PM Everybody can reply
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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡
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4 Sept 2024 #FallBackFlowers with bonus bugs.

A Crossidius ater (longhorn beetle in the family Cerambycidae) on blooming Rubber Rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa).

Grey Hairstreak (Strymon melinus) sipping nectar from Naked Buckwheat (Eriogonum nudum).
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a black fuzzy beetle with a long abdomen covered with black-glittery wing-shells and very very long antennae. It is on a cluster of small yellow wildflowers. A small grey butterfly with orange and black spots along the edge of it's wings sipping nectar from a ball shaped cluster of small pink and white flowers with stamens covered with pink pollen.
March 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM Everybody can reply
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Studies on plants and animals from around the world probe how gene flow can affect biodiversity. Check out the Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Anthropocene Special Feature. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A study in the Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Anthropocene Special Feature reveals that rubber rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa) hybrids can reduce habitat fragmentation by occupying novel environments in Western North America. CREDIT: Emma Marris
August 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM Everybody can reply
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Wild Matters
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Same #bee as previous post

#wildlife #macrophotography 🌿 #pollinators #bees #nature #bugsky
A small black bee with green metallic sparkly thorax and head also has white hairs on its thorax. Its black abdomen is mostly hairless and shiny. The bee is angled head down into a yellow composite flower (Ericameria linarifolia), with its back legs in the air.
April 7, 2025 at 5:05 AM Everybody can reply
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