See you on the lopside of the moon

Lopsided Indian Grass, one of our showier local native grasses, is flowering at the moment in scrub and flatwoods habitats.

It's the host plant of one of Florida's rarest butterflies, the Arogos Skipper, by the way, though you'll see a lot more grass than skippers in these parts.

Today I photographed some of the grass with the rising late afternoon moon far in the background.

A different kind of roach

The scrub house has roaches, too. The usual species of roaches, American cockroach, Oriental cockroach and wood roach are there, but there's another that is unique to this place.

It is the Sand Cockroach, a thin insect that can wedge itself easily among the sand grains. I saw one recently flying at dusk, perhaps in search of a female. Females are flightless, so must wait for gentlemen callers to reproduce.

The immatures look odd, spotted and wingless. Another adaptation for scrub life, perhaps.