Special thank you to John and Grace Darling for a perfect evening at SWNP. The Darlings have an amazingly broad and deep knowledge of everything to do with nature, from frog calls to plant IDs and even a defense of poison ivy. The highlight of the evening was finding the blooming yuccas and their “obligate mutualistic” yucca moths. Male and female moths emerge from their cocoons in the spring, timed with the blossoming of the yucca plant. There is an extraordinary partnership between the yucca moth and the yucca plant. They are so interdependent that one cannot live without the other. Photo credits to Jan Miller, Lynn Healy, Jim Frisinger, Annabelle Corboy.
