The lady and the pear
Recent posts have been about lady bugs, and prickly pears. Here’s one about both: a lady bug on an Opuntia blossom in the Mojave desert. (Both photos A.Shock)
You can’t tell, but this particular prickly pear lives in a little piece of Nevada jammed between Arizona and California. Its chief attraction is that it’s also stuffed with Joshua trees, which we’re finding there are more of in the world than we ever thought: