From Audubon Society of Northern Virginia <[email protected]>
Subject Monday Nature Mystery
Date August 9, 2022 12:14 AM
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Can you guess what this is? Plus last week's answer and winner!


** August 8, 2022
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Monday Nature Mystery

We are pleased to announce the winner of our Monday Nature Mystery, Ducky Nguyen. (Please email your snail mail address and preference for a hat or tote bag to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .)

Congratulations to Ducky for correctly identifying Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa). According to our friends at Virginia Native Plant Society ([link removed]) , Wild Bergamot is a lovely native flower that is visited by bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Its leaves have a minty smell. Wild bergamot provides an excellent background or mass of color in the perennial garden, especially when mixed with purple coneflower, lavender, phlox, black-eyed Susan and asters. Not a fussy plant, wild bergamot will grow well in sandy clay to light loamy soil, in fairly well drained, sunny locations. It tolerates drought and light shade and is not bothered by insect pests.
Last Week's mystery: Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa). Photo: Shadowmeld Photography, CC-BY-SA-4.0 ([link removed])
Each Monday we’ll post a new photo and identify the previous week’s winner. They’ll receive an ASNV hat or tote bag.

Be sure to post your answer on our Facebook page @AudubonVA ([link removed]) under the Monday Mystery post...do not reply to this email with your guess! We only accept entries from our Facebook page, not via email.

Please remember to write the common name, being mindful of hyphens, uppercase and lowercase letters and always include the Latin name in parentheses. To learn more about bird names click here ([link removed]) .
Photo: Jeanne Polarolo/Audubon Photography Awards

This week’s Mystery: What species of juvenile gull is this?

Post your guess (please list both common name and Latin name) on our Facebook page @AudubonVA ([link removed]) under this week's Monday Nature Mystery. Remember, we only accept entries from our Facebook page, not via email!

Good luck!

-Audubon Society of Northern Virginia

Please note that we only accept entries on our Facebook page where they are date- and time-stamped. Remember that, if you need to correct your entry, you should make a new posting rather than correcting the old one so that we get a correct time stamp for your correction. Winners are limited to one prize every 90 days.

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