Can you guess what this is? Plus last week's answer and winner!
August 8, 2022
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].)
Congratulations to Ducky for correctly identifying Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa). According to our friends at Virginia Native Plant Society, 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.
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 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.
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 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.
