In the Nursery by Siwa

 A few months ago I got my first regular job. I now work in a nursery taking care of plants. Here are some of my favorites from the nursery.

This plant is called either Leadwort or Plumbago (Plumbago auriculata). It is a native of South Africa. On the sepals (the green part attached to the base of the flowers) there are tiny sticky hairs that will attach themselves to anything that gets brushed against them.

An Orb Weaver spider (Neoscona theisi). The nursery is full of these and almost all of them have slightly different colors and patterns. I've found white ones, orange ones, even some rust colored ones. They spin their webs between the rows of plants.

A Green Anole Lizard (Anolis carolinensis) on a variegated form of Fragrant Dracaena (Dracaena fragrans). When a plant is variegated it has more white or yellow in some part of it than the normal plant would have. I think this particular one is referred to as having lemon lime leaves.

A Croton moth caterpillar (Achaea janata) on a crown of thorns leaf (Euphorbia milii). This caterpillar feeds on a variety of poisonous plants.

Another Orb Weaver spider showing one of the different patterns.

Two Grainy planthopper nymphs (Kallitaxila granulata) on a young  Beefsteak (Acalypha wilkesiana) leaf.

Raindrops on a spider's web.

I'm not really sure yet what kind of caterpillar this is; it was feeding on a Chinese banyan leaf (Ficus microcarpa). The caterpillar on the dead eaten part of the leaf makes it look like a butterfly.