A Bloom Designed by a Muppet

Fuzzy flowers, baby lantern flies and how climate change causes home runs

After moving into our house I would pace our small yard daily and identify any new springtime plants that had sprung up. Garlic mustard. Hairy bittercress. Colt’s foot. Ground ivy. There were quite a few of them but none of them were native to Pittsburgh. Just as quickly as I identified them, I’d start pulling them out. Then one day I noticed something …