Star Wars Garden Gnome Bees, Soldier Beetles, Cats Too Butterflies - Oh My!

Carpenter bee on reblooming Vitex agnus-castus (chaste tree)

Can yous topographic point the Very Fuzzy Caterpillar?

How almost now? It's a milkweed tussock moth (a.k.a. milkweed tiger moth) on a swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)

Two milkweed tussock caterpillars also appear happy to feed on a dissimilar species of milkweed - Asclepias viridis (green antelopehorn)

Soldier beetle on imitation sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)

Butterflies similar to feed on imitation sunflower too!

They also feed on blanket bloom (Gaillardia x grandiflora)