1.   The source of a powerful antibiotic, I live in the soil – and maybe also in your refrigerator.
American chestnut barn swallow corpse flower eight-spotted forester green bees hummingbird clearwing moth & snowberry clearwing moth Penicillium mold Virginia meadow-beauty or deer grass whitlow grass yellow-bellied sapsucker

2.   I swallow flying insects on the wing, so I might not do well with less food if insect numbers continue to decline.
American chestnut barn swallow corpse flower eight-spotted forester green bees hummingbird clearwing moth & snowberry clearwing moth Penicillium mold Virginia meadow-beauty or deer grass whitlow grass yellow-bellied sapsucker

3.   I’m a showy wetland plant that doesn’t appear when marsh or shoreline water levels in summer are too low in droughts or too high due to excessive rain.
American chestnut barn swallow corpse flower eight-spotted forester green bees hummingbird clearwing moth & snowberry clearwing moth Penicillium mold Virginia meadow-beauty or deer grass whitlow grass yellow-bellied sapsucker

4.   We’re tiny pollinators with a color that may surprise you. We’re threatened by the same changes that threaten many other pollinators.
American chestnut barn swallow corpse flower eight-spotted forester green bees hummingbird clearwing moth & snowberry clearwing moth Penicillium mold Virginia meadow-beauty or deer grass whitlow grass yellow-bellied sapsucker

5.   Don’t call a human by my name unless you want to risk insulting that person. I don’t always migrate these days, possibly due to a warming climate.
American chestnut barn swallow corpse flower eight-spotted forester green bees hummingbird clearwing moth & snowberry clearwing moth Penicillium mold Virginia meadow-beauty or deer grass whitlow grass yellow-bellied sapsucker

6.   You might mistake me for a butterfly. Widespread use of pesticides is not good for me and others like me.
American chestnut barn swallow corpse flower eight-spotted forester green bees hummingbird clearwing moth & snowberry clearwing moth Penicillium mold Virginia meadow-beauty or deer grass whitlow grass yellow-bellied sapsucker

7.   My relatives include local native skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) and local jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), as well as popular tropical houseplants. I myself live in a greenhouse.
American chestnut barn swallow corpse flower eight-spotted forester green bees hummingbird clearwing moth & snowberry clearwing moth Penicillium mold Virginia meadow-beauty or deer grass whitlow grass yellow-bellied sapsucker

8.   You might mistake one or the other of us for a hummingbird or a giant bumblebee.
American chestnut barn swallow corpse flower eight-spotted forester green bees hummingbird clearwing moth & snowberry clearwing moth Penicillium mold Virginia meadow-beauty or deer grass whitlow grass yellow-bellied sapsucker

9.   Look for me this spring! A common tiny wildflower in lawns, fields, and roadsides, I might be the first wildflower of spring you see (instead of skunk cabbage, pussy willow, or coltsfoot). Spring may come earlier these days.
American chestnut barn swallow corpse flower eight-spotted forester green bees hummingbird clearwing moth & snowberry clearwing moth Penicillium mold Virginia meadow-beauty or deer grass whitlow grass yellow-bellied sapsucker

10.   After being almost totally wiped out of North America’s forests due to a fungal blight, I might yet make a comeback if promising research involving the addition of a new gene works out.
American chestnut barn swallow corpse flower eight-spotted forester green bees hummingbird clearwing moth & snowberry clearwing moth Penicillium mold Virginia meadow-beauty or deer grass whitlow grass yellow-bellied sapsucker