Green dandelions at last!

Natural selection seems to have overshot the mark just a little bit, but, as I predicted, last summer I began to see a few green dandelions in my lawn.

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Taraxacum officinale viride – green dandelion. The visitor is a longhorn beetle, Crossidius sp., according to Eric Eaton, author, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America.