A stick bug came to visit. It hung out on the screen door most of the day.
I kept hoping that there would be a magical transformation like the one that occurs in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth. But, it didn’t happen. The next morning it was gone.
Agave March 24th
Agave April 19th
Agave Digging Into Itself
Agave Scrapes and Scars
What happens after an agave blooms? According to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum this is what happens to most agaves after they bloom–
“In all but a few species the rosette dies after flowering and fruiting, having spent all of its life energy to produce a huge quantity of seeds-a monocarpic (once-fruiting) life cycle. The plants literally flower themselves to death.”