Red Car Property: Native Kotolo Milkweed Near Viaduct Footings

Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 18, 2013.  Ants are farming Aphids on the Kotolo Milkweed on the north end of the Red Car Property.  (Click on photo to enlarge.)

This is the photo I was shooting when a giant black wasp, the Tarantula Hawk, startled me as it took off out of a nearby gopher hole.