From St. Peter north to Little Falls, Park Rapids, and beyond it is dry and we see tan-brown lawns, and ponds are drying up. 18 - Largemouth bass, of Lake Waconia, biting like everything. Much yellow autumn foliage on hackberry trees. Hundreds of giant water bugs attracted to football field lights at Delano. Crocus and daffodil bulbs should be planted in September for bloom next spring 19 - Cedar waxwings and American robins feast on mountain ash fruit.
Raccoons eat Virginia creeper vine berries.
Migrating monarch butterflies stop to nectar on New England aster flowers. 20 - First ripe Regent apples. Statewide, about 6 percent of the field corn for grain has been combined, sugarbeets are 7 percent harvested, soybeans 14 percent, and potatoes 34 percent. Highbush cranberry shrubs have bright red fruit in clusters. The combining of field corn is in full swing in southern Minnesota.