Wildflower - Mustard

The wildlife food plot of winter wheat I planted last summer was washed out/rotted from last year's rain. The rain caused water from a neighboring wetland to overflow into my food plot and deposit weed seeds such as wild mustard.

Wild mustard is an invasive plant that is native to Eurasia and brought to North America in the 1700s as a weed seed mixed in with grain seed brought by the early settlers.



Each mustard plant has many small flowers, less than 3/8 inches across, that produce nectar for bees and other insects. A hover fly, also known as a corn fly or flower fly, stops for a meal. It looks like a two headed hover fly ...



Turns out to be a double-decker hover fly.



The ants are having a picnic in the mustard flowers.