Aster—disk flowers . . . (A Smooth Aster, Symphyotrichum laeve) Autumn in North America.

Watch the color of Fall wayside Asters! As the disk flowers—
the ones in the center and surrounded by the ray florets—
are fertilized, the turn a rusty, reddish brown. Normally, we
think of leaves changing color and beginning to fall this time
of year. But there’s also still a lot of sex going on in the field
among these late bloomers. Ask the bumble bees. Not too late,
not too cold—to fly . . .

		Here is the same Aster, but seen from the Ant's persective . . .

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