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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Spring = Insects
Spring has come and the weather has been wonderful. Unfortunately I have had a rough spring. I lost my dog, Edison, to cancer. He was going to turn 9 years old in July. We had rescued him from euthanasia at a local shelter when he was just a puppy. He gave us an immeasurable amount [...]
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Gardening Hiatus
I have been bad. I haven’t been taking care of the yard lately. I will say I have been too busy, but maybe it’s been being too lazy. I enjoy working on the yard, so I was glad to get out there this weekend and pull some weeds. When I started I came across a [...]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Hatching babies?
Every time we go into the garden store I see the praying mantis egg sacs in the refrigerator and I think that would be fun to do. Well then I finally did it. We bought two praying mantis egg sacs and I hung one in the front yard and one in the backyard. Last weekend [...]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
While I weed
Was out last week weeding the yard. Best way to see insect and I lucked out and had a Plume Moth visit me and a Katydid.
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
The first insect I see…
This post is a couple months late. At the start of April, I started to see the insects coming out and the best time for me to really find insects is when I start to weed and trim the plants. Mid April, I did just that and came across two beautiful grasshoppers. It’s nice to [...]
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Aphid invasion
One day I started to notice that one of our plants had a ton of Ladybugs. I was so excited, each day I would think “I need to get out there with my camera.” And then one day I did. It was a beautiful sunny day and I found a wonderful Ladybug to take a [...]
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Bridge of Flowers
This summer I took a road trip to Massachusetts. One of the stops was the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls. It was beautiful out that day and the insects were loving it.
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Baby Grasshopper
Our Kangaroo Paws seem to be the best plants we could have ever planted to attract a wide variety of insects. I usually can go out and just start looking through them and come across someone hanging out. Well on this day I got a treat of the cutest little baby Grasshopper and in the [...]
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
2 Katydids and 1 Mantis
I love our yard. I especially enjoy our Kangaroo Paws. They seem to attract lots of insects and hummingbirds. It is most fun when it is time to cut off the dying paws, because then that’s when I end up finding lots of hidden visitors. This time I came across two Katydids, which is the [...]
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Insect skateboards…
I have to post this, because it’s just too cool. Zoo York is releasing a line of skateboards that NYC artists have done their renditions of cockroaches on. They look really great. Check them out at Zoo York.