http://insectriot.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:50:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://insectriot.com/2009/11/gardening-hiatus/ 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 ... http://insectriot.com/2009/08/hatching-babies/ 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. [gallery=8] http://insectriot.com/2009/07/while-i-weed/ 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 ... http://insectriot.com/2009/06/the-first-insect-i-see/ 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 ... http://insectriot.com/2009/01/aphid-invasion/ 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. [gallery=5] http://insectriot.com/2008/10/bridge-of-flowers/ 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 ... http://insectriot.com/2008/10/tiny-nymph/ 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 ... http://insectriot.com/2008/09/2-katydids-and-1-mantis/ 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. http://insectriot.com/2008/09/insect-skateboards/ Luckily on this day I had brought my camera to work, because a beautiful Praying Mantis decided to hang out by our back door. She was quite interested in what I was doing and was a bit feisty. Here are some photos from that day. [gallery=2] http://insectriot.com/2008/07/the-model-mantis/