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Caterpillars!
While I’m not interested in the plants in my garden simply being bug food, I do occasionally make an exception for caterpillars, at least the ones that become beautiful butterflies, beauty to be determined by my own subjective assessment. A couple weeks ago, there were several Black Swallowtails floating around the garden, and now there is a whole batch of caterpillars chubbing up on my rue plant. Each morning I go out to eye the plant to see whether it approaching that point of no return – where the bugs have mowed down too much for it to recover. Right now, it looks okay, but there are only three caterpillars…
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Nature Pictures
I love the way God demonstrates his creativity in the smallest of creatures, even if some of them are decidedly creepy. My husband asked me why I keep taking pictures of bugs, and I had no response other than I saw them or that they were right by my face. Speaking of having nature in my face, I was walking the outside of the fence starting at some flowers when a hummingbird hovered right in front of me. She kept approaching closer to the point where I could have reached out and touched her, except I squinted my eyes in case she was planning on stabbing them out with her…
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White Cricket
“I don’t know about you guys, but some days I’m just trying to blend in.”
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Moth for Monday
Giant Leopard Moth
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Meet Jolly. Jolly, meet Everyone.
We haven’t seen any traces of Itsy Bitsy in weeks. However, as I was scouring the “Italian Trombetta” squash vines for pests, I was greeted by this green spider, whom I’ve named Jolly. I don’t know if he has a web or not. I’ve only seen him hanging out on the same cluster of leaves for several days now. He is a Green Lynx Spider and is doing a little pest control of his own. The first time I saw him, he was next to a dead squash bug, whose lifeless carcass was being cleaned by ants. I’m not sure who was responsible as I was not a witness to…
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Evening Garden Walk