This is my best insect photo ever, taken about 10 years ago in my own backyard.What are you seeing there, you ask? What you are seeing is a cicada killing wasp actually stinging a cicada, …
Gotta take the bad with the good
'Tis a lovely morning in the garden when the hybrid hyssop, Agastache 'Blue Fortune', is just beginning to bloom and the bees have already discovered it. It sure didn't take long. This lovely flower …
What I do about Japanese beetles in my garden
Japanese beetle on raspberries The other day, I noticed a butterfly and a Japanese beetle sharing the same Agastache flower. I didn't get a good picture of them on the flower, though I tried to. …
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Go, go, go. Buzz, buzz, buzz.
We could learn a few things from the bees. They were out in full force on Friday, the first full day of spring. They buzzed from hellebores to crocuses and then from crocus to crocus. I'm sure they …
Thoughts From the Desert
Two flights with a layover in between and I was transported from Indianapolis in the Midwest, where Fall is lowering the temps and changing the leaf color, to Tucson in the Southwest, where it felt …
Can you believe this frass?
Photo orig. from The Blogging Nurseryman Can you believe this frass? The Hoosier Gardener, perhaps knowing that I like to use the word frass as my own secret gardener's cuss word, sent me this …
