Category: insects
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Abandoned Eggs?
What look like abandoned insect eggs have been resting neatly on a leaf for the past 24 hours. If I let nature take its course, will these eggs, stacked like billiard balls, ultimately devour all the leaves in my yard? For now. it’s a wait and see game. Please send me a better explanation.
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The (Red) Dragonfly
They’re called red dragonflies but frankly they are orange as shown in this photo taken at a Sacramento lily pond.
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Trapped
In this rather odd photo a tiny moth is trapped in a barely visible web cast between the leaves of a coleus. Somehow this capture fits the roller coaster of emotions in a world caught in the middle of a pandemic and the politics of hate.
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Ladybugs vs. Asian Lady Beetles
Our front yard appears to be a battle ground between two insect-eating species: the ladybug and the Asian Lady beetle. Love the ladybugs. But the look alike Asian lady beetle will bite and excrete a foul smelling liquid when riled. The Asian Lady beetle–introduced in this country in 1916 to fight aphids– has a white…
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A Snug Ladybug
In our sheltering-in world I found a ladybug yesterday wedged in flower bloom that had yet to open. It stayed there throughout the day.
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Honey Bee Collecting
The friendly assault on our ivy continues with thousands of honey bees collecting nectar and pollen before winter. So far, I’ve only seen one monarch in the ivy–too many bees, I guess, or too few monarchs.
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