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Deadly Beauty
I’ve been checking in daily with the ambush bugs that live in the yellow coneflowers that line my driveway, as they both fascinate and creep me out…kinda like watching reruns of The Twilight Zone. I...
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Wow! This is stunning!
Honey bees working together Look at all these bees! Looking for a colorful, showy, easy to grow, deer-proof native plant that attracts a host of pollinators for your wildlife garden? Here it is! Wasp...
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Does This Fly Make My Butt Look Big?
There are endless opportunities to discover something new in your wildlife garden or local park. Remember to take the time to sit quietly and observe what’s going on around you. More often than not I...
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Insects are a weighty matter
Aphids on a pear tree. One of many out of sight colonies, amounting to several pounds of insects per tree© Beatriz Moisset If all the insects in an acre of land chose to sit on you, they would crush...
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Biocontrols. Fighting Fire with Fire
Mile-a-minute choking trees© Beatriz Moisset What to do when an introduced species, be it a plant or insect, gets so out of control that eradication seems impossible? This is a serious consideration....
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Love is In the Air in My Native Plant Garden
Even winged sumac (Rhus copallinum) shows it has heart It’s that time of year! Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day 2015, so I thought I would share the annual lovefest in my garden. I attribute my many...
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Ground-Nesting Bees – Why You Should Let These Bees Nest in your Garden
We often base our model on how bees nest, forage, and communicate on the honey bee. Honey bees nest in large, social colonies whereas most native bees have solitary nests, and the majority of native...
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Identifying Garden Fresh Eggs
Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia Sialis) eggs Last month my post showed the power of love in my native plant and wildlife garden with photos of an array of mating critters. This month it seems the seeds have...
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The Milkweed Community
Adult monarch butterfly on common milkweed© Beatriz Moisset The monarch season is coming, and gardeners throughout the country are getting ready to welcome them with milkweeds lovingly cultivated in...
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Christmas in July: Wild Poinsettia
Paintedleaf (Poinsettia cyathophora; synonym: Euphorbia cyathophora) Next to the patio I have a patch of Paintedleaf a.k.a. Fire-On-The-Mountain a.k.a. Wild Poinsettia (Poinsettia cyathophora;...
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