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The Abundant Mistletoe
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Two Up, Sunny Side!
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Red, Blue, Green, Oooh, Ouch!
In the span of a year here I’ve seen some stunning insects, and in some of those situations my prior background in collecting serves us well. Don’t need to whip out the field guide to know that some of these lawn jewels can hurt real bad or stink up the joint right quick if messed with. The large, fuzzy bright red “ant” is a wingless female wasp called a velvet ant, or cow killer. Though slow to anger it has the longest stinger of them all and packs a wallop. This is the second Spring in a row where I’ve first seen the smaller reddish brown species of velvet ant…
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Stalking Dinner
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It’s Always Cactember at Cactus Island.
Especially at blossoming and wooly growth times. A 6am seniors-only grocery store run last week surprised us with the tail end of open flowers on these night blooming Cereus Peruvianus/Hildemannianus as we walked over to the Jeep to leave. Made our morning and the rest of the day. The Pilosocereus aff flexibilispinus “Sitio Grande, Bahia” are getting taller and darker blue-green smoky skin, and the similar P. Piauhyensis are trading out lime green skin for dark green-blue complimented by yellow needles as they hit a growth spurt finally. A 6’x6′ square of extra shade cloth is aiding the Harrisia Aboriginum in growing healthier, taller and darker green as would be…
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A Gold Tortoise Shell Beetle and What it Likes to Visit
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Our Lizards
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Two Projects Completed Late Last Year
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Morphological Gems for the Eye, Cultivated and Found
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What it Took to Get Our “Food Engine” Organic Beds Going
