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Kale
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In my Quest to garden organically I became rather observant, I was seeing all kinds of interesting bugs. At first just thinking they would make a really cool picture, their spots, stripes wild and crazy designs, their mating positions were different they reacted differently when I separated them*lol
They acted differently when I watched them. Some I took for microscope inspection. Scale underside interested me so much I recorded the mother working with her eggs under that hard shell, teasing her just to see her reaction, simply amazing what the world is missing out on.
Some I just photographed.
I found bugs everywhere I looked. I found weird looking worms and beetles and bees. In fact I recalled the only paper I enjoyed writing in school was about bumble bees. The bees interested me because I understood they were the pollinators .To learn the stinger isn’t on their nose was fascinating to me along with learning that some bubble bees do not have a stinger. Ants interested me as a child as I watched them build big houses only for it to rain and ruin it. Later to learn the way they use aphids for sweet dew.
Wasps, oh my! I followed one for years wondering what it was. It wiggled its butt as it sat on the plants, I asked every gardener if they knew what it was and if they had it or ever saw one.
It didn't have an abdomen it seemed, sorta like it was just connected to the top half with a string of some sort.
The Proctotrupoidea simply tickled my curiosity. And recently even flies, there are so many of all of these critters my little memory couldn’t remember and my mouth could never pronounce!
There are thousands that still need to be classified. The world of critters is nearly never ending. I found a Cicada Killer Wasp while helping a neighbor not pull perennials from her garden; she wasn’t sure what not to pull. To actually find the wasp there with the cicada was fascinating as you will read at the link they never return. I caught her red handed and didn’t even know it! Don’t know what the chances of that ever happening again are!
Im guessing every one has a predator of some sort.
Some do live 7-10 years under your soil only to be poisoned then dug underground and eggs be inserted by the Cicadia Killer Wasp. Unbelievable!
LINK>> http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/2007/7-18/Cicada_killer.html
Every watch a spider try to attack a wasp?
Ever sit on the cement, touch a hill that ants made and just watch what they do? This thread is for you!
I have many adventures in my gardens, critters are very interesting, knowing them helps me not use a chemical. Actually, I plant for them and leave wood canes for them to bore in instead of my roses*lol
Working with them makes my gardening so much easier and adventurous!
They don’t even know how much help they truly are! One year I thought there was no hope for me to win against the critters there can be 10 or more for any given plant. I thought I would never be able to control all these pest I read about in any given book.I was feeling so defeated and wondered how can a tiny group of bugs defeat me after all Ive beenthrough in my life a bug is going to win and take my passion of gardening away??
NO WAY! Before long, I found out that there is definitely hope,you just have to understand the critter and if he is a friend you pacify him with food and shelter if he is a brat you encourage the predator.
Please come share your adventures here with any bug stories you may have from the amusement of their colors to the way they help you in the garden.
Kale
They acted differently when I watched them. Some I took for microscope inspection. Scale underside interested me so much I recorded the mother working with her eggs under that hard shell, teasing her just to see her reaction, simply amazing what the world is missing out on.
Some I just photographed.
I found bugs everywhere I looked. I found weird looking worms and beetles and bees. In fact I recalled the only paper I enjoyed writing in school was about bumble bees. The bees interested me because I understood they were the pollinators .To learn the stinger isn’t on their nose was fascinating to me along with learning that some bubble bees do not have a stinger. Ants interested me as a child as I watched them build big houses only for it to rain and ruin it. Later to learn the way they use aphids for sweet dew.
Wasps, oh my! I followed one for years wondering what it was. It wiggled its butt as it sat on the plants, I asked every gardener if they knew what it was and if they had it or ever saw one.
It didn't have an abdomen it seemed, sorta like it was just connected to the top half with a string of some sort.
The Proctotrupoidea simply tickled my curiosity. And recently even flies, there are so many of all of these critters my little memory couldn’t remember and my mouth could never pronounce!
There are thousands that still need to be classified. The world of critters is nearly never ending. I found a Cicada Killer Wasp while helping a neighbor not pull perennials from her garden; she wasn’t sure what not to pull. To actually find the wasp there with the cicada was fascinating as you will read at the link they never return. I caught her red handed and didn’t even know it! Don’t know what the chances of that ever happening again are!
Im guessing every one has a predator of some sort.
Some do live 7-10 years under your soil only to be poisoned then dug underground and eggs be inserted by the Cicadia Killer Wasp. Unbelievable!
LINK>> http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/2007/7-18/Cicada_killer.html
Every watch a spider try to attack a wasp?
Ever sit on the cement, touch a hill that ants made and just watch what they do? This thread is for you!
I have many adventures in my gardens, critters are very interesting, knowing them helps me not use a chemical. Actually, I plant for them and leave wood canes for them to bore in instead of my roses*lol
Working with them makes my gardening so much easier and adventurous!
They don’t even know how much help they truly are! One year I thought there was no hope for me to win against the critters there can be 10 or more for any given plant. I thought I would never be able to control all these pest I read about in any given book.I was feeling so defeated and wondered how can a tiny group of bugs defeat me after all Ive beenthrough in my life a bug is going to win and take my passion of gardening away??
NO WAY! Before long, I found out that there is definitely hope,you just have to understand the critter and if he is a friend you pacify him with food and shelter if he is a brat you encourage the predator.
Please come share your adventures here with any bug stories you may have from the amusement of their colors to the way they help you in the garden.
Kale
