
Creepy Crawlies
Pollinate those sunflowers!!! Ever since my first entomology job in college, I’ve been fascinated by insects. I still prefer animals

Pollinate those sunflowers!!! Ever since my first entomology job in college, I’ve been fascinated by insects. I still prefer animals

Kitty Cat Claire doing one of her favorite things: holding bugs. Every year we’ve lived here, we’ve bought praying mantis

We had an unexpected dinner guest last night that made everyone a bit nervous. She was most likely from the

We were gone two hours and this surprise showed up! It was pushing 98 degrees, the humidity was incredibly high,

Claire is an entomologist for sure. There are very few bugs that she’ll scream at when she sees, and usually,

Two is better than one. Well, those darn bees went ahead and died this winter. Instead of freezing to death like

Giving her new friend a tickle on the tummy. Claire has never been shy with bugs so when I pointed

All tucked in for the duration of winter. Before the latest cold snap, Jack cut and situated some thick insulation
This is how bad the biting flies are at times: (And part of my hesitation in wanting to get on

One of the perpetrators. No hair, thin body, no barbed stinger: a yellowjacket I was innocently mowing the yard and

Yep. Those are ALL bees. Just as we were getting ready to leave, I was powdering my nose when Evie

Look who showed up! It seemed like only yesterday they were just an egg sack! Since I finished mowing faster than
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