I didn’t get as clear of a shot as I wanted, but I had to post this photo anyway. Those buggy eyes are so comical.
Damselfly
Category: insects
Eye Spy
DeLorean
There are a bunch of ladybugs in my garden right now, and who doesn’t like a ladybug? Their appearance signifies spring, they’re colorful and cute, and they eat aphids. Hopefully this group will hang around for awhile, because I’ve got a lot of aphids that need to be eaten.
Harlequin
I found two very flashy bugs in the garden today tapping a rapini plant. I figured they were probably pests rather than beneficial insects since they were brazenly helping themselves to plant juice, but I thought I should try to find out some more information about them before sending out an eviction notice.
I don’t remember ever seeing this insect here before, but after finding out it is partial to mustard plants, I know why it’s here now – rapini is in the mustard family.
I also found out that the harlequin beetle is a stink bug. Eew.
Roly Poly
Armadillo bugs, armadillidiidae, pill bugs, etc.. I lifted up a brick that was sitting on the edge of one of the garden beds and discovered dozens of little roly polys in a variety of colors hiding underneath. They didn’t like being exposed to sunlight and quickly dispersed to parts unknown.
Buzz Off
I was doing some gardening yesterday and discovered this guy in the middle of a stack of seedling pots. I thought I had found a dead bug at first, but after a few moments in the sun it started moving around and eventually buzzed off. I wonder if it spent the winter encased in those pots?
The Cricket on the Hearth
I found this insect on the door of the wood stove the other day. Unfortunately he was already “crispy” by the time I discovered him. Now he lives on as a photo op.
Superfly
Hey Lady!
So, I had a photo of a spider and one of a ladybug. Ladybug or spider? Spider or ladybug? In the end the ladybug won. No, not because it’s cuter (although it is), but because the spider was sitting there staring at me with all of its eyes and being very still even though my lens was practically touching its hairy little legs, whereas this one wouldn’t stop moving for a second. Not. One. Second. This photo took effort, and I was reminded that ladybug models do not take direction… so here are my panning skills (ha) in action.
Bee Mine
Someone else likes those flowers too.
