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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Being green when the leaves are yellow
Even though the stores are already rolling out Christmas products, we’re just getting into autumn. Big Green Head lists 8 easy ways to be green this fall, and I add some ideas of my own. Continue reading
Posted in Chit-chat, Environment, Green, House and Garden
Tagged autumn, compost, environment, fall, garden, green, house, leaves, links, natural, nature, yard
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Fall visitors: Brown marmorated stinkbugs
If you live in the East or Midwest, you’ve probably seen the Brown Marmorated Stinkbug (Halyomorpha halys): a shield-shaped brown insect, about an inch (25 mm) long, that’s trying to get into your house this month! I see them in … Continue reading
Posted in Insects, True Bugs
Tagged autumn, brown marmorated, bug, fall, home invader, houseguest, insect, stink bug, stinkbug, true bug
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Poison ivy: a burning question
[T]there really are a few benefits to humans. But as a nature-lover and birdwatcher married to a botanist, I’ve learned that poison ivy is very beneficial for wildlife! Continue reading
Posted in Arachnids, Birds, Butterflies and Moths, Insects, Mites, Plants, Poison Ivy
Tagged arachnid, bird, caterpillar, ecology, mite, plant, poison ivy, poison oak, pondering, Rhus toxicodendron
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Confusing Fall Warbler time!
[I]f you associate a bird only with its adult breeding plumage…you won’t be able to tell that the dull olive-green bird chirping repetitively in September is the same as the bright golden-yellow one singing exuberantly in April. Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Life Cycles, Warblers
Tagged birdwatching, black-throated blue warbler, confusing fall warblers, fall, feathers, migration, non-breeding, plumage, warblers
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To rear or not to rear?
documenting the life cycle of these unpopular but fascinating insects is, indeed, well worth a few bites. In fact, it may be more valuable than popular life cycles like monarch butterflies… Continue reading
Ashy-Gray Lady Beetles
Despite the name, not all of these beetles are gray; some are black with two red spots. They are also not the only gray lady beetles around… Continue reading
Posted in Insects, Lady beetles, Plants
Tagged aphids, beetle, bug, coccinellid, insect, lady beetle, ladybird, ladybug, Olla v-nigrum, trees
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Try my new Facebook gift app!
Send lady beetle pictures to your friends on Facebook. It’s an exceptionally simple little gift app, but I had fun making it Facebook Ladybugs Gift App
Video: Monarch butterfly emerging from pupa
The first video shows the butterfly’s dramatic exit from the chrysalis. He emerges wet, fat-bodied, and tiny-winged, almost unrecognizable as a butterfly! Continue reading
Posted in Butterflies and Moths, Insects, Life Cycles
Tagged butterfly, chrysalis, Danaus plexippus, eclose, eclosion, emerge, insect, Lepidoptera, life cycle, monarch, monarch butterfly, pupa, video
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Artwork: Green Jay in Prismacolor pencil
Once we spotted them, there was no getting rid of them…They were so strikingly beautiful (in plumage if not voice) that I went straight back to our cabin and started drawing. Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Birds
Tagged artwork, bird, Cyanocorax incas, drawing, green jay, jay, Prismacolor, Texas
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