Bumblebees play!
Fascinating! This study suggests that bumblebees have feelings. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/05/1134355887/bumblebees-can-play-does-it-mea...
Leave the Stems for the Stem-Nesting Bees
Image: Living Prairie Museum Remember that bees hibernate in stems during the winter! More information here https://sites.tufts.edu/polli...
Watching the dragonflies circle the garden
We have been observing daily dragonflies flying through the garden throughout most of the daylight hours. When we first moved to this...
Butterflies still visiting
The butterflies are still active in our garden, although many plants are going dormant. Every day I see all day skippers, Gulf...
Progress update on our field cleanup
Every day I work in the field and other areas of the yard. The field is quite dry with a lot of dried grass, and oodles of fennel plants....
Common checkered skipper in the field
The only vegetation flourishing in the dry field are fennel plants, dandelions and a dandelion-like aster relative. The butterflies are...
Butterflies in the dry field
It's been very interesting to observe many butterflies visiting the dry field in the back of our new residence. The field is currently...
Big Pollinator Habitat Project
I haven't posted much within the past month because we moved to another house. After the grueling move to another house (same street, but...
And now they are chrysalides
So far, we have discovered two monarch chrysalides around the patio. This one attached itself to the bottom lip of a large flower pot....
