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Skeeterbag
This is not a paid ad. I have received no promotional support for this endorsement – I just think these things are cool, and want to tell my friends. We live in a lovely, wooded area of south Dallas....
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Scientific American
I have a very definite niche. Many of the things that I do, not a lot of people do. And, I document most of what I do – with lots of pictures, which I post online. So, when people are searching the...
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Trapped!
The composting worm bin lives in the upstairs bathroom adjacent to my office/studio room. So when things get weird in the bin, I know about it. I think that I picked up earwig eggs when I added...
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More passionflowers
We’ve had a beautiful weather year for the garden. The moist spring turned into a warm but not parched summer, and our fall cold front came almost a month early, bringing lovely cooler nights and...
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Sneak Peek
I’m sorry about the previous post being locked – it’s got a lot of information that’s not quite public domain yet. But the general idea, I can give you…. Before Bill Wyatt passed in 2009, he and I...
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Moth Night
This is something that I’ve always wanted to do, and have never done. Now, I’ve hung around outside buildings and watched the moths and other night-time insects come and go… but I’ve never done the...
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Are you tired of passionflowers yet?
This lovely little thing is Passiflora mooreana. It’s easy to suspect the photo for making it look kind of faded and blue, but that’s the way it looks in real life – the whole plant has a kind of sage...
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Moth Night!
I have been busy getting two big moth-related events put together, and not blogging about them… I promise I’ll try to get blurbs up about them, because there was a lot of cool stuff and I want to be...
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In the yard today – passionflowers, of course, plus other things.
I spent some time in the yard today with my Canon Rebel T2i. I love the convenience of having a camera in my phone, but it just doesn’t have the glass… with a 60mm macro lens, I can get a lot more...
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Mimicry, and seeing life in macro
I’ve enjoyed nature all my life. I was that kid, tromping in the woods, turning over logs to marvel at the life beneath, watching the patterns of light and shadow on leaves to see the hidden snake....
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Silkworm Season is beginning!
Every year it happens… the leaves pop out on the local mulberry trees, and then it’s time to start the silkworms. The Ancient Wisdom version says that you should start the silkworm eggs when the leaves...
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Calleta hatchlings
The Calleta caterpillars (Eupackardia calleta) started hatching today. These beautiful moths are native to much of the American southwest. I am raising them mostly for the fun of it – they do produce...
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Am I blue…. ?
These silkworm eggs are starting to turn “blue” – the developing worm inside separates from the shell, and they get a hazy lighter color. About half the eggs in this photo are blue – the others are...
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Well, hello there!
This little guy is a Bombyx mori hatchling. They start out at two to three millimeters long, covered in long hairs
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So many hairy babies….
They hatched out just a couple of days ago, but they’re already noticeably larger. They will grow until their skins can’t expand any further, and then shed. On the bottom right corner, you can see the...
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For I will consider my moth Jeoffry.
This is a male Polyphemus moth. I’m always fascinated by the variety of scales and textures on their wings, and I got some close-up photos so you can really see why butterflies and moths are called...
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Too much sausage, not enough casing.
After five days, the silkworms have grown SO much! Their heads are the same size as they were before, but now the heads look tiny on their thick bodies. The bodies look like they’re over-stuffed –...
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New skins, new attitudes
Overnight, the majority of the caterpillars changed their skins. They spin a pad of silk, and then hook their rear feet in the silk; then they wiggle and shimmy their way out of the old skin. This...
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Digging Out From Under
My grandmother’s spider lilies. They come up like red fireworks in the fall, year after year; she gave them to me not long before she died. I started drafting this back in February; I have run into...
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