I love how soft and plush his fur is and how his little trousers are packed with red pollen.
Tag: fauna
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Catnip and Bee
Bumblebee and Catnip
Tomato Hornworms
O gross!
The little bastards–I found three of them–have eaten one bunch of tomato plants. OVERNIGHT!!! The plants were fine yesterday, with no sign of caterpillars. When I went out to water them this evening, I noticed that something had chomped on some of the baby romas, and that a bunch of foliage was gone. GONE! Like, entire branches!
I realize these will eventually (like, after a month of chomping) turn into moths, which would be fine, except for the month of chomping part. I don’t have enough tomato plants to feed them, so The Three Little Caterpillars went bye-bye.
Red Spotted Purple
Dispatch from the Spider House of Horrors
I wish I could say that this was the only spider on the windshield of my car, but it wasn’t. That’s not even the bad part, though. As I was driving home–on a twisty, hilly road, mind you–I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a harvestman spider INSIDE THE CAR. AIEEE!!! I think I should get some sort of commendation or medal or something for not going off the road.
A Plague of Harvestmen
I’m cat sitting again, and the owner emailed me last weekend to warn me that there were spiders camping out on her doorstep. Lots of harvestman spiders, to be exact.
This morning, after about half the spiders had scattered:
This afternoon, when there were still 20-30 spiders hanging out on the garage door:






















