Kayla, Joshua and I have created a bug hunting ritual into our summer daily lives. When weather permits, not rainning or too hot, we take a little walk on our farm or to "Larry's Lane" to look for bugs. We sometimes also find interesting creatures in our herb garden. Our rule is simple: If it looks scary, (like a spider, or something that we don't recognize) leave it where you find it. I always bring my camera and document our findings so we can remember what we saw.
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This blog is to showcase our findings, some whom we left in nature, some whom made it to our bug catcher for a short trip home and release later at the end of the day, lastly some whom we kept a little longer for observation. No animals are purposely harmed during this adventure, occasionally just a little smoothered by Joshua and we try our best to return every creature to their home just as we found them.


Saturday, July 26, 2008

Look who's hiding in our garden

Our overgrown dill plant and parsley where you can find some creatures making homes or maybe just visiting for a meal.
This is how we got started with our bug-hunting-mania. We found some caterpillars on the dill plant and raised them to be black swallowtail butterfly.
We find a lot of grasshoppers in the field during our bug walk but look who's visiting today. He is missing something, can you guess?
And this guy (Citrus Flatid Planthopper) is very small but jumps very quick. Daddy long legs, and he looks like a spider but he isn't.

And here he is again close up. Can you see those two tiny eyes. For more info: http://www.gardensafari.net/english/harvestmen.htm
http://www.wnrmag.com/stories/2000/jun00/daddy.htm And lastly I have no idea who he is and what he is doing, probably up to no good.

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