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IPM bug of the day
This is something you might see in your garden and a good reason to think twice about spraying any pesticides.
This is a hover (syrphid) fly pupa. It resembles a water drop and is formed after the larvae eats massive numbers of garden pests.
The friendly wiggle butt hover fly is easily seen inside and will eclose to pollinate your garden and make more larvae.
If you spray, you kill the good bugs as well as the bad. Watching the natural predators care for your food is delightful and makes gardening more interesting and fun.
The bugs want a car apparently.
One of the many fun things about sacrificial nasturtiums is finding secret messages from the leaf miners. 😉
The words "USS Liberty" spoken in Congress for the first time
Representative Thomas Massie Delivers Speech on the Anniversary of the Attack on the USS Liberty.
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This is the first time the name of the USS Liberty has been mentioned in a speech or during a discussion on the floor of the United States Congress.
Wasp people how long is a tiny nest active?
I have a paper wasp nest that the queen made under a stone w about 1 inch of clearance to the ground. It is a flat stone propped on my seam of the bulkhead doors. It can grow out, but there's no room.
If this happens, do they keep it small and stop using it or do they just make it a flat nest?
Since we're doing faces....
Fraternal Potter Wasp
(Eumenes fraternus) on a baby's breath blossom. 🖤
Wanna host wasps in a safe spot??
This is a good lil house for them. I have a paper wasp nest starting on the lid of mine right now :)
Good people at r/friendlymonarchs teaching about beneficial insects to counter auto-hate
I love that the mods are educating monarch butterfy enthusiasts that hating on beneficial insects like wasps isn't the best way to support monarchs.
Go join in and help educate please.