Hope for Bees

As you probably know the bee population has been on the decline for many years.  Some of the causes for this include pesticide use, loss of forage lands…

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Beautiful Bugs

This is a picture of the Milkweed Tussock caterpillar.  There has been a lot of news lately about the decimation of the insect population which is actually quite…

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Hoverfly

Hoverflies – They may look like small bees or wasps but they are actually flies (although they are sometimes called sweat bees).  They are little things being about…

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Portabella Patterns

Once you start looking closely at nature you become accustomed to seeing patterns everywhere.  Really.  Like when cooking with portabella mushrooms.  If you look at the underside of…

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