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Friday photo – Yellow Admiral butterfly, August 2014
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Tagged butterflies, ecological gardening, ecology, insects, local natives, nettles, weedscaping
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Friday photo – 2013’s “also rans” part 2
I know it’s Saturday, but today instead of a link post I’m doing part two of the photos I almost displayed as a Friday photo. Each of these photos was good enough and interesting enough to go in, but got … Continue reading
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Tagged asteraceae, blossom, chickpeas, corymbia, dandelion, featherflower, firstsummer, flies, grasshopper, hanging baskets, harvest, insects, kalanchoe, lime, low water use, mating, orange morrison, peanuts, pelargonium, pot plants, predation, red flowering gum, secondspring, seedhead, seedpods, shadow, verticordia, verticordia nitens, west indian lime, zone 4
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Friday photo – Larvae damage in tomato
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Tagged crop loss, insects, larvae, pest management, pests, tomatoes, zone 4
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Native bees and my new “beehive”
When I was in my late teens or early twenties, I noticed a bee on my dad’s foxglove that was rather unexpected. Instead of yellow stripes, it had light blue stripes. I thought I was seeing things. But no, it … Continue reading
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Tagged bee walls, bees, ecological gardening, fauna, functional art, habitat, insecticide, insects, microhabitat, native bees, wildlife habitat
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Friday photo – Tomato bugs
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Tagged harvest, insects, pest control, pests, productive understorey, secondspring, tomatoes, volunteers
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Friday photo – Borage and grass bins
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Tagged agroecology, borage, couch grass, herbs, insects, nutrient recycling, soil building, soil conditioning, soil remediation, weed control, weedscaping
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The Fly In Your Eye
Between sick children and missing daycare and various things, I’m not getting many posts finished this week. Which means I’ll have heaps of backlog next week when I get to sit down to them all 🙂 But for now, can … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, flies, insects, low maintenance, pest control, remediation, soil conditioning
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