March 17, 2013

Spring 2013

Wild garlic (Allium triquetrum) flowers

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) flowers

Arugula (Eruca sativa) flower

Grape hyacinth (Muscari)

Within the past few days, hundreds or thousands of these Boxelder Bugs (Boisea trivittata) have suddenly gathered in my backyard. I tried to get the chickens to eat them, but they turned up their beaks to the crunchy critters. Today we noticed the bugs are covering the south facing walls of our house with eggs.

Reading up on them, I'm not too worried about them messing up my garden since they are pretty specialized in their diets, preferring boxelder trees, though they could do damage to my apples, pears, or plums later on.

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bird (5), flowers (37), garden (21), insect (21), plants (17), spring (6)

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Birds (27), Creatures (75), Degree (56), Flowers (41), Santa Rosa (21)

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