Thursday, November 01, 2007
KSR Kingworth shares the Ladybugs and Aphids
We have a couple dozen rose bushes in our yard, and as winter faded they became infested with aphids. I went down to Gray's Garden Center and came home with a cast of thousands. (See the first photo is the Middle-Fork Ladybugs Archive.) In all honesty, I was more interested in taking pictures than getting rid of the aphids, and so I sought out the best lit most populous spots and dumped a few hundred ladybugs right on top of them. This is not the recommended procedure for efficacy in aphid elimination.
The fig tree was also infested, and provided the big green background for this picture.
KSR Kingworth has been so kind as to post this picture with a credit Lady Bugs do a lot of Good at her blog, which appears to be only named visually. Very cool.
This picture has been hotlinked in a few other spots. Here is its list of hotlinks from a few weeks ago: dLadybugEatsAphid.html
Thanks KSR Kingworth!
NEWSLANG and Our Maple Tree
This has been a good year for pictures of the Sugar Maple in our front yard. I've been home during all parts of the day, and the rain and wind didn't leave the tree shorn of glory. Last year the tree was totally red for a few busy days, and then the rain laid it bare.
Our Maple Tree Middle-Fork Archive
NEWSLANG posts this picture under the caption
A Cold and Wet November Drama at Nexopia.
Thanks NEWSLANG!
