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Native Solitary Bees: Don’t Make Your Landscape Too Tidy This Fall
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Cooler evening temperatures might have you switching gears from planting and maintaining your landscape to fall decorating and garden cleanup chores. While cleaning up diseased and pest-infested plants in your yard and garden are important to prevent problems in the…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Ashley, bees, beneficial insects, garden cleanup, Pollinators
Firefly or Lightening Bug? You Decide!
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This summer I have witnessed more fireflies than I’ve ever seen. Each evening gracing our fields and pasture, it is truly unbelievable to see thousands of beautiful and magical flashes of light as night falls. My 4 year old absolutely…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Ashley, beneficial insects, fireflies, Insects
These Wasps Are Not Social Distancing!
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Wasps are some of the most highly disliked insects and are often all linked together with bees as being “bad”. When my co-workers and I led a group of elementary school children on a bee lesson, our very first question…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Ashley, wasps, yellowjackets
Hidden Garden Party: Who’s Eating Whom?
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Who loves a party? I know I do, especially a summer BBQ with all the family favorites! Insects are no exception and really know how to have some fun. Pictured above is a party of aphids, which are tiny little…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening, Lawn & Garden Tags: aphids, Author:Ashley, Insects, natural enemies
Carpenter Bees Are Native Pollinators
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A sure sign of spring is the emergence of carpenter bees. Have you seen the perfectly circular small holes that these bees chew into wood? I mean honestly, I have trouble drawing a perfect circle freehand, much less chewing one! …
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden, Master Gardener Tags: Author:Ashley, bees, beneficial insects, Insects, Pollinators
Ground Beetles are Beneficial in Your Garden
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A few months ago, my daughter was gifted The Bug Book, by Sue Fliess. It highlights many insects and has wonderful, very detailed pictures, with few words, which makes my bug-loving 4-year-old quite happy. It quickly became one of our…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Ashley, beneficial insects, ground beetles
Let Spiders Help in Your Vegetable Garden
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A few years ago during the early spring, my brother, mother, and I noticed several quarter-sized, brownish-colored egg cases in our high tunnel. Our research taught us they were gifts from black and yellow garden spiders, Argiope aurantia. These spiders…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening, Master Gardener Tags: Author:Ashley, beneficial insects, spiders
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