My experience watching insects can be described as “Oooh, what’s that? What’s it doing? Where did it go?” They are ephemeral delights, some of them as brilliant as a hummingbird. On a recent walk in a local nature preserve where I am normally birdwatching, I decided to slow down and spend some time observing insects. I discovered that it is hard to make much progress. There is so much drama in the insect world. Epic battles play out all around you.
Nicely done, Bill. Thank you. I'd like to think Rumi would get a kick out of having the circle of love in his love poem broadened even further to include wasps, ants, and harvestmen.
What a beautiful post and I love those words by Rumi. I don’t use any pesticides in my garden, and I try to grow organically however, we tend to get wasps on the roof of our house so we have someone spray the eaves seasonally
I am wondering if this contradicts with my efforts to grow a homegrown national park. I am also wondering if there might be other solutions just like Tallamay suggests some for how to deal with mosquitoes in his book.
Excellent. I keep a magnifying glass next to my favourite garden seat - a couple of days ago I found a very handsome wasp (i thought) patrolling the cracks in the paving there - it took me a while to identify it as gooden's nomad bee - fascinating - and the ants were treating it as a roundabout - just going round it
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Nicely done, Bill. Thank you. I'd like to think Rumi would get a kick out of having the circle of love in his love poem broadened even further to include wasps, ants, and harvestmen.
What a beautiful post and I love those words by Rumi. I don’t use any pesticides in my garden, and I try to grow organically however, we tend to get wasps on the roof of our house so we have someone spray the eaves seasonally
I am wondering if this contradicts with my efforts to grow a homegrown national park. I am also wondering if there might be other solutions just like Tallamay suggests some for how to deal with mosquitoes in his book.
A good reminder to notice the small creatures. Your photos are beautiful. The detail is amazing.
To slow down and realize connections is rewarding. Thank you for sharing.
Excellent. I keep a magnifying glass next to my favourite garden seat - a couple of days ago I found a very handsome wasp (i thought) patrolling the cracks in the paving there - it took me a while to identify it as gooden's nomad bee - fascinating - and the ants were treating it as a roundabout - just going round it