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Trough Cleaning Day(s)! Yesterday started the task of trough cleaning and servicing for our livestock tanks. The cattle have mooved to their large and lush marsh pasture, so no one was there to pester me or opinionate about my…
Wildlife Wednesday Hornworm In today’s installment of Wildlife Wednesday, we will discuss the situation going on in the photo that I took and shared for Mystery Monday. What you see here is a hornworm or sphinx moth caterpillar that has…
Meet Homalodisca Vitripennis, the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter In today’s installment of Wildlife Wednesday I’d like to introduce Homalodisca Vitripennis, the glassy-winged sharpshooter. We discovered this “new to us” species on Sunday 8-24-25 on a rainy day in the Agroforestry garden. It…
Today I happened across this tiny beautiful living stained glass window. I felt very fortunate to be allowed to take these pictures. What we have here is a Phyciodes Phaon “phaon crescent.” Meet Phyciodes Phaon “Phaon Crescent.” I got to…
Meet Aedes Albopictus the Asian Tiger Mosquito While waiting for the bus stop with my 2nd grader I noticed a mosquito on the back of my hand. I didn’t feel her, which usually results in an immediate reactive slap, no-…
In today’s installment of Wildlife Wednesday, I’d like to discuss wildflowers! But…. they aren’t critters, so why here? Why on Wildlife Wednesday? BECAUSE wildlife relies on them! In many cases, so do we, without even acknowledging it. Ahead of the…
A beautiful sky facing south over the Myakka River from the bridge. The land on the left belongs to Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast, straight ahead is Myakka River State Park – Sarasota, Florida and on the right is the back…