Posted in Insect, tagged heebie jeebies, spoon!, ticks on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
(deer tick image from Wikipedia Commons)
While doing some online research (that’s a way to surf the web AND get paid for it!) I came across an amusing song about ticks. Oddly enough, there aren’t many lyrical odes to these small blood sucking creatures…
Larry Heagle came up with the amusing Wood Tick Song. Check out the [...]
Posted in Amphibians, Insect, Library, tagged amphibian, bugs, children's books, endangered, frogs, gopher frog, Insect, Mo Willems, toys on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I happened to look at the Yahoo article on the endangered Mississippi gopher frog… and then did some more searching and found this interesting article from the Georgia area Nature Conservancy.
Check out what a gopher frog sounds like here. Hmmm…are we sure they didn’t just tape my husband sleeping? ;-p
Best of all: they glow!
“Before they [...]
Posted in Bird, Daily Life, Insect, Library, tagged Bird, books, cicada, Insect, Library, life list, louvre, north rim, sandhill crane, seychelles, travel, zion on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So…what’s up with this recent trend in “before you die” literature?! (Let’s call them BYD books).
I see these books at the front of bookstores, mentioned in magazine articles and, most recently, featured in the new books section of my library. January’s issue of the Smithsonian has an article talking about all of this. Can we [...]
Posted in Insect, Scottish, tagged Insect, Midge, Scotland, song on November 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
(Picture from Scotsman.com)
Occasionally this blog mentions things about midges (phantom midges) and then things of a Scottish nature (kilts, flying ants in Scotland…). So now, I bring to you: Scottish Midges!
Apparently, they are quite a problem and not something the tourism bureau often mentions. Well, one in particular called the Highland Midge or Culicoides impunctatus (which just begs for [...]
Posted in Insect, tagged bread, Insect, spider on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
How cool is this!? This was my present for Sweetest Day (don’t even get me started on what a sham “holiday” this is!) from my husband who knows me so well. I love it! Thanks to Wixey Bakery for another wonderful creation.
It is, however, definitely not for eating as it is a bit, uh, firm. [...]
Posted in Insect, tagged Insect, beetle, blister on October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Photo from Bruce Marlin, black blister beetle, Epicauta pannsylvanica shown on Goldenrod, Solidago sp.
When the goldenrod starts to bloom, I know it’s time for the rise of the blister beetle at a local park. Every year in the fall, the females and males meet up for a little beetle lovin’ at this one particular place [...]
Posted in Bad plants, Insect, tagged Insect, wasp, weeds on September 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A few weekends ago, I was out mucking about in what I loosely call a garden and noticed an odd thing. I had let the weeding go for quite a while and then we had buckets of rain, so the weeds were towering over my sad, rabbit eaten hostas. It was a bit overwhelming, so I just tucked in and [...]
Posted in Insect, tagged appalachia, ID, Insect, leafhopper, nature, planthopper, poverty, treehopper on August 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So, I made it back home with only two chigger bites. And I slathered on the bug spray, too (so far, I am NOT impressed with Picaridin….although, I was not bothered by any skeeters or ticks). And I have to say that Rt. 247 gets my award for the most twisty, scary drive this year. [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Insect, Random, tagged chigger, Insect on August 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m heading out for a weekend of tramping through tall grass and woods at the Edge of Appalachia Preserve in southern Ohio. There is a workshop there about planthoppers, leafhoppers and treehoppers (collectively known unscientifically as “the hoppers”). My pathetic camera (did I mention I wanted a new camera for my birthday, anyone?) can not [...]
Posted in Insect, tagged cicada, fungus, Insect, recipe on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For the past few days, I have been finding dead or near death dog day cicadas everywhere. One in my weed patch (not dead yet), one on the mailbox (I’m feeling better…) and one on the sidewalk just yesterday (a late cicada, a cicada that has gone to meet it’s maker, it’s pushing up daisies).
I suppose most of [...]
