My son love apples. So in 2005 we got him an apple tree for his birthday. I know that it may seem like an odd gift to give an eleven year old boy, but it was actually very fun. It can take up to five years for an apple tree to start bearing and we […]
Check out this big guy! He is a tomato hornworm or the caterpillar phase of the Hummingbird Moth, which are way cool when you see them. They really do look like (and as big as) a hummingbird. It is in the Order Lepidoptera, family Sphingidae, genus and species Manduca sexta. This guy was about 2 […]
The truth is that fire ant do provide a benefit. They eat ticks, chiggers, termites, boll weevils, flee hopper, cotton bollworms, pink bollworms, tobacco budworms, pecan weevils, hickory shuckworms, flies, fleas, tobacco budworms, corn earworms and cockroaches. Of course, they will also eat baby animals, seedlings and saplings – especially in the veggie garden. In […]
We have a possum that has been coming to our backyard to eat the cat food on a regular basis. We don’t have any problem with this at all since the cats seem to be cool with him and he is actually very tidy and considerate. They can look a little ferocious though, and the […]
I would advise that you try to find a way to embrace the diversity of wildlife that comes to your yard, but if you have a few animals that are just not considerate to the landscape and ruin things for everyone else, there are solutions. Try some of these: Armadillos – use live traps to […]
I love dragonflies. I once saw one take down a fly that was almost as big as it was. I love watching them. They are like little helicopters in their movements. This one was a regular in our back yard a couple of years ago. As near as I can tell, it is some sort […]
Every year I have a small problem with thrips. It seems like they emerge a couple of weeks before their predators do. Thrips are those tiny little vampire gnat-like things that suck the blood out of your roses and make thier poor little heads droop. You can’t see them without a magnifying glass, but you […]
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Typograph is a standards compliant theme with a JQuery powered tabbed sidebar box and an ad under the first post on the index page. This theme has no images and is purely based on CSS elements and typography. Ideal for future customization. Typograph was styled "from the ground up" on a highly customized version of the Sandbox theme.
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