Garden Bugs

We have thick fog here this morning, with a muted shiny globe of sun trying to break through.  Once the fog clears the sun is meant to shine, but it will still be cooler than it has been.  Autumn is advancing and winter is coming!

We have had a few different insect sightings around the garden over the last few weeks.  Insects are always with us, if we only stop to see them.  This one is a Grasshopper that was sitting on the fence post.

These two Praying Mantids were presumably mating and not trying to eat each other, as is their cannibalistic tendency.  The female should soon be laying eggs that will hatch next spring.

Stick Insects are not that common, at least to find.  Their camouflage can be highly efficient, disguising themselves as twigs (brown or green) on different trees – we only see them when they move away from their usual haunts.

Our Brassicas (cabbage family plants) have been getting ravaged by Cabbage White caterpillars, so yesterday I dusted the plants with some Derris Dust and squashed any little green fatties that I could find.  

Hidden among the foliage I found the beginnings of a cauliflower.

This cabbage is also beginning to heart up.  I thought I might have planted things too close together, but nature has a way of still doing what it needs to do.

I found this quote the other day, by Hans Christian Anderson –

“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.”

Enjoy nature all around you J

Margaret.

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