Bugs of The Garden

Unknown

8/4/10

Monarch Butterfly

7/5/10

Unknown

6/20/10

Delphinia picta- Picture winged fly

5/31/10

Unknown Fly

6/6/10

Unknown Fly

6/11/10

6/12/10

these flies love to pollinate

naughty flies

White M Hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album)

6/9/10

Unknown Spider

6/11/10

Popillia japonica, Japanese beetle

6/16/10

Week Highlights

• Poor Jack, my favorite dog of all time is having surgery Friday. Nothing "major", he is being neutered but I still worry of course.
• Today I made a few bucks selling plants, and everything I make is going to squirreled away carefully for the most part. Today I sold the shasta daisy (and I have an order for more of them to be started), the bee balm (more to be started as well), a few dozen mix sized hens and chicks and 2 lemon balms. Not too bad at all, eh?
• The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup...just in case you live in a cave. That's big news for my wonderful husband Crazy Mike. The last time they won was way before Mike or I was born. I never knew anything about hockey but learned so that I could have something in common with Mike.
• The Sparkle strawberries are slowing down now. But the Berries Galore is starting to ripen.
• Sour Cherries are ripening.
• I saw my first Japanese Beetle. I think I am going to try trapping them this year. They are very very bad in my garden and will chew everything to nubs. They are a couple weeks early this year.