Thursday, April 8, 2010

All bugs





I present you with images of a ladybug (keeping the rosebud safe), a greenbottle fly, a grasshopper, and a crane fly. Everything gets to live in my garden except arrowhead flatworms. I find all the insect life kind of balances out, some becoming food for others or for the birds. Caterpillars may eat my plants, but grow up to pollinate them.

4 comments:

  1. Good call on letting life live. Can you do a painting of passion flower please?

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  2. but why not the arrowhead flatworms?

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  3. They kill earthworms quite brutally and decimate earthworm populations. And they are non-native, having stowed away on exotic potted plants.

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