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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Plants and creatures play multiple roles in a wildlife garden.
Restoring The Landscape With Native Plants: Rudbeckia: A Vector for Parasitism & Predation |
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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I like the looks of ambush bugs. They're sorta alien looking.
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Insects in general are rather alien looking. You can see how movies have used these creatures to create life forms for their far off worlds. As I become more familar with the life stages of the insect world I am astounded by the diversity and often real beauty.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Just the other day, I was thinking how exploring the variety of insects attracted to my natives opens up a whole world of unique and beautiful creatures--it is akin to birdwatching for me now.
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"If suburbia were landscaped with meadows, prairies, thickets or forests, or combinations of these, then the water would sparkle, fish would be good to eat again, birds would sing and human spirits would soar." ~ Lorrie Otto ~ A Native Backyard Blog ~ |
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Check this out.
Garden insect boxes Quote:
Pictures from spring before plants grow out,so you can see the wood left about the garden. Wood,wood piles, rock piles and cut grass stacks make great habitat. |
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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I leave dead wood all over the place. I know a lot of folk don't like the looks of it but... I do. That site on insect boxes.... have you ever added any to your property?
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biodiversity, bug, bugbad, good, landscape, native plants, parasitism, predation, relative, restore, restoring, rudbeckia, vector, wildlife, wildlife garden habitat |
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