Every now and then a small, ordinary critter carries you straight back to childhood. For me, nothing does it faster than a doodlebug. Long before I knew the name “ant lion” or understood anything about entomology and insect life cycles, I knew the joy of crouching in the sand, piddling with a pine needle, and…
A large tree and a beautiful rose were gone in my landscape over the years. The tree was an October Glory Maple (Acer Rubrum). The rose bush was the Knockout Rose (Rosa Cultivar). Let me first describe for you the symptoms of the maple tree that I never noticed. In the early summer, the Maple…
I was looking at one of my citrus trees a few days ago and was so excited to see something I had not seen in quite a while – a ladybug! Then I noticed it didn’t quite look like what I think of as a ladybug. It was orange in color and had a lot…