j2davis2005: Baby lady bug showed up in my garden! Help me get rid of some aphids.
j2davis2005: Green roof planter cherry tomato plants
j2davis2005: Bee happy!
j2davis2005: Interesting bug on my sunflower. Found two of these guys on the sunflower plant. Have no idea what they are. But I love how the garden is always teaming with life. I wish our science and biology classes could be taught in nature. Ao much more fun! #epicya
j2davis2005: Check out this beautiful male valley carpenter bee foraging on the moringa flower! #epicyardfarm
j2davis2005: To compare, this is the female valley carpenter bee. #epicyardfarm
j2davis2005: The male (gold) and female (black) valley carpenter bees hanging out in our moringa trees. #epicyardfarm
j2davis2005: assassin bugs hatching!
j2davis2005: assassin bugs hatching!
j2davis2005: assassin bugs hatching!
j2davis2005: assassin bugs hatching!
j2davis2005: Leafhopper assassin bug with prey
j2davis2005: Beautiful garden visitor! #epicyardfarm
j2davis2005: Precious butterfly eggs!
j2davis2005: Giant Swallowtail Butterfly caterpillar hatched!!! #epicyardfarm
j2davis2005: The bees are loving on our pumpkin flowers this morning. #epicyardfarm
j2davis2005: Even the leafhopper assassin bug has joined the party on the Ping Tung eggplant. #epicyardfarm
j2davis2005: This bee has orange color pollen because of the nasturtium pollens! So cute! #ediblegarden #epicyardfarm #growyourown #growfoodnotlawn #growsomethinggreen
j2davis2005: Lots of bees are loving on our blackberry bush! Can't wait till the fruit start ripening! #ediblegarden #epicyardfarm #growyourown #growfoodnotlawn #growsomethinggreen
j2davis2005: Bee assassin bug feasting on a small worker bee on our sunflower... #polyculture #permaculture #epicyardfarm #ediblegarden #urbangarden #growyourown #growfoodnotlawns #growsomethinggreen
j2davis2005: 🐝❤️🌿 we let lots of our volunteer basil go to flower so the neighborhood bees have flowers to forage all summer long! #epicyardfarm #ediblegarden #permaculture #polyculture #urbangarden #growyourown #growfoodnotlawns #bee #saveourbees
j2davis2005: Digger bee on our Bocking 14 Russian comfrey
j2davis2005: Lady bee resting on the weeping mulberry leaf
j2davis2005: Exuvia left from a dragonfly nymph that grew up in our pond!
j2davis2005: Exuvia left from a dragonfly nymph that grew up in our pond!
j2davis2005: Mediterranean mantis (Iris oratoria) egg sac (ootheca)! Love these guys~
j2davis2005: Check out this female Mediterranean mantis (Iris oratoria) praying mantis and the left over legs from possibly a wasp.
j2davis2005: Mediterranean mantis on the Pakistan mulberry tree
j2davis2005: Check this lady Mediterranean mantis out! Blending into our dying Red Baron peach tree.
j2davis2005: Check out this locust nymph. I bet the holes on some of our eggplant leaves are the result of this.