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Jewelwings and Other Things
Summer seems to have hit early this year, as it’s already ninety-some degrees, the coneflowers are starting to flower, and I have acquired the Hippie Gardeners tan, which consists of white Birkenstock...
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There Be Dragons At The Bottom Of My Garden
Green Dragon, Arisaema dracontium, to be precise. It’s a marvelous woodland wildflower that slowly unfurls to reveal its leaf. Yes, leaf! It may look like two leaves, but, it’s one leaf that forks...
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Garden Wrap-Up
This is a follow-up to two recent articles of mine. A clearer picture of a water tiger (may be a different subfamily from other article) First, thanks to the expert ID of fellow team blogger Ursula...
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Green Darner Dragonfly
green darner dragonfly on Echinacea purpurea As I walked past the Nanoprairie one morning to get the newspaper, I spied a huge dragonfly amid the coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea). It was so still for...
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Dragonfly…OH!!! The Humanity!
I knew that dragonfly were cannibals while still in the aquatic nymph stage, as a matter of fact, I recently read that if you put several dragonfly nymphs in a jar very soon you’d have just one really...
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I Live Among Dragonflies
I live among dragonflies this summer. Plentiful rain has drenched parts of Georgia (and indeed much of the eastern United States) this year. I know that must account for the increase in these beautiful...
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I have been looking out on the garden this week with something like despair. The weather is either too hot to work outside for more than a few minutes—or it’s warm but lovely. The problem is that this...
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Cultivating the Wild Suburbia
Using the word “cultivating” and “wild” in the same sentence seems a bit odd, doesn’t it? Yet that is what I have been doing here in my little slice of suburbia. Again, you might say, that seems odd –...
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Welcoming Critters: Dancing Dragons
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti This year the butterflies were strangely absent. There was but a handful...
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Cream of the Gardening Crop: Skimmers
I’ve a new dragonfly at my place. I was excited when I saw the overall purple hue of this beauty. I knew it was one I had never seen before and at first I struggled to identify it. Pretty coloring...
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Inviting Dragonflies to Lunch in the Garden
Erythemis simplicicollis (male) I noticed someone enjoying a bit of lunch in the garden recently. It was an Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly (Erythemis simplicicollis) and based on the coloration, a male....
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Pest Free?
Pest free is a very desirable trait in plants according to the nursery trade. I watched a large cockroach race across my counter today and I certainly wanted to be pest free at that moment! Pest is...
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Ladies of the Day
A gal from this week resting on some native rush. Notwithstanding their common name, I’ll start by clarifying that they aren’t all ladies. After all, in North America the order odonata need male and...
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A Dozen Dragonflies
Male Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly (Orthemis ferruginea) are probably the most eyecatching of Odonata This time of year it is always a playground of critters at my place. Especially noticeable in recent...
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