The Devil’s Coach Horse Beetle
A group of Japanese visitors with sharper eyes than mine spotted this beetle just off the paved perimeter path and
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Bugs
A Cabbage White
The birds scattered and disappeared ahead of me as I bicycled slowly on the north leg of the perimeter path.
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Spittlebugs, Ladybugs & Company
This thistle in the marshy area on the west side is host to a variety of little sapsuckers. There’s a
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Aphid Attack and Counterattack
The hairless stems of this vicia americana (American or Purple Vetch) are under full-scale attack by pestiferous aphids, who may have been aided
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Now Blooming: Cleveland Sage
A big bush along the west side of the loop path, in the island between the paved and unpaved branches
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Arresting Mosquitos
Walking back to my car with a bit of glow in my heart and a smile on my lips from
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Where there’s fennel …
Where there’s fennel, there’s probably the Anise Swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon). It was fluttering and landing at the top of the
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Another random act of beauty
This patch of garden iris along the north side perimeter path certainly isn’t a wildflower. Nor is it likely that
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Bee on the C and an E
Thanks to the sharp eye of Bay Nature magazine intern Michelaina Johnson, my lens caught a honeybee doing its thing
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