Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Not one but two invertebrates caught!

It is definitely a smokey haze today, there's  wildfires somewhere and the wind is just blowing the smoke all over. So a very brown hazy day today.












The sidewalks are not that brown, it really is that hazy. Okay so the garden sidewalk maybe a bit dirtier but the shade fuzziness tells also how hazy it is. I can't smell anything of smoke thankfully because that would mean really bad conditions.











Larva number one was on the smaller onion in the corner. Very obvious given the coloring so picked that one off and tossed it into the bush. The second one I had seen the rampaging holes in the pepper leaves and finally caught the little bugger armyworm in the act.

A Western (or Common?) Buckeye butterfly stopped by and rested in the shade of the squash plant. It stayed there long enough for not only getting a picture but short video as well (only 13 seconds) because that was the only way I could get a good shot of the wings.

That's all the excitement for today. There's plenty of tomatillo flowers happening and even some fruit forming, four male squash flowers but still waiting for timing on the female opening up. I nipped off some buds on the pepper plant because it's still way too young to be making fruit. Nothing seemed to need watering as I watered yesterday. Even the pots were doing okay so I'll be taking pictures of the tomato seedlings and posting those in the garden group for trade. Not sure what but will see what people have.

Hazy, lazy days of summer for sure.


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