let’s go to the dollar store, see what our fav snacks are. then go to the theaters. i’m ok with silence but i’m also ok w talking quietly during the movie lol.
before or after the movie we could talk and enjoy the weather since it’s getting colder here finally.
Back in the spring, I noticed a couple of plants in the (mostly) wildflower garden that were absolutely swarmed with aphids. So many aphids.
I watched them for a few days and, sure enough, a ladybug or two came along.
They ate some aphids, but not enough to make much difference. That took ladybug larvae, which are absolute killing machines.
A couple of ravenous lacewing larvae showed up, too.
The aphids appeared around May 1, and the first ladybugs about two weeks later. The ladybug larvae went to work by May 19, and within a week they had eaten every single aphid and moved on to other parts of the garden.
Historia del Mundo (El Árbol de la Vida) / Tiburcio Soteno Fernández / ceramic / undated.
I am fascinated by the Mexican Tree of Life folk art form, though in this example I find myself drawn to the bottom half, with its demons and imps and the damned. My people.