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Garden Bug

By on April 25, 2010 in insects

Could anyone ID this bug,it is being cared for by ants so it could be an aphid of some sort? JennyE

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The case of the black moss

By on March 25, 2009 in garden, tree

A couple of years back I planted a fever tree outside our gate.  The tree never really took off.  It didn’t die or look sickly, it just never seemed to grow.  I put it down to the fact that the soil I had planted it in was this terrible, sandy, red earth and decided to [...]

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Who’s been eating my Halleria?

By on March 10, 2009 in insects

We got three Halleria Lucida plants at the plant fair last spring. Two are doing swimmingly, while the third seems to have been infected with a fungi, or eggs laid by little miggies… Have a look and compare the two pictures. Do you know what those little miggies are? The Halleria infected by them is [...]

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Accidental Bee Photography

By on February 14, 2009 in indigenous, insects

I was taking a photograph of a Wild Garlic (tulbaghia violacea or isihaqa) flower this morning and a bee flew into the shot as I took the photograph. Pretty cool.

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Swarm of Dragonflies

By on February 10, 2009 in insects

There is a swarm of dragonflies (I would estimate 20 to 30) currently living in my garden.  They are most probably there because of an abundance of food – they eat other smaller insect such as aphids and flies, so I ain’t complaining.  Plus, they are pretty cool to watch darting about the place and [...]

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