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Friday, May 17, 2013
Cloud Comfort
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Mantises
Last September, my husband brought me a mantis egg case he found while working in the yard.
The ootheca was attached to a dried Nandina heavenly bamboo branch which I placed in a small vase on the kitchen counter for a few weeks...
until I moved the branch to a pot of dirt outside on the patio table where I could see the egg case from the window. On April 23, about a dozen tiny green mantises were crawling on the branch.
Over the next week dozens more mantis nymphs emerged from the egg case.
This morning I found just one little mantis on the flower pot.
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| September 26, 2012 |
The ootheca was attached to a dried Nandina heavenly bamboo branch which I placed in a small vase on the kitchen counter for a few weeks...
until I moved the branch to a pot of dirt outside on the patio table where I could see the egg case from the window. On April 23, about a dozen tiny green mantises were crawling on the branch.
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| April 23, 2013 |
Over the next week dozens more mantis nymphs emerged from the egg case.
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| April 26, 2013 |
This morning I found just one little mantis on the flower pot.
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
Skywatch
Nearly full "Pink" moon setting this morning behind a pair of saguaro cacti reminiscent of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial's long fingers. "I'll be right here."
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