I finished up my pinned bug display! This project was started in 2019 and I finally have the whole thing filled with appropriate labels. Note: She was, in fact, not done with rearranging the case. This male ox beetle was hatched in my terrarium, and I’m hoping that he completed his duties with the two females in the enclosure before moving onto the afterlife. I couldn’t get his wings open, James had to help me! I’m working on a riparium to propagate some of the tomato stalks that I’m cutting up for the hornworms, since they only eat the leaves and the nodes can root. Also this carrot decided that it wanted to live so I stuck it in the tank too. My son and I have started working on plant identification and he’s keeping a journal of grasses, flowers, trees, etc. Found this giant elephant ear tuber drowning and rescued it. <Photo lost to blogspot hosting failure. It was pretty pitiful, no leaves, just a tuber.> It is very happy in the pond Brazilian Jasmine planted near ...
