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The Amazing Lady Beetles
If you have roses blooming in your yard in the winter--or trying to bloom--check to see if there's...
A lady beetle searching for aphids on a rosebud in the winter. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A toxic chemical, a defense mechanism, oozing from a lady beetle, the prey of a cellar spider in this summer image. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Did You Celebrate Happy Solstice Day?
Did you celebrate Happy Solstice Day on Dec. 21? That's the astronomical moment,...
A lady beetle, aka ladybug, covered with rain droplets on Artemisia in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Lion's Tail: The 'Mane' Event
The lady beetle, aka ladybug, scurried up the lion's tail plant,...
The lion's tail, Leonotis leonurus, is a native of South Africa and attracts birds, butterflies and hummingbirds. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A lady beetle, aka ladybug, looks for aphids and other small bodied insects on the lion's tail. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The lady beetle, aka ladybug, blends in with her environment, the spiked orange blossoms of a lion's tail. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Which One Is Not Like the Other?
So here are all these milkweed bugs clustered on a showy milkweed leaf, Asclepias speciosa. It's...
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Let's Hear It for Biocontrol, Integrated Pest Management
Let's hear it for biocontrol. You've seen lady beetles, aka ladybugs, preying on aphids. But have...
An assassin bug drills a pest, a spotted cucumber beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A lady beetle, aka ladybug, snares an aphid. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A crab spider munches on a stink bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A great blue heron engages in a little pest management: it catches a rodent, a meadow vole, at Bodega Bay. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The great blue heron gets its prey, a meadow vole, in position before swallowing it whole. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
