Gaia Garden

Last weekend at this time (2 p.m., Sunday afternoon), I was just arriving home after a great weekend getaway. For seven years I've bee...

Greg gave me a gift for Christmas last year - Access (the software program, which unfortunately doesn't automatically come with the home...

Okay, this is a warning.  I am going to sound a little "Woo-woo" in this post.  I can't help that because sometimes that's...

Double-banded Scoliid Wasp.  Scolia bincincta .  What the heck is that?  Won't it sting me?  It looks menacing! Well, it may look me...

As I was doing a quick look-see in the vegetable garden yesterday, I heard a fly buzzing.  Why a buzzing fly caught my attention, I really c...

When I posted my cicada photo on Bug Guide, for help with identification, I was also given links to pages that have recordings of cicada son...

According to the reading I've done, restoring prairie is very much an art.  In fact, it's as much or more of an art than it is a sci...

These small winged beauties won't catch your eye from across the garden, but close up they are one of the prettiest butterflies I've...

Not surprisingly after 3 hot, dry years, there have been a lot of grasshoppers around this summer.  Grasshoppers and hot, dry weather go tog...