by Meriel Bradley | Garden, Garden Wildlife |
Clearwing Hummingbird Moth By: Meriel Bradley Hummingbird moths fly and feed during the day, so if you are lucky enough to attract them into your garden you are in for a treat – they are absolutely amazing to watch. I had quite a time getting some pictures to...
by Meriel Bradley | Garden, Garden Gallery, Garden Wildlife |
Candy Striped Spider By: Meriel Bradley This was an interesting find on the speedwell in my garden – a Candy Striped Spider. According to Wikipedia, it is: Native to Europe and has been introduced to North America a long time ago Belongs to the family...
by Meriel Bradley | Garden, Garden Wildlife |
Black Swallowtail Butterfly By: Meriel Bradley The Black Swallowtail Butterfly is so beautiful with an impressive wingspan of about 4 inches. It doesn’t land in one spot for very long so is quite hard to capture, but it finally landed in my vegetable garden on a...
by Meriel Bradley | Garden, Garden Gallery, Garden Wildlife |
Monarch Butterfly Lifecycle By: Meriel Bradley Growing up our garden was full of butterflies and bees and I am working to build out my garden from a new home build of nothing but a grassy lawn into a haven for local butterflies, bees, and birds. The Monarch butterfly...
by Meriel Bradley | Garden, Garden Wildlife |
Dragonfly By: Meriel Bradley I love seeing dragonflies in the garden, not just for their beauty, but as they patrol back and forth across the garden, I know they are helping keep the mosquito population down. They start life in the water where the female dragonflies...
by Meriel Bradley | Garden, Garden Wildlife |
American Toad By: Meriel Bradley I found this beauty while raking the leaves this fall. The American Toad is a large, squat toad that lives in ponds during their breeding season, and then they hibernate on land in the winter and burrow beneath the frost line in the...
