We found another insect songster this week taking a nibble on the sweet potato vines.
This katydid won’t be singing right now, because it is still a nymph.
Both male and female adult katydids sing.
In case you aren’t sure how they sound, here’s a short video of katydids singing at night.
Did you know that honey bees aren’t native to the Americas? The honey bee came to North America with the Europeans. The continent wasn’t lacking in bees before honey bees came, however, because a vast assortment of native bees were already happily pollinating flowers.
Like these busy native bees working our sunflowers.
The pint-sized pollinators have been coming in a constant stream since the sunflowers opened.
They leave each flower with yellow pollen-laden legs loaded to overcapacity . How do they even fly?
Thanks to these bees we have a heavy crop of sunflower seeds. Go, bees, go!
This praying mantis has been a regular in our yard for the last few weeks.
It might have hatched out of an egg case like this one.
Here’s a short video of a praying mantis hatching. As you can see, newly-hatched praying mantids look like miniature adults.
Edit:
Just found a cool new book recommended by the NSTA.
Praying Mantises: Hungry Insect Heroes (Insect World)
by Sandra Markle
So, mantises is the correct plural now? I had learned it as mantids…
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.
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