Imagine you are one of the hungry bees from last week. Which of these lovely flowers would you chose to visit for lunch?
There is one flower in this photograph a bee might want to avoid. Do you see which one? It is towards the top.
Maybe you will notice it as you approach the flower.
An assassin bug wants its lunch as well.
As promised yesterday, today we are going to look at the relationship between fava bean plants, aphids and beneficial insects.
Take a look at this video from Cityfarmer TV.
The narrator suggests sometimes letting one pest that isn’t causing much damage go can help out with later, more severe problems.
Do you grow fava beans? Have you ever seen aphids on them?
This week the sun has come out.
New flowers and flower flies make it feel like spring is right around the corner.
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.
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