Surprise friend
Slime!!
Earwig battle
Several interested earwigs on oil jar edges and a few already in oil! Yay!
Less yay: more earwigs eating the Peruvian ground cherry (which is farthest from the oil).
More yay: big beautiful toad patrolling the backyard prairie.
Earwigs vs bunnies
Last night I took Briar out for her final business trip of the evening and noticed this big pile of earwigs feasting on fallen oak buds. Okay, I knew we had a lot of earwigs. I knew they nibbled on my purple potatoes last year. I have also suspected them of getting a few seedlings, like my coreopsis seedlings.
However, these earwigs chose an awfully suspicious place to dine. Right next to a denuded branch of moss-curled parsley.
Wes has just constructed me an anti-bunny defense screen for the front yard raised beds. So, soon we’ll find out… Are the bunnies really the culprits of the lost seedlings of mizuna, bok choy, and carrots? Did they, as suspected, eat all the leaves off my front yard parsley? Or am I going to have to find out if diatomaceous earth really works on earwigs?
Stay tuned.
TOAD
