The morning after I planted Datura seedlings, I found the leaves eaten and some plants totally missing.
This is a seedling I popped in a pot of evening primrose and morning glories, all protected.
The morning after I planted Datura seedlings, I found the leaves eaten and some plants totally missing.
This is a seedling I popped in a pot of evening primrose and morning glories, all protected.
After Bee Visitors
This Morning
First glance, I felt a bit frustrated.
A closer look…
…it’s a beautiful vessel!
While I was watching the bees, a lovely blue butterfly stopped by.
May Be Icaricia acmon–Acmon Blue
Alcom Blue
Wikipedia
When I was organizing photos I shot yesterday, I noticed eggs on the underside of the damaged Datura leaves. They were so small I didn’t see them until I enlarged the photo. The shape of the eggs is fairly clear, but the image is not in focus.
Everything loves Datura and Brugmansia. Every seedling I transplanted to the garden, was eaten by the next morning. Even hidden plants, were found and damaged by the next morning. I hid this plant inside Hellebore leaves. Still somehow found and damaged.
South Hills SLO, CA
Calothurus
Cripps Pink, Pink Lady
Apple Tree with Three Types of Apples: Anna, Fuji, and Dorsett Golden
Anna
Fuji
Bee Showing Interest in Pink Lady Flowers
Last night I turned on the light over my work bench and found on oddity.
This little vessel has been hanging in my studio for decades. I fired the piece multiple times. Before the last firing, I bound it with wire and applied low fire lead glazes.
The oddity is a casemaking moth. What is it eating? Clearly not the glaze because typically the case that the casemaking moth construction will be the color of whatever it has eaten.
Recently looked through my stash of wood objects to use as an addition to a piece. The boxes were wrapped in plastic and stored in a wood bench. When I opened the drawer I found a green casemaking moth.
How did it even get inside? No clue.
I have cleaned my studio numerous times to remove the niches the moths like–undisturbed dark areas with fiber and plant material.
I have been forced to keep my stored completed work, work in progress and fiber materials in plastic. But, I can still find casemaking moths. It is frustrating, especially when I find that they have damaged something of value.
I use two methods for treating pieces and materials–place them in the freezer or someplace that becomes quite hot, like the trunk of a car.
The freezer shelf that is set aside for materials and work.
Recently found a casemaking moth on a wool I-cord that had been an embellishment for a rooster lamp that has been sitting on the china cabinet for nearly 15 years.
He looks lost without it.
I washed the I-cord in warm soapy water. Gave it a rinse, popped it in a plastic bag, and placed it in the freezer.