February 24, 2008
Bug inventory

We inventoried the bugs in the two lower greenhouses this morning. We postively id'ed several potato leaf hoppers (not so good), a damselfly (good), a boxelder bug (neutral), beetle larvae (neutral). We also found a small hopping white fly in the soil which could be a whitefly, but it seemed to be too big and odd to find it on the soil. We also found two small, fleshy green bugs attached to the underside of leaves, which could be an green peach aphid, or maybe a larval potato leafhopper, either way not so good.
We found lots of spiders, but we didn't inventory those. Here's Henry picking up a huge one. I'm not sure what this spider is, anyone know?


We found all kinds of treasures including this monarch wing, a bright reminder of summer.
