The cute, quiet, and hardworking ladybug is a crop saver, a pop culture icon, and an instructional aid in classrooms around the world but some are destructive. Do you know how long ladyboy lives and what their lifecycle looks like? do you know that they pupate and transform before becoming a full adult? Ladybugs’ lifecycle…
Tasty soups are perfect bowls of comfort for rainy days, chilly afternoons, and winter evenings. They’re great fillers for large crowds and better than medications for coughs, runny noses, or fevers. Whether soup is clear, thick, cold, specialty, or cultural, 26 are the most common herbs used to provide cooling, woody, sweetish, bitter, sulfury, floral,…
The incorrect amount of sunlight or temperature can affect plants. For instance, full-sun plants need the right temperature as well as from 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight each day. There are three ways to correctly identify full-sun plants for your garden: 1) use heat-zone or plant hardiness maps, 2) know what’s growing there…
Most plants grown in gardens need from 6 to 8 hours of sunlight each day. However, if your garden faces north or doesn’t get enough sunlight, you might be worried if starting a garden either indoor or outdoor is a good idea. The number of sunlight hours of a north-facing garden depends on 1) emisphere…
The stories you’ve heard and how people condition us to see worms as slimy, dirty animals crawling in the soil. However, if you see worms in your indoor or outdoor garden, don’t panic, don’t be disgusted – be informed. What looks like worms in the soil can be 1) wireworms, 2) pseudocentipedes, 3) centipedes, 4)…
What animal in your garden is not a worm, snail or insect, has a skirt, a foot, and 27,000 teeth? If you say it’s a slug, you’re absolutely right. A white garden slug is a land mollusk found in gardens and fields. It contributes to natural ecosystems but can be a pest when it destroys…