Butterfly and Sunflower #3

(Photograph copyright 2016 by Dan Routh)

In the garden. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Back at the Sunflower

(Photograph copyright 2016 by Dan Routh)

In the yard this afternoon. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Bee on Garlic

(Photograph copyright 2016 by Dan Routh)

In the garden. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Spring Diptych

(Photographs copyright 2016 by Dan Routh)

Preying mantis case and plum blossoms. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Monarch

(Photograph copyright 2015 by Dan Routh)

Last week in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Caterpillars and Parsley

(Photograph copyright 2015 by Dan Routh)

Black Swallowtail caterpillars feeding on parsley. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Tiger Swallowtail

(Photograph copyright 2015 by Dan Routh)

Backyard. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Yard Critters

In my yard in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

(Photographs copyright 2014 by Dan Routh)

In the Garden

(Photograph copyright 2014 by Dan Routh)

Beneficial insects. Braconid wasp larvae on a tomato horn worm. Goodbye horn worm.

A Week After The Snow

(Photograph copyright 2014 by Dan Routh)

A honey bee works a Mahonia bush. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Working a Garlic Head

(Photograph copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)

A carpenter bee works a garlic head in my yard in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Critter in the Garden

(Photograph copyright 2012 by Dan Routh0

A grasshopper sits on a young eggplant in the garden in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

New Crop of Caterpillars

(Photograph copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)

A black swallowtail caterpillar, one of about twenty-five or so on the parsley in our garden today. Looks like we were spared the hurricane and we'll have a new crop of butterflies.

Cicada

(Photograph copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)

I've heard a lot of news reports about cicadas in North Carolina recently, but I haven't seen or heard any of these 13 year "locusts" near my home. A trip to Denton on Sunday changed that. It was surreal as the woods around Denton Farm Park sounded alive with their drone. Thought for a moment I was in the Twilight Zone.

Pears on the Picnic Table

It's late summer and we start picking up fruit that falls from our trees, and it ends up lining our picnic table in the back yard. In addition to providing us with food, some of them provide sustenance for the wasps and hornets that share our farm.



(Photographs copyright 2010 by Dan Routh)