Monthly Archives: July 2020

Uh-oh, eleven days since my last update on leafminers and sawflies in my yard… Let’s see what’s happened since then. I’ve collected Phytomyza origani mines from the oregano patch by the front door on several different occasions, to ensure that I … Continue reading →

I interrupt this survey of obscure insects in my yard to bring you… a porcupine chomping on apples.

Before I get to the latest additions, I’ve got a few updates on some previous finds. Two exciting (albeit nondescript) flies emerged on Tuesday. One was from the leaf mines on oregano I found by the front stoop on June … Continue reading →

First, another announcement: This coming Friday morning I’ll be presenting another free webinar; this one is titled “Native Plants as Insect Habitat.” I’ll go through a number of common native New England plants and discuss some of the host-specific bugs … Continue reading →

Seems like every time I lay out a long litany of the latest leafminers from my yard, one gets left out as I’m scanning through my recent photos. Here’s one more from June 28: Leafminer #94: Agromyza reptans (Agromyzidae), on … Continue reading →

I held off on writing another “yard list” post until I’d met my self-imposed deadline of June 30 for updating the fly chapter of my leafminer book. Now that that’s out of the way, I’ve got some catching up to … Continue reading →