Category: Butterflies and Bees
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Learn about some insects today!
Look closely at this bee in a pumpkin flower. You can actually see the pollen on its body. There are two bees in this flower. The yellow object to the left of the bee is the stamen or the pollen structure in the male pumpkin flower. Below you see a female pumpkin flower with five…
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Bats, Goats, Thermal Imaging, Cypress vine flowers, and Butterflies
There was an Absolutely beautiful sunset on August 2nd! The five videos below are very short clips of the bats flying around the lake at the farm. The bats are small and move very quickly, so they are difficult to film. The bats that visit the farm are Mexican Free-Tailed bats. This bat is a…
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Butterflies, caterpillars, Pumpkins, flowers, Watermelon, Birthday, Fishing, and Groundhog
Butterflies were definitely enjoying the heat this morning as they visited all of our flowers. Play the videos below to see the butterflies and their larvae (caterpillars) at work. Just as the caterpillars (larvae) of Monarch butterflies exclusively eat milkweed, the larvae of Gulf Fritillary butterflies eat various species of the passion vine. The plant…
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Pumpkins, Watermelons, flowers, grapevines, and goats.
This is the large pumpkin in the garden by the fire pit. As promised, we starting using a tape measure on the pumpkins and watermelons. This is one of the newer pumpkins and measures 28.5 inches from stem to bottom. Pictures 1-3 in slideshow below are of the same pumpkin as above. Picture 4 is…
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Fishing on Grand isle- Heddie caught a Shark! (And a Red Fish) with a little on goats, pumpkins, corn and seedpods.
Sammy (Pops) is holding some nice trout. Fritz is with his mom (Heddie) in middle picture below. The shark did not hold still for his picture- but you get the idea from the picture below. Cousins at Lake Keowee enjoying the beautiful water of the lake. The Pygmy goats were all about getting fed, then…
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Time to finish up with the Garlic, update birds, and sunflowers
The garlic has been hanging in the dark barn for two weeks. The stems have dried and it is time to finish the harvest. We start by clipping the roots and stems off leaving about an inch of the stem, then we remove just the outer muddy coat from the garlic pods. Now we will…
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Goats, Fishing, Flowers, Pumpkin pollination, and Bats
Fool seems to like wearing the Pit Vipers (sunglasses). The last slide is Quinn holding Camo (Ghost). Camo is still not crazy about being held. Bass fishing in Florida- all catch and release- Things got better as the trip progressed! Flip through the pictures below. The last one is 4.8 pounds. Flip through the pictures…
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Memorial Day Weekend- Louisiana Salt Water Fishing, Flowers, Pumpkins, Watermelon, Corn, and Goats
Seems a lot of people went fishing over the long weekend. Obviously the slides above are from salt water fishing. Flip through the slide show below. We actually have pumpkins growing! Note the flower opening that does NOT have a bulb below (slides 3 and 4) These are male flower. Look through the slideshow below…
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The pumpkins are growing fast, but no flowers yet. We will have blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries soon.
These pumpkins were planted about three weeks ago. Hard to believe they can grow that fast. The flowers against the fence are Mexican sunflowers (if we kept track of the correct seed packet). It won’t be long before we can pick these blueberries. They have to turn blue first. Blueberries will not get sweeter once…