… spiral, straight down until they hit the ground. They would repeat this courtship ritual over and over again. Another incredible display was the Graphium agamemnon , or tailed jay butterfly. … one blue morpho clung to the netting of our enclosure. Next, almost a dozen other morphos came over and began to form a very tight swarm around the morpho hanging on the netting. The group …
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… does not work as quickly as the synthetic herbicides and applications may need to be repeated over several seasons to achieve effective control. An added benefit of corn gluten meal is that …
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… with local vendors. Other parts of the world have fall traditions that have carried over for generations. In Hong Kong, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a 3,000-year-old tradition; …
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… be good candidates. Younger trees won't need cleaning because algae and dirt tend to build up over many years. You may need to clean older trees every two or three years to maintain the white …
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… will turn yellow but the crown of the plants will remain alive with just a half-inch of water over several weeks. Grass will green up as soon as normal rainfall returns. …
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… help you choose one for your garden. More than 60 different clematis varieties were studied over a five-year period, with results published in Plant Evaluation Notes #10 . Then next spring …
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… Each crawler grows into a waxy, whitish lump about ½ inch long. The mature scale lays eggs over the summer, which hatch into a new generation of crawlers in September. Magnolia scale …
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… predicting wind and rain, you may want to bring your plant babies back inside until it blows over. Of my plant collection, Sherwood said my spider plant would probably do best outside. She … that idea in my back pocket. I’m going to bring my spider plant outside and see how it fares over the next few weeks. Who knows, maybe I’ll even start a vegetable container. Stay tuned! …
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… trees, as even the back sides of each tree must be pruned. And then, once every hour, he hears over the radio, “The tram is coming!” He moves his giant machine out of the way, allows the tram … work area to continue his pruning. This work takes the staff more than 500 hours to complete over a period of two full weeks. A big project at the Chicago Botanic Garden, but the finished …
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… does, a nice warm day will trigger them to come out. In a given area, most cicadas will emerge over only a two- or three-day period, which is an amazing sight. Once they’re out, they make a … trunks. Newly molted adults have yellow-white skin that darkens as their wings and body harden over four to six days; adults are about 1¼ inches long, black, red-eyed, orange-veined, with … an increase in other insects, as predators (like bats) may favor the big easy meal of a cicada over their normal tiny insect meals. Are people and pets safe? (Yes!) Witnessing the mass …
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