Insects

It’s Spring – Let the Battles Begin

By Lardeau Valley Time on May 1, 2016 • ( 4 )

Spring has sprung and action is heating up in the garden! A careful examination of the budding flowers and the grasses in the flower beds reveals a world of bug eat bug. This is what I have seen in my… Read More ›

One Last Spider, Really

By Lardeau Valley Time on October 2, 2015 • ( 3 )

As the fall settles in and temperatures drop, insects – other than cedar bugs – head for cover. Cedar bugs, or slow walkers as we call them in our house, can survive almost anything. They can survive freezing in the freezer… Read More ›

I Can’t Believe I Got the Whole Thing

By Lardeau Valley Time on September 18, 2015 • ( 11 )

This to me is amazing – that I was lucky enough to capture this interaction. In my garden, I have several crab spiders. One has been resident for quite some time in a patch of flowers, in fact on the… Read More ›

Fancy Fly

By Lardeau Valley Time on August 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

August is always a month of photographic challenges. Most of the wildlife has made itself scarce, probably packing for the long migration ahead. So I am often ‘forced’ to resort to flowers and bugs. Although. this year I did manage… Read More ›

It’s Creepy – Weekly Photo Challenge

By Lardeau Valley Time on August 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

Actually, I have a lot of trouble finding things that are creepy. Some give me the shivers when I first come upon them. But in general, things that other people find creepy (or icky) I find fascinating. And my camera… Read More ›

Garden’s Fading Beauty

By Lardeau Valley Time on August 15, 2015 • ( 4 )

I went out in the garden yesterday before a forecasted storm to see what is surviving the weeks of heat this summer. The flowers are hanging in and some are still to come. And the ‘wildlife’ seemingly still prospers. I… Read More ›

Creepy by Name – Weekly Photo Challenge

By Lardeau Valley Time on August 15, 2015 • ( 1 )

This is creepy by name but rather elegant I think. Creepy

Beneath My Feet – Almost- Day Seven

By Lardeau Valley Time on August 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

This subject keeps popping up. And once again, I restrained myself from placing it firmly beneath my feet… And a friend was nearby, safe from my feet!