Mantidflies are in the family Mantispidae. This fascinating group of creatures aren’t actually flies at all – they...
The Heliopsis in my garden is completely infested with aphids. It happens every year. This might seem like a bad thing –...
On a visit to the garden last evening, I found these three bumble bees sleeping on a teasel flower. They were sluggish and...
We were picking blueberries today when I spotted this tiny insect. At first I thought it was the nymph of a pest-munching...
At first I only noticed a little bee clinging to this blue vervain (Verbena hastata) in the outdoor gardens at Phipps...
Today I made a quick trip to the Trial Gardens at North Park here in Pittsburgh. They were looking very nice! While I was there,...
A few short weeks ago the praying mantid egg case I purchased at a local plant nursery hatched out hundreds of young mantids....
I discovered this lovely green lacewing clinging to a flowering tobacco leaf this morning. Though I often see them flying around...