Insects in the Garden

by Butterfield Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:58 pm

As it's a mild night I just went outside into the garden, with the torch thing on my phone for guidance, and I shone it on random places in the garden. I was surprised to see, at 11:30pm, there were still ants going up and down the two trees they're always going up and down during the day! And on one corner of the patio there was a hive of woodlouse activity; where one will only normally encounter woodlice under rocks, or occasionally trundling along a floor in the house, the ones out there were scurrying around all over the place really fast and randomly! It's like they'd come alive at night. Then there were the slugs around the place, various spiders walking or creating cobwebs, little generic insects walking around on the wall - who knew all this went on the other side of our closed curtains!

Well, I did really but it has been years since I observed such things.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:05 am

It sounds totally terrifying. scared

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:06 am

I wouldn't go into my garden at night without a flame thrower.

by Fangirl Three Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:09 am

My garden is full of grasshoppers. There always used to be little ones in the front lawn, but this year the back lawns are alive with big ones.

That's during the day. I hardly dare to speculate about what's happening at night.

by Butterfield Sat Aug 08, 2020 1:19 am

I'm not sure I've ever seen an actual grasshopper. Actually, I do remember a little brown thing once being in our back porch in amongst the shoes - I think that might have been a grasshopper or a cricket or something.

by Nightjar Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:35 am

Or a katydid! scared

by Fangirl Three Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:43 pm

I went in the garden to harvest the last of the potatoes, and I received 6 insect bites. One on my ear, which has made it go all red. And another in a place which I wouldn't have thought an insect could get to.

by Nightjar Sat Oct 03, 2020 4:12 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Oct 03, 2020 4:43 pm

by Nightjar Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:22 pm

How's Buddha in the Garden BTW? hmn

by Butterfield Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:10 pm

Nightjar wrote:How's Buddha in the Garden BTW?

How dare you ask in the wrong thread! no no

by Nightjar Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:10 pm

The title just, just... reminded me. bawl

by Butterfield Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:11 pm

Buddha in the Garden is very disappointed in you.

by Nightjar Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:12 pm

That means I'm going to be reincarnated as a slug. bawl

by Nightjar Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:14 pm

Still, could be worse...

Insects in the Garden Giphy

by Fangirl Three Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:53 am

My ear is still all red and itchy. I've put some Savlon on it.

by Nightjar Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:32 am

Were you assailed by the infamous Colchester Midge?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:36 pm

by Butterfield Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:22 am

Butterfield wrote:As it's a mild night I just went outside into the garden, with the torch thing on my phone for guidance, and I shone it on random places in the garden.

I did this again with my torch just after midnight as recently requested! It was slug city, with several woodlices moving about the patio. The ants were once again going up and down the tree that is riddled with aphids and were congregating on higher branches. There was a fair bit of spider activity, with several small spiders in cobwebs on the various conifers I shone the torch on and I saw a harvestman walking across a bare area of soil. I saw some green spiders too. scared

I saw one earwig.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:16 am

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