Butterfly And Wildlife Gardening And Photography» Grasshopper http://www.butterfliesandwildlife.com Butterfly and Wildlife Gardening And Photography In Houston Texas Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:17:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Purple Martin Parents Feeding Babies http://www.butterfliesandwildlife.com/2011/05/28/purple-martin-parents-feeding-babies/ http://www.butterfliesandwildlife.com/2011/05/28/purple-martin-parents-feeding-babies/#comments Sun, 29 May 2011 03:57:46 +0000 texdr http://www.butterfliesandwildlife.com/?p=7421 The Purple Martin parents are working full time feeding their young.  One thing I’ve noticed this year compared to previous years, is that the insects are smaller.  I haven’t seen them bring many Dragonflies which has been their favorite food in years past.  This year the most common insect seem to be Grasshoppers which the male Martin has in his mouth while the female looks on in the foreground.

Male Purple Martin With Grasshopper With Female In Foreground

]]> http://www.butterfliesandwildlife.com/2011/05/28/purple-martin-parents-feeding-babies/feed/ 0 Such A Pest http://www.butterfliesandwildlife.com/2009/05/31/such-a-pest/ http://www.butterfliesandwildlife.com/2009/05/31/such-a-pest/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:06:00 +0000 texdr http://texdr.wordpress.com/?p=435 I’m apparently on a roll with critters that are considered pests in the garden or at leasts things I don’t particularly care for when it comes to gardening.  I’ve got two more examples.  First is a very small grasshopper that was on my Cassia tree which is one of the host plants for the Sulphur Butterflies.  You can’t really tell from the picture because I was using a macro lens on my camera, but this guy was very small.  However, what he may lack in size, he can more than make up for when it comes to eating leaves from my plants.

Baby Grasshopper

The second pest I’m going to highlight is the very common Milkweed Bug.  If you have Milkweed to attract Monarchs you are going to have these bugs as well.  They don’t do any specific harm to the Monarch caterpillars, but they do tend to suck the juice out of the Milkweed plants.

Just like for the Assassin bug, I squash these guys with long tweezers.  It’s my own version of Organic Pest Control.

Milkweed Bug

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