Referral Logs.

today's selections, for your entertainment / education:

• "where can i find info and pictures on the large milkweed bug?" - a picture (and info) from the entomology department of texas a&m is online here, and here are milkweed bugs as pictured in a photographic catalog of north american arthropods. more pictures and information are here, from the daylily dictionary.

  and my own posts on milkweed bugs were on august 28.

• "vacuuming pine needles" - here at garden spot, vacuuming pine needles seems to be a never-ending activity. although it's a little more work than just raking the needles together and transferring the piles to the compost, the pine needles break down much, much faster when they're vacuumed / chopped with the rake and vac.

  the gardenias like pine needle mulch, and the crepe myrtles and crinums don't mind it. and hopefully the unidentified iris are louisiana iris, because they also like pine needles.