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Happy Arachtober!
It's October and Arachtober: the month to celebrate spiders and other arachnids. As arachnologists will tell you, arachnids are arthropods that include spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip spiders and vinegaroons. Arachnids need love, too,...
Pretty in pink. A jumping spider on a pink rose in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pretty in yellow. A jumping spider on a yellow rose in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pretty in green. A jumping spider on green vegetation in a Vacaville garden peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
When a 'Teddy Bear Bee' Became 'Mr. October'
We usually see male Valley carpenter bees, Xylocopa sonorina, in the spring and summer, but in the fall? On Oct. 17? But there he was, the familiar golden bee with green eyes, robbing nectar from a Mexican petunia, Ruellia simplex, in a Vacaville, Calif., garden. "Nectar...
A male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina, engages in nectar robbing by drilling a hole in the corolla of the Mexican petunia to steal the nectar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This male Valley carpenter bee, or "the teddy bear bee," wiggles to reach the nectar of a Mexican petunia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina, leaves a Mexican petunia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What? Monarch Eggs in October?
So here it is Monday, Oct. 10 and the monarch butterflies are still laying eggs on our milkweed in Vacaville, Calif. "Mrs. October" fluttered down to our tropical milkweed at 4:30 p.m. today and began laying eggs on three tropical milkweeds (Asclepias curassavica). We grow three other...
Monarch butterfly laying eggs on tropical milkweed on Oct. 10 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of monarch eggs on tropical milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
