Redefining the Beauty of Nature and Wildlife in Our Gardens
Born in Argentina and a resident of the United States for about forty years. A biologist by profession and a photographer and painter by avocation. I finally found the way to combine all these different interests in one single package when I became interested in pollinators. I have been photographing and painting them and studying their biology and ecology and I probably could spend the rest of my life doing so because the subject is endlessly fascinating and of tremendous esthetic, ecological and economic importance.
Editor’s note: this is part two of this series. Don’t miss part one of Viburnum Under Siege The accidentally introduced pest, viburnum leaf beetle, can destroy a shrub in just a couple of years and it continues to spread through North America. So I am trying to learn more about it, hoping that we can [...]
The shoots of Viburnum dentatum are thin, strong and straight. Native Americans used them for arrow shafts. That is why this shrub is often called arrowwood. Until recently it was considered as a plant free from serious pests. Now, the arrowwoods in my area are under attack by an invasive leaf beetle. Last May, I [...]
I read somewhere (I wish I could find that reference now) that the aphid biomass in an acre of meadows can be equivalent to that of an elephant. Perhaps that is a gross exaggeration, but, even if it was comparable to the mass of a cow or a dog, that is a lot of aphids. [...]
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