The Helping Friendly Gardener

Cool bug alert!! So the bamboo by the gift shop has really bad sooty mold, which is a fungus that grows on honeydew (secreted by numerous insects, most notably aphids). While trying to figure out the cause of the sooty mold I found an infestation of this insect... there's a winged adult on most leaves underneath a web layer guarding a bunch of nymphs. I reached out to some Facebook experts and included all this info and photos and I got an ID... bark lice! Rather than causing the sooty mold, the bark lice are *eating* it!! How cool is that?! And the web is silk!!
https://projects.ncsu.edu/cals/course/ent425/library/compendium/psocoptera.html

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For Christmas I bought myself some mushroom blocks, oh what an exciting and delicious journey!!! I got blue oyster and shiitake from https://www.trailbridgefarms.com/, and golden oyster from https://northspore.com/?utm_term=north%20spore&utm_campaign=&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=4867509766&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_grp=128967140573&hsa_ver=3&hsa_kw=north%20spore&hsa_tgt=kwd-1459916446502&hsa_mt=e&hsa_ad=558571754042&hsa_src=g&hsa_cam=15152514865&gclid=CjwKCAiAlfqOBhAeEiwAYi43F4mNRcH-wVmBbZ2U1sEEcMtIRIWY3oudJ9rErxU7yOpE0m-BS3UsdhoC7LgQAvD_BwE.

Today I helped mama duck get her babes safely to the river, across roads and between homeless camps. The video cuts out when 1 duckling proves difficult to catch but with the help of a stranger I caught it and reunited with mama just in time for the giant leap into the river 🦆