The Kittalog

I confess I let the vegetable garden get away from me. Not hard to do when you take vacation in August. I went out in my pajamas the other d...

I was digging up the irises around the birch stump today. We're going to have it ground down so we can plant another tree there. A long ...

I was sitting on the front steps this morning, waiting for a mouse to scamper by so I could get a picture, but those little buggers are fast...

This Western Tiger Swallowtail came flitting down to the echinacea in my front yard and obligingly posed for several dozen close-ups. I was ...

A while back, I posted about a bee imitator that I thought was a syrphid, or flower fly, but it turned out to be a wool carder . Yesterday I...

Lucy would like you to admire the ginormous sunflowers that the Sergeant planted. They are about 8 feet tall! He started them from seeds in ...

Every time I stop to watch bees on flowers, I run into something else new. While the bees have so far been concentrating on the salvias and ...

I had left a small plastic pot overturned on top of small post next to the garden, and when I took it off a few days ago, I discovered this...

I felt lucky to capture a shot of this black-and-white bee, if only from the back. It turned out to be a plasterer bee (family Colletidae)....

We knew about the birds and the bees. Now we know about the bugs, too. Click on the photo to see it larger.

We went for little hike today outside Boulder with some friends. I need to sort through all my photos, but thought I'd toss up these tw...

"Look at that big spider!" "What spider? Where? I don't see .... HOLY SHIT! That's a big spider!" Vicki's po...

This is some kind of shield bug (I think), also known as a stink bug. He turned up on some sage I picked for roasting tomatoes. I didn't...

Do I attract interesting bugs or am I just really attuned to them? No one could help but notice this fellow, seeing as how he was really lar...

These beetles were eating the shrubs outside Al Johnson's . They're pretty big, about the size of my pinkie fingernail. I haven'...

Who could this be, hiding behind an iris stalk? A very obliging model. Accustomed to being admired, perhaps. Click the photos to make them l...

This photo was taken 18(!) years ago outside my door in Beijing. I saw this huge crazy thing hovering around the flower pot, sipping nectar...

This is the last batch of butterfly photos. The Butterfly Pavilion has a constant supply from all over the world. Every day more emerge an...