@Hugo had the excellent idea for this. There is now a category for photos, in which you’re welcome to create topics for different themes. Share any of your photos that you are letting other people share and use freely.
This category is to celebrate bugs and slugs as teachers helping to make strong plants.
Happy mold!!
Visiting a garden today. Lots of lovely aphids on the kale
And this is my kind of houseplant! a true survivor, it’s traveled 30 feet from a parent over the years under the house and finally emerged.
It’s in danger from my husband protecting the wall 
Lots of this so far this season, I’m not sure exactly what insect but it eats more than just sweet potatoes. It likes Capsicum spp too 
Horrified! Colorado potato beetle on my aubergine. Hopefully it got lost in the hoophouse and attackes out of desperation… But am I creating a trap to introduce pests onto new crops by having a greenhouse? Or inter cropping? I planted tomato plants under bolting lettuces which suffered from aphids. They remained on the tomato plants when I removed the lettuces. Not thriving… But still enough to impact their growth…
Here’s some photos of the spinach from our grant program attempting to breed resistance to the garden symphylan that decimates many crops in our area.
Classic symphylan symptoms, the spinach germinated but then doesn’t grow, gradually turns yellow and dies.
Pulling the plant out reveals how the symphylans have eaten the new roots.
But there’s hope! Our diverse seed stock seems to include varieties that are a little bit resistant to the symphylans. We didn’t get a good leaf harvest, but got a large number of seeds to replant. This pic shows a healthy spinach right beside a victim of the symphylans
Does anyone know what this crazy thing is?
It has black and white stripes on the abdomen. It’s pretty big, about 2" long. Appears to be a type of beetle. Location is North Texas.
This had been the strongest planting of winter squash from early season direct seeding. They started flowing more than a month ago.
These C. Pepo squash survived squash vine borers last year but are struggling now.
Maybe the borers have just recently attacked them, and the vines will recover. However I am very suspicious of these brown beetles.
Just like last year I’m only able to visit these plants occasionally, so it’s hard to know for sure what the progression has been
