littlewolfteeth | (no subject)

I haven't been landscaping lately unless it's a very nice and dry day. I tried to just let my body sweat through it but nah, that's not happening. I'm sensitive to the heat and I just don't tolerate humidity very well at all. "Well little wolf, why are you down here then?" I ask myself that same question every day. It's just really complicated to move when you have so many roots in one spot, if that makes sense.

Anyways! Look at that bug!!!!!!! I did not know this was a bug until moved. I'm used to weird and horrifying insects in this state. I did not know caterpillars could purposely look like bird droppings! I just now checked on my orange tree and I haven't in a while because, well, it's been storming so I just kept pushing that off. Big mistake on my part. Apparently all those little orange balls I found stuck to my leaves late at night (I went checking because I noticed a few nibbles here and there and I wanted to catch the intruder - Google told me slugs come out at night) were the eggs of a swallowtail butterfly. I did not crush them all either. It was dark, I saw a couple and thought, "Huh. Must be some type of egg." *squish* and then went back inside.

I thought a bird got mad at me and just used my tree for target practice. I almost walked away but then I saw one of their heads move. I stuffed them all into a water bottle. All eight of them. I was fascinated. I wanted to know what these things are. They also stick appendages out too when confronted. I didn't like that. I'm going to take these guys way down the road and set them free. I love butterflies too much to kill them. I just don't want them eating my orange tree. I don't have the heart to kill them. Oh well. Now I know to get rid of the eggs before they hatch. D:

Seriously though!!! HOW does a butterfly know what bird droppings look like and then mimic that in their evolution??? These questions keep me up late at night. Same for that snake that has a tail that looks like a spider to lure in birds.

They uh... ate a good chunk of leaves off of my tree. Luckily, my tree has been growing more branches in light of all the rain storms. Which tells me I need to water her more often.

At least there is good news. I'm the proud new parent of a tiny avocado tree. ^^; I just... need to er, quickly figure out where I'm going to put it. I didn't think they would grow that fast. It's going to be transplanted in a couple of weeks to a much bigger container. I'm not sticking into the ground until it's about the size of my orange tree so it won't get trampled or anything. I still have time to make a plot for it.

I did have a nice little friend nestled in my orange tree a few weeks ago when we were having that unending dry spell that was AMAZING for me might I add.

I have been still landscaping the weeds out here and there. I've drastically cut back and like I said, I don't do this every day if I do it at all. It needs to not feel like I'm going to immediately have heat sickness upon being outside longer than a few minutes. I keep finding these... vines? I don't know what they are and they aren't connected to the normal invasive jungle vines I have crawling all over my trees. I thought maybe wisteria but I couldn't find it connected to the one wisteria vine I do have. I don't know. That sucker was longer than twelve feet.

So overall, I have sort of halted my gardening for the most part. I can't do anything at the apex of our summer unless it's just quickly watering them and getting back outside. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do anything in the mornings either.