The raised beds that were built for this year's vegetable garden are proving to be ever so much more productive than our straw bale attempt last year. We've been eating cucumber salad every day for a couple of weeks and have practically forced some of the overflow onto friends and neighbors. (I still have a lovely freshly-picked selection right now as a matter of fact, if anyone's interested.) We're about done with green beans, I think, maybe we'll get one more meal out of those. I've also done the first picking of a couple of varieties of heirloom soup beans - they did well, but should really be considered more of a row crop I think, as we won't end up with a large quantity. It's not the plants' fault, now we know how many need to be planted, meaning more than we have room for just now. Oh what the heck. For the entertainment value, another insect photo. (If not fungi, then bugs.) I found a couple dozen of these tarantula hawks on some evidently delicious wildflowers down along Lion Creek. I love how their antennae curl like that.
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Nice picture of the tarantula hawk. At the end opposite the curly antennae is a 1/3" long stinger that produces the "most profound pain" according to a man who actually goes out of his way to experience stings. He said the first three minutes after a sting is when you pray to die right now to end it.
Yes, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. What a guy
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