You know how you pull plants because you didn't put them there or they're considered to be "weeds"? Well, I'm guilty of that. Quite often, in fact. I pull a lot of wild ruellias (Ruellia nudiflora) because – darn it! – they think they own the place! Recently, however, I made an interesting discovery on one. But I digress....that's another blog post I've just decided. Back to my pulling plants...the above-and-below photos of an uninvited garden resident is a slender hedeoma (Hedeoma acinoides). Before I would have pulled it and then gone on with my life. But this time, I let this plant stay. Why not?
After supper yesterday, I wandered around the gardens with my phone and macro lens ready to snap whatever I might find. I stopped by the hedeoma and caught sight of a bug. And then another critter. And another critter. Pretty soon, I was on my bottom, trying to find as many different critters as I could on this one plant. It made me think of a blog post I wrote years ago about the diversity of life on a silverleaf nightshade. Why not write one about the hedeoma? It fascinates me how nature is so interconnected and not just random. What I perceive as an unwanted weed is someone else's HOME. [Note: My IDs of these little guys below are tentative and not 100 percent correct.]
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| Scentless plant bug |
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| Probably a meshweaver |
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| An ebony bug |
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| A spider (LOL!) |
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| A true bug |
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| Another true bug |
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| And one more true bug |
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