Our Secret Garden in the High Desert

Ajouté : 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]Got a cricket hunter wasp.

[00:00:04]Having a little trouble crawling up the wall here with cricket.

[00:00:13]Going to lay an egg on that and then like the tarantula hawk and the tarantula will see the egg hatch and then Oh, trying to fly away.

[00:00:29]Where are you going?

[00:01:17]See the little ones over there?

[00:01:21]Oh, they see us. They can hear us talking. Their ears are so good.

[00:01:27]Even through the windows.

[00:01:30]Checking out the greenhouse.

[00:01:34]I wonder what the kitties think of this.

[00:01:38]>> [snorts] >> Oh, there's a kitty right there.

[00:01:41]Oh, watching.

[00:01:47]That's funny.

[00:03:13]We have this teneb pupa here. I'm not sure what it's going to become.

[00:03:19]But I'm guessing it's going to eclose today.

[00:03:24]See long antenna.

[00:03:31]It's about 24 hours after I took that first video. It did not eclose yet, but it's darkened a lot.

[00:03:44]It's got to be today.

[00:03:47]It's starting.

[00:04:11]The larva looked a little different from other teneb larvae. It was darker in color.

[00:04:18]Usually they're just kind of yellow mealworms.

[00:04:28]I probably won't really be able to tell what it is until it colors up in a few days.

[00:04:36]It's going to be teneral and it's going to be really pale in color for a day or two.

[00:04:44]All right, it's been about an hour.

[00:04:50]Really interesting shape.

[00:04:56]Really long antenny.

[00:05:01]The elytra looks striated, but that can happen even if once it darkens up it doesn't actually look striated.

[00:05:16]Okay, it's been a day and a half and it has darkened up.

[00:05:22]Still teneral though. I wouldn't want to touch it cuz you could dent its elytra.

[00:05:29]Looks like it has a wonky foot.

[00:05:32]You can't see it, but there's a wasp crawling on my phone screen right now.

[00:05:38]Just saw something really pretty on this scabiosa flower.

[00:05:44]Never seen before.

[00:05:47]What are you?

[00:05:51]Maybe some kind of leafcutter bee.

[00:05:55]It looks metallic from a distance.

[00:06:06]Lived here for 5 years. Never seen this before.

[00:06:17]What are you doing?

[00:06:25]Are you alive?

[00:06:28]Covered in pollen.

[00:06:33]Reminds me of a bumper sticker.

[00:06:35]I vote and I'm covered in pollen.

[00:06:39]When we have from our friends at Frog Mustard Stickers. I'll show you in a minute.

[00:06:52]Here's the ingredients for Kelsey's vodka sauce. Vodka.

[00:06:59]And a little painting she did.

[00:07:02]Some of our other bumper stickers. Frog Mustard.

[00:07:09]Yep.

[00:07:10]I said it already.

[00:08:58]Cactus with red flowers.

[00:09:01]Reminds me of a Christmas cactus. Yeah.

[00:09:04]The flower part?

[00:09:06]Yeah.

[00:09:07]And the Christmas part? The red and green.

[00:09:15]Pretty.

[00:09:17]Hey kitty. Look who came out because it rained today.

[00:09:20]>> gosh.

[00:09:22]It's one of the couches spadefoot toads.

[00:09:27]That's a good sized one, too.

[00:09:29]Cute.

[00:09:30]>> hand down there so you can see.

[00:09:32]I toad.