Desert Organics

Globemallow is one of those native plants I have had a long fascination with.  Back when I was 10 years old I had started my first rock / cactus garden.   After going away for a couple weeks I came back and found that this plant had somehow managed to find its way in my [...]

While enjoying the rain outside I found a beetle I almost destroyed because I thought it was roach.  But the large mandibles, shiny black exoskelton, and square like body of this male beetle stopped me from destroying a native specimen.   From what I read it appears these are a predator beetle that eats insect larva found in [...]