But I found this cool insect on my veranda today. Considering it's the dead of Winter, I'm a little worried that it won't survive on account of there being no food around. On the bright side, my plan of leaving a trough out with bare soil, and letting the natural flora grow there seems to be working. I've already seen a few ladybirds, some spiders and now this guy out there.
Compare that to last Summer even, where the only insects that visited were moths, flies and spiders.
Unfortunately, I'm going to spray down my hydroponic system with some insect killer, and go after the stuff that's attacking my strawberries because no matter what I grow in there, it gets infested almost immediately. I now understand why all the professional hydro growers maintain their spaces as clean rooms.
I wonder whether that's going to make a dent in the issue, or whether I'm just going to have to grow my hydro stuff in a cold frame looking thing.
I've already got a metric ton of different seeds I want to try in there, so hopefully I'll find a crop that is pest resistant.
I'm including this one for two reasons. First of all, this was shot at f22 which is as wide as it'll go, and the focal plane is still only millimetres. Very difficult to get good pictures handheld.
The second reason is look at his evil little feet. Kind of cool.
P.S. The net is to stop the bloody pigeons.