Watering a bromeliad & Pacific tree frog on a very hot day in San Diego County (5 Oct. 2024). I moved my bromeliad with tree frog to a shady, moist location under a pineapple guava tree.

Several days later it was back on my patio in my Amazonian zebra bromeliad. I think this is a noteworthy Facebook note, unless I have 2 bromeliad-loving tree frogs!

A large, gray, praying mantis peering out of my ground cover. I usually find green females and brown males at my home in Twin Oaks Valley.

With 900 species, each with unique pollinator wasps, figs are truly the most remarkable genus of flowering plants. I recently became fascinated (obsessed) with microscopic calcareous structures in their leaf epidermis called cystoliths. Some cystoliths are the width of a human hair!

The order Lepidoptera (moths & butterflies) contains about 180,000 species, the majority of which are moths. Many small gray moths are agricultural pests; however, there are many truly spectacular species with remarkable shapes, sizes and color patterns. Some also have amazing life cycles with plants, such as Mexican jumping beans, jimsonweeds (Datura), yucca moths, & silkworms. Many occur in San Diego County and visit your porch lights at night. Wayne's Moth Page

Could monkeys pressing keys at random on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time type the complete works of Shakespeare? The "Infinite Monkey Theorem" has recently been challenged by 2 Australian mathematicians based on a finite universe. I plan to add this to probability section of my online, peer-reviewed article about the evolution & origin of life. Wayne's Evolution & Origin of Life Page