If you plant that lavender, the crab spiders will have nowhere to go, and they are the wolves of this ecosystem. Removing the top predator from a chain, in this case a predator of bees and wasps, weakens everything, even the lives of birds, flowers and bees. I know it’s pretty, and sells houses like they were in Provence or Vevey, all money-in-the-bank, but, please, just don’t.
It’s hard to blend in, you know. One is going to get picked off by a bird before sunset.
But if you just have to, then at least intersperse the crazy weed with some yarrow.
Good hunting there.
Or some snow buckwheat. Crab spiders can change between white and yellow. Even pale, pale green. That’ll do fine. Just remember: this isn’t Provence.
Do the responsible thing.
Thank you.
Categories: Erosion, Ethics, Floral, flower gardening, Gardening, Grasslands, Land Development, landscaping, Nature Photography, Science, Spirit, Urban Okanagan
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They do really stand out on the lavender. I see lots of them here on wildflowers where they blend in quite well. They seem to be doing well.
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They are great little hunters! Here, the fashion is to pull out all native plants, replace with landscape cloth, cover with rocks, and then plant some lavender. It’s about dreaming on a sterilized canvas. Time for a new art form.
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I love to see someone having a heart for the tiny spider princesses, who need their flowerpetal-palaces for living.
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They are lovely ones. I like the jumping ones with the clown faces that keep my house clean. They make me laugh. They are also very athletic. They can jump almost a metre!
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Don’t know, if we have the same species of these funny little friends, but those jump spiders on my houses walls usually wear a zebra costume for their performance 🙂
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That sounds like them!
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Natives should be included.
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Precisely!
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