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		<title>Ants and Labor Day II &#8211; The Western Thatching Ant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. &#8211; Colossians 3:23-24 NIV For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. &#8211; Ephesians 2:10 NKJV So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom. &#8211; Psalm 90:12 NKJV Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Butterflies III &#8211; Great Spangled Fritillary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.&#8221; &#8211; Psalm 91:14-16 There are an estimated 18,000 species of butterflies on this planet. Most adult butterflies fly for only about 2 &#8211; 4 weeks before they die. Some take flight for only 2 days! However, the Great Spangled &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Western Eyed Click Beetle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Then God said, &#8220;Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind&#8221;; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. &#8211; Genesis 1:24-25 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Genesis 1:31 One of the &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Butterflies II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 NIV So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don&#8217;t get tied up again in slavery to the law. Galatians 5:1 NLT Have you ever seen a group of butterflies gathered around a puddle of mud? I’ve found that if I move very slowly, I can get to within only a few feet of them before they flutter &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ants and Labor Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 20:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise! Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. Proverbs 6:6-8 NLT Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer; Proverbs 30:25 NIV For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. Colossians 1:16 Whilst returning from &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Praying Mantis III</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2022 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.&#8217;&#160; Jeremiah 33:3 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5 For many years I have battled with various pests on our tomatoes. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not much of one to put out poisons in our yard or garden. I’d rather eat something relatively organic that’s not quite as perfect as a fruit or veggie that has been doused &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Praying Mantis II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.&#160; 2 Chronicles 16:9 A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the mountains&#8211;where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip&#8211;he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD watches over you&#8211;the LORD is your shade at your right hand; the sun &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Praying Mantis I &#8211; Egg Casing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[O LORD, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures. Psalm 104:24 NLT Some years ago, I went to our county extension service and obtained plans to build a bat box. I was tired of the mosquitoes which plagued our backyard each summer, and since I’m not much for spraying poisons, I thought I’d try a more natural solution to knock down the evening insect population. If you know anything about bat boxes, they need to be elevated about 12 feet or more to keep predators &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stonefly</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Trock]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause — Who does great things, and unsearchable, marvelous things without number. Job 5:8-9 Sometime during the autumn months, I wrote about how nutrients from tree leaves which fall into mountain streams can be recycled into the food chain (see The Recyclers). Pictured above is a shed casing, or exoskeleton, of a stonefly. These critters play a big part of the food chain in those streams. It always does my heart good to see stonefly casing along the rocks and logs near the rivers. One &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cicada</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. Joel 2:25 Folks in the U.S. have called cicadas “locusts” for a long time. The two really aren’t the same thing. Pictured above is a cicada which emerged from the ground. The adult, female form of this critter lays eggs usually in grooves in tree branches. The egg looks like a piece of rice. When the cicada hatches out of the egg, it nourishes on sap from the &#8230;]]></description>
		
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