grasses and a beetle

the second photo is of a ladybug that has adopted on my apple trees under the grow light as home... s(he) has been there since yesterday patrolling for aphids and whatever else in the way of lunch presents itself... a few spiders have moved in amongst the snow peas and scarlet runner beans ( and, appropriately, spider plants ) down there as well...those sorts of predators suit me fine...the rest of the photos are of teosinte in my back yard...they are coming along well but we aren't out of the woods as far as weather goes...they are up more than a month earlier than last year due to the unnatural weather and i'm unsure of how cold sensitive they are...true last spring was a cold one so perhaps it will be fine...i have a lot of frost cloth...one of the teosinte plants in sheltering in a half barrel planted with winter wheat...cousins of an extended family cohabiting...potato and legume cousins on the way as well as some form the sunflower family...a busy backyard this season.