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Terry Coombs wrote:
.... In that case , poison the little suckers in the shed . yeah, i got up early this morning and gave them some trouble. it definitely knocked the population count down, cuz now when i pound on the wall there's not quite so much noise in there. then i got the tools out of there i needed and plugged it all up again for the day. Good beekeeper etiquette would be for the owner of those hives to contact you before placing them ... if they're actually on your property without permission , you probably have legal recourse to either make the owner move them or pay you for the use of your property . My hives are all within 50 feet of the house and we rarely have any problems . They can be a little ****y during times of dearth , but usually only bother us when I've been in the hives for an inspection . i gotta be diplomatic, yet get the point made... friends own the property to the north which shares the access road. i think they forgot completely that we share that road... what i'm planning on doing is telling them that it's ok to leave them this season, but to not put them there next year. they'd need to put them back another few hundred feet to not be a problem if we need to use the access cleared through the trees. songbird |
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George Shirley wrote:
.... Damn Snag, you the man. I can honestly say I have never been stung by a honey bee. Wasps, yes, bees no. One of my Dad's friends about sixty years ago was a bee keeper and taught me how to handle them with a smoker so we could get their honey. Brought back some good memories to this old head. Now bumble bees living in the ground are another memory and not so good, particularly when I drove the bulldozer over their nest. Rascals hit me in my back so many times they knocked me out. If I had known they were there I would have left them alone. that would have been a nightmare! those suckers hurt! i don't think i've ever been stung by a honey bee here either, always either a hornet, wasp or bumblebee and always my fault (except this last time where she got me twice). songbird |
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~misfit~ wrote:
.... It also doesn't mention the fact that yellowjackets can bypass caterpillars chemical protection so that they'll always go for the easy-to-see caterpillars such as monarch butterfly larvae. I grow plants specifically to nurture several species of ornamental butterflies and the wasps always take their larvae but never seem to find the well-camoflaged larvae of 'pest species' such as cabbage white butterfly. when i was growing cabbages, i would sit and watch the wasps gather the eggs and worms. they did help, but not enough to get them all. Wasps will completely eradicate a large population of monarch butterfly larvae while my vegetable crops get eaten to the ground by hornworms and the like which the wasps never touch. yes, nothing seems to get the tomato worms other than me. i've yet to see any signs of the parasitic bug that supposedly will use them as a host. there are at least two tomato worms out there that i have not found yet, either it is too late and they are done and back in the ground or they are being particularly sneaky. oh well, it's ok there's plenty... nice rain today and some yesterday too and the day before plus i watered that morning so the ground is finally getting a good soaking. it's been a few months of too dry weather. a nice day for reading and frogging around here. songbird |
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On 7/30/2016 7:39 AM, songbird wrote:
~misfit~ wrote: ... It also doesn't mention the fact that yellowjackets can bypass caterpillars chemical protection so that they'll always go for the easy-to-see caterpillars such as monarch butterfly larvae. I grow plants specifically to nurture several species of ornamental butterflies and the wasps always take their larvae but never seem to find the well-camoflaged larvae of 'pest species' such as cabbage white butterfly. when i was growing cabbages, i would sit and watch the wasps gather the eggs and worms. they did help, but not enough to get them all. Wasps will completely eradicate a large population of monarch butterfly larvae while my vegetable crops get eaten to the ground by hornworms and the like which the wasps never touch. yes, nothing seems to get the tomato worms other than me. i've yet to see any signs of the parasitic bug that supposedly will use them as a host. there are at least two tomato worms out there that i have not found yet, either it is too late and they are done and back in the ground or they are being particularly sneaky. oh well, it's ok there's plenty... nice rain today and some yesterday too and the day before plus i watered that morning so the ground is finally getting a good soaking. it's been a few months of too dry weather. a nice day for reading and frogging around here. songbird In our Louisiana garden we had to patrol two or three times a day for tomato worms, have not seen one here at all. We do have a large population of barn swallows, purple martins, and other insect eating birds during the day and, at night the bats come out. I know they've been eating the mosquitoes and have seen them take moths and butterfly's both. Of course our tomatoes are out now, temps running into 100+ almost daily. Crowder peas have been pulled, the original cukes are gone but the new cukes are blooming like crazy. We still have four pepper plants that are producing but the fruit is much smaller due to the heat. I'm ready for cooler weather, if it wasn't for AC we couldn't live here. That being said I grew up in SE Texas and we only had fans, attic fans, floor fans, any kind of fan we could get. We must have had 20 or more screened windows in that old house and there was generally a light breeze blowing, thank goodness for that. My folks had never had AC until 1957, I turned eighteen that year and was in the Navy, who also didn't have AC. |
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