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USDA 7a, Heat zone 6 / -5F to 110F+ degrees range of fun.
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I've spent a long time fighting fire.
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The geese got a new pond. Need to trim some of the geotextile and put some of the sod back around to cover the edges. I put part of a pallet in too for a ladder/ramp for them to get out but I have some of the geotextile folded in on the corners too which also works. I might but more of it weight down with rocks just to keep them from clawing up the liner, which is LDPE. I timed my water flow in a bucket so this thing holds about 500 gallons of water.
Some kind of little bee I don't feel like looking up. ;) It's on a bearded iris petal.
#bees #NativePollinators #pollinators #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #BeardedIris #NotSpicy
Bombus huntii
#bees #bombus #BumbleBee #BombusHuntii #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee
Seriously, where's the 'tricolor', it's like the third color is sitting in a chair off to the side watching.
#flowers #FlowersOfMastodon #BloomScrolling #ViolaTricolor #YellowFlowers #ViolaFlower
Viola 'tricolor'
#flowers #FlowersOfMastodon #BloomScrolling #ViolaTricolor #BurpleFlowers #YellowFlowers
A baby Turdus migratorius. Wasn't peeping, didn't care I was taking a closeup photo. The parent bird I just saw didn't care or maybe didn't know this one was sitting here. It's probably from the nest that was under the roof of the shed where it is sitting.
Pasty butt check! The last one checked was the only one. Cleaned up, lubed, and good to go!
The final chick count is 14! 7 sorta black ones and 7 brown/blonde ones. Each basic color has some variations like brown faces on the black ones and/or gray blush. Some of the brown ones are darker and others have that gray blush to them.
The new apiary is getting full. I had to pull the bait hive down that I had just put back up to take 4 frames out of but I only had 9 total so I had to glue up 5 frames then I reset the bait hive and added the 10th to the deep box and closed it up with a jar of food this evening. It's all on bare foundation freshly waxed. I kept two drawn frames in the bait hive to increase the chance of catching another swarm I don't need.
