Category: Deer and Wildlife
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Bush String Beans, Cantaloupe, Raccoons, and a HAY Slide!
We got to harvest some of our Bush String Beans yesterday. The bushes started producing beans when they were only a foot tall. These string beans were cooked for dinner and were delicious. (The picture below is only a fraction of the harvest, so everyone did get to eat string beans last night.) BELOW: This…
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Turkeys, Deer, Bear, Science Tip and Museum:
These beautiful Turkeys are starting to show up quite regularly on the trail cameras. Trail Cameras from this week: Not much on the cameras, but we are seeing some healthy deer and healthy turkeys. Below: In the last 20 years, the black bear population has expanded eastward from the Mississippi River. There are two subspecies…
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A solution that works on bees! (Well Maybe) and an insect that uses camouflage.
You have witnessed our bee problem on the hummingbird feeders. Now look at the solution we found on the internet. Below is a video of Bruce painting the Tea Tree Oil on the feeders. Notice how the bees now avoid the feeders. However, the TEA TREE OIL may be “dose related” because the video below…
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Bees, Problem plants, Zinnias, and Pumpkins
The bees and wasp have made it very uncomfortable to sit on the porch. We had bee feeders, but the there are so many bees and wasp that it is impossible to stay out of their way. We ordered more bee feeders and have decided to move these to the fence. Hopefully, the bees will…
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Trail Camera Pictures with turkeys, deer, white heron, hogs, and fawn. Also wasp, goats, and family.
Trail Camera Pictures- Turkeys, hogs, deer, and a fawn. Video Below: Buck, coyote, fox, and fawn. Slides Below: A Metric Paper Wasp is on the basil. This wasp will share its nest with similar species and will reuse its own nest. This wasp prefers to feed it larvae soft bodied insects like caterpillars. The other…
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Watermelon, Tsunami, Night Vision, Caterpillars, and Family
Our second watermelon patch has fruit! This watermelon is a different variety than the melons we harvested in August. The melon will have to get a little larger for us to determine the variety. Guess who looks fine today? Tsunami is no longer limping. BELOW: Night Vision binocular pictures of 1. Two deer in the…
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Goats, Bees, Butterflies, and stinging Caterpillars
Parasitic worms- Goats and Deer There are many theories on the length of the grass and pasture rotation to assist the goats in avoiding problems with parasitic worms. With the persistent drought, we did not realize our problem soon enough. Remember the deer (from previous blog) that had lumpy jaw from the nematodes? The drought…
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Since crows can learn, you would think we would! Also, plants to avoid.
We planted beans and only one sprouted. We planted pumpkin seeds that never sprouted. Bruce faithfully watered these seeds thinking eventually they would sprout. Today, we searched the ground for these defective beans and seeds. The beans and seeds never sprouted because the crows enjoyed a nice meal of beans and pumpkin seeds after watching…
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Bees, Frogs, Lizards, Spiders and ICE CREAM
Look at all the pollen on this bee (yellow ball by his legs). You would think he would have more than he can carry, but this bee is determined to gather more pollen from the tassels on the corn. Watch the video below this picture and you will see a second method of pollination. As…