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MoonFarmer
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: ellomello] 2
#25304690 - 07/02/18 03:12 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Something slowly devouring my raspberry bush. Big bites out of the leaf.
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: MoonFarmer] 1
#25309360 - 07/05/18 06:59 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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butterfly resting on a trich
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BattyKoda
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: BattyKoda] 1
#25313272 - 07/07/18 11:36 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Actually kind of looks like a type of wasp. But ALL pollinators are important. I bet those Susans are swarming (giggity) with life on the regular
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: MoonFarmer] 1
#25313329 - 07/07/18 12:09 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Great photo Snake.
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KannaKris
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: Feroxx] 1
#25314477 - 07/08/18 06:14 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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MoonFarmer
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: KannaKris] 1
#25317361 - 07/09/18 07:15 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Papilio glaucus or Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on my 'White Profusion' buddleia.
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: MoonFarmer]
#25324445 - 07/13/18 04:20 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: BattyKoda] 1
#25324450 - 07/13/18 04:23 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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I reckon cats aren't the only lovers of the nip
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MoonFarmer
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: KannaKris] 1
#25324453 - 07/13/18 04:26 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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I love all the bees in the Agapostemon genus, with the blues and greens. They love sunflowers, zinnias, and marigolds in my yard.
This is what it's all about brother 
Edit: My catnip has been flowering since last year, through multiple snowstorms and all. I'm in zone 7b
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KannaKris
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: MoonFarmer]
#25324475 - 07/13/18 04:44 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
MoonFarmer said: I love all the bees in the Agapostemon genus, with the blues and greens. They love sunflowers, zinnias, and marigolds in my yard.
This is what it's all about brother 
Edit: My catnip has been flowering since last year, through multiple snowstorms and all. I'm in zone 7b 
Yeah dude, I see them all the time on my flowers as well! I am in zone 7A, and my Catnip came back all over the yard with a vengeance! None could survive the winter here through.
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MoonFarmer
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: KannaKris]
#25325018 - 07/13/18 09:14 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Since we are so close in zones, do you see many bumblebees? Not carpenters, they have little to no hairs on their abdomen.
I ask because I've only seen 2 species in my yard the last 3 years and only a handful each year.
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KannaKris
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: MoonFarmer]
#25325438 - 07/14/18 06:40 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sadly, I can't even remember the last time I saw an actual bumblebee, and not a carpenter bee in my yard. I have a few honey bees, and some carpenters, tons of wasps,and hornets, but no bumbling bees anymore
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MoonFarmer
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: KannaKris] 1
#25325942 - 07/14/18 12:44 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was afraid that's what you were going to say.....the last few years I've been getting more into growing natives for pollinators so maybe I can bring more in.
Everyone has been so focused on the non-native honeybees (as important as they are in our food chain now) that the bumblebee populations have slowly been dwindling and largely unnoticed. I read a few years ago that bumblebees were abundant in the midwest and west except for a few select species. Fast forward to now and there's this https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/bumblebees-endangered-species-rusty-patched/
The article is only a year and half old.
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KannaKris
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: MoonFarmer]
#25326038 - 07/14/18 01:40 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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This saddens me so much
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DualWieldRake
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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: KannaKris]
#25326313 - 07/14/18 04:34 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Could be related to spinosad
While not outright deadly in low dosage it is still be detrimental to the bees functioning
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hummingbird

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I feel lucky then. I had some bumblebees build a nest in one of the small hügelkultur beds in the garden this year. Here is one on some bee's friend(Phacelia tanacetifolia)...not sure which exact bumble it is.

I love the sweat bees (Halictid) too! One type likes build their cool little sandcastle nests in the straw mulched flower beds.
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KannaKris
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Amazing!!!
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hummingbird

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Re: Bugs on Plants thread [Re: KannaKris] 2
#25327887 - 07/15/18 02:30 PM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Here is one of their homes, I'm pretty sure they are Agapostemon texanus.
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