Aaaaahhhh! the Bees! Not the Bees!
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Jenn TheCaLLisComingFromInsideTheHouse
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Bees, bees, bees!
Comments (12)Well, yuck, that's one of my least favorite things to find dead in the garden. My latest sighting was the first leaf-footed bug of the season. It wasn't in my garden. It was on the native plum fruit. I reached out with a pair of scissors to cut it in half, but it saw them coming and quickly fell into the tall grass in the pasture next door, as our plum trees grow right along the fence line. Maybe I'll get that leaf-footed bug another day, hopefully before it moves to the tomato plants. We haven't had all that many garden pests yet, and a lot of the ones that prey specifically on cool-season crops never showed up. Caterpillars are really starting to show up now, and the number of baby grasshoppers is scary. The big thing I'm seeing tons of is spider mites, both in the fields and in the garden. I gues one reason there's so many in the garden is because the fields are full of them. I saw some vetch plants underneath the native plums that are totally bleached out in color already due to the spider mites. I guess we can blame all the early heat for the really robust herd of spider mites everywhere. I had noticed spider mites on the bush bean plants, but the bush beans have been producing forever and are slowing down now so I'm thinking of yanking them out before the spider mites can spread and find the pole beans and southern peas....See MoreTerritorial bee chasing all other bees away
Comments (1)Wool carder bees are known to do that. (We have them here in Portland, Oregon.) No, you shouldn't be concerned....See MoreKorean Evodia (Bee Bee) Tree
Comments (0)...See MoreGrowing Korean Evodia Bee Bee Trees
Comments (4)I supposedly have one in my yard, but for years I have thought the nursery shipped the wrong tree. The leaves make it appear to be the correct tree, but the bark is more striped than the smooth gray it should be. It has never flowered from what I can tell, and I have over the years on weekly occasions gone out to check the tree for flowers because many years I would all of a sudden see small round seed pods or the like on the tree?? None of it has ever added up except for the leaves. It is a nice-looking, probably 15' or more tree, but I wanted it specifically for the flowers since I have a heptacodium on the other side of the yard and thought they would complement each other with late flowers for the bees. The other odd thing about the tree is that it has very shallow and extremely yellow roots. I see your seedling does not have yellow roots. So between the bark and the roots, I don't think at the very least is it daniellii that I have. Your seedlings look terrific and I hope you enjoy many of these trees for years to come!!!...See Moreaok27502
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