A little worried about a freeze here Monday morning. Otherwise it looks like a nice week up here. Maybe we can even squeak out some breaks Sun afternoon.
• Proven to not harm, bees, pollinators or other beneficial insects
(such as parasitic wasps and beneficial nematodes that also kill grubs).
I see no mention of earthworms? I would only want to kill the non-native insects.
Had the pellet stove on in the living room last night. A toasty 80F in there and 75F in the bedrooms when I woke up...even with a low setting. Sometimes you have to make your own torch.
Anyone know anything about carpenter bee behavior? There was one flying around my nesting boxes this afternoon that I was trying to keep out. They normally burrow up near the roof of the coop every year. Anyway, I went outside this evening to clean the boxes and noticed 9 dead carpenter bees on the ground below that spot that weren’t there earlier. Is it likely that the other bee pulled them out of the top of the coop and that they were already dead while overwintering? I’ve never seen that before.
Up to 56.8F here and thankfully clouds saved us from hitting freezing. It was 34F at 4am, but then slowly crept back up. Winner of an afternoon though. We take.