I do have carpenter bees and a larger and smaller bumble bees… but I am no expert in bees. Not sure I could tell a carpenter from a bumble. The larger bumble bees are in love with my raspberry blossoms for sure.
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hmm… never seen them up here. we have masons and leafcutter and some hover flies.
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I have “extra “ if you happen to want some.
You catch .
All you want .
Very destructive to any exposed wood on buildings around here.
They are good pollinators, Often are busy when other things aren’t.
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We have carpenters here. They can do a ton of damage quickly. If it’s the same thing? We put gum over the hole in the wood and they can’t get out. They can year the hell out of a wood porch
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There’s more of 'em in Kentucky than when I was a kid…or maybe they just like soft wood and not the rough sawn oak of 70 to 100 years ago. (Before that it was chestnut lumber…and I don’t know but it must have been pretty resistant to insects.)
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Finally have over 60 bats in the house I build last year.
I hope I don’t catch some deadly virus from mowing around the bat guano?
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great fertilizer! our little brown bats are endangered here from a fugus thats killing them. ive had 2 houses for them put up but no one home yet.
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Cool. That’s what guano looks like, kind of like rodent droppings. I’ve looked under mine, but didn’t really have in mind what I was looking for.
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not as fast as rabbits though.
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True dat. But these broilers grow crazy faster than a regular breed. 6 of them are BIG Murray Red Broilers and are getting huge fast!
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better than cornish crosses. they grow too fast. never cared for the taste of the meat. too fatty.
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Sometime last night something tore up part of the garden in the front of my house. It is mostly cover crops that I should have already cut down already, so not too much lose in terms of plants, but it dug out a lot dirt as well. It is hard to see from the pictures, but the hole is about 2.5 feet X 2 feet by about a foot deep in the deep parts. And there is a bit of fluff (rabbit) in the hole as well. I know we have a few coyotes around lately, so I was wondering if a coyote might have found a rabbit burrow here and dug up and ate the rabbit? Thoughts?
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I am not sure about your situation, but I was solving similar puzzle on my own recently. I started noticing broken branches on low growing woody plants like raspberries and baby sour cherry. Damage was too high for the rabbit and we do not have any large animals. I didn’t pay much attention to it but was somewhat puzzled. Then I saw another thing that makes me crazy. I have a young peony, just one bud and it was supported by very old and somewhat thin conic cage. So I saw the cage on the ground. When I came closer it looked like somebody just stepped on the side of the cage at about 1.5 foot from the ground. And the peony is growing on a terrace where nobody walking at all!So after some thinking I registered that all the damage occurred where rabbits usually hiding… So the answer came naturally: most likely the damage was done by hawk that was hunting the rabbit.
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Although this is only garden in the background, I am sharing this story with everyone I know. We heard something scratching at our front door this morning. And found a large snapper trying to get in! Or really, trying to get home but our house was between her and the pond. FTR, I live in suburban Maryland 
And, after some discussion, we got a shovel and relocated her around the house, and watched her the rest of the way (~500 yards) to the pond.
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Hahaha… Please. Please lemme in…
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Voles are as sneaky as they are destructive. I have found similar damage to potted plants that showed no hint of a problem until you notice how lightweight the pot is. I have been using a castor oil solution to drench pots after I saw a Youtube video of a guy with a Hosta nursery explain how well it work for him.
Voles & Mice: How To Have A Vole-Free Garden. Organic Recipe Included! - YouTube At 2:48 in the video he gives the recipe,
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guess i left the garage door open too long. got a robin nest built on my deer antlers hung on the wall. she almost whacked me in the head last week when i went in there to get a screwdriver. shes got 6 eggs right now so ill let her hatch and raise them. opened a back window so she can go in and out.
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We had a Robin building a nest in 6 rafter bays in the mill shed. She wasn’t happy when we cleared it all out.
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