woodlandfarms
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- Joined
- Jul 31, 2006
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- Location
- Los Angeles / SW Washington
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- PowerTrac 1850, Kubota RTV x900
We had a broken water heater take out our kitchen in our crappy manufactured home. Crazy that insurance wants us to repair it when the value of the new kitchen is more than the value of the house. whatever.
Anyway, water mitigation people start screaming and running out of the tented area. In our wall bumblebees had made a home. Thankfully it is really cold and rainy in the PNW so they were not as active as they could be.
I am not afraid of any animals, reptiles, fish, insects (although I am sure I would jump if I saw one of those 10" spiders they have in other parts of the world). I am respectful, but not afraid. So I grabbed my gloves and a trash bag and went to the exposed wall. I dug out the insulation in a big wad and put it in the bag, the few bees that I didn't get I shushed out the window.
Now the bag of bees was not really pleased, so I grabbed a plastic bucket, went out to a wood pile we have, and dumped the contents. Put the bucket up high and out of the rain and headed in.
Did some reading last night and got all excited about buiilding a bumble bee house. That is until I read they don't come back and you have a less than 3% chance of them ever re-colonizing. So I just grabbed a file box, some mesh and some more insulation and have given them a temporary home until they go to bumble bee heaven. I hope it works, I hate the fact we are loosing them so rapidly. Would be nice if I can save this colony.
Anyway, water mitigation people start screaming and running out of the tented area. In our wall bumblebees had made a home. Thankfully it is really cold and rainy in the PNW so they were not as active as they could be.
I am not afraid of any animals, reptiles, fish, insects (although I am sure I would jump if I saw one of those 10" spiders they have in other parts of the world). I am respectful, but not afraid. So I grabbed my gloves and a trash bag and went to the exposed wall. I dug out the insulation in a big wad and put it in the bag, the few bees that I didn't get I shushed out the window.
Now the bag of bees was not really pleased, so I grabbed a plastic bucket, went out to a wood pile we have, and dumped the contents. Put the bucket up high and out of the rain and headed in.
Did some reading last night and got all excited about buiilding a bumble bee house. That is until I read they don't come back and you have a less than 3% chance of them ever re-colonizing. So I just grabbed a file box, some mesh and some more insulation and have given them a temporary home until they go to bumble bee heaven. I hope it works, I hate the fact we are loosing them so rapidly. Would be nice if I can save this colony.
