Decided with my time off and Covid around I would make up a rock garden around our big tree and water fountain.
We have a Huge rockery up in the mountains by our place, I will have to do another truck load run. Its 100 bht for one bed full.
Our 3 dogs watched me sweat my ass off while the fan cooled them off.
^Highly likely. Quite difficult to recognize if you are not expert, my case either. Many times seeing it in various forms of development.
One of the wisdom I heard, to boil it with rice, in case the rice turns black it's bad... (I haven't tried that's why still alive...)
^^ Looks poisonous to me. Edible parasol mushrooms have a stalk with scales, like snake skin. When you break the stalk it must be hollow as well. So no, don't eat it.
Not in my garden but being astonished by the colors seeing these days around...
The green trees in background on left and right are typical acacia
I've never been jealous of a toad before...
^Looks like he is really giving it to her with the legs at full stretch
I sent the Minx a photo of my uprooted palm tree half way through the job today.
She asked me if I wanted her to come over and give me a hand. Bless her little cotton sox. She weighs in at about 38kg so I passed on her generous offer.
Fookin massive struggle dragging that palm 20m to its new spot.
It is 4.5 metres tall and weighs a fookin ton with the soil/root ball attached. I had to be careful not to damage my back just trying to roll it to its new spot. Hope it survives the trauma of relocation OK.
I finished replanting the palm tree in its new location.
It was task that pushed me to the limits of my strength and quite a challenge.
I had just finished when the long lost Miss Surigao Del Norte of the little red suitcase popped in without warning to squeeze my mangoes and pull my python after leaving me a surprise Christmas present on Christmas day. What a good sport and a jolly nice surprise.
She even asked if she could come and help when I move the next one. I did not know that dragging palm trees around would hold any appeal for the ladies.
Shouldn't the long lost Miss be positioned also with 90 deg counterclockwise as the palms above?
I've had a couple of birds in my garden lately...
The hoopoes are back... nesting in a better positioned nest box... more sheltered than previously so hopefully they'll get better luck this year.
The pair are back and forth continually, bringing food to their chicks.
This nest box had a pair of magpie robins nesting earlier in the year.
The pigeons are also nesting... despite his good food, Yogi has taken to catching and eating them. I've never known a dog do that before but it does help to keep the population down.
And we also had a gang of these black bugs flying around yesterday. They must be almost two inches long... don't know if they sting or not?
Will not sting you. But……….
Kill it. Stomp on it. Hunt it down. Net it. Spray it. Build traps for it.
Carpenter Bee
Clever camouflage - looks just like a plastic bottle.
^^ I read a bit about them but the general consensus seems to be to leave them alone as they're such good pollinators.
Why kill it... is it their damage to wood? I couldn't really find anything that bad about them. I cheated a bit and this pic was just outside our garden and I could see them coming in and out of this hole in a dead tree. I'll get a pic of the hole tomorrow.
Seems they lay in bamboo and woody plant stems / softer woods, live and let live.
Kill it/them when you see them come out.
They do more damage to wooden structures than they are worth.
How Much Damage Can A Carpenter Bee Cause?.
Do not believe the statement in the article about protecting your wood. No protection whatsoever can stop these bees (but death).
Short story.
Had an old wooden barn on a piece of property. It had started to lean. I asked everyone try to avoid entering the structure because it was unsafe.
While I was away some of the guys decided to dismantle it (removing some of the scattered good pecky cypress).
They loaded a 30 yard container with the wood. When the tractor trailer left with the container there was a cloud hovering over it. They were carpenter bees.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
^ Landreth, i take it that wasn't in Thailand? I have never heard of them being a problem there, termites yes but not these bees. Just my two pence worth.
^^ That is a perfect hole to stick your finger in and give it a waggle.
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