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![Image 2 — Mouse or small rat? [North Carolina]](https://preview.redd.it/5vnzg8sbbd2h1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f062f5ae71311a716b3dc98328a1692e0c119be5)
![Image 3 — Mouse or small rat? [North Carolina]](https://preview.redd.it/onx5z5sbbd2h1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e1a113d40afa3d254115074c05b876d638ddedb)
My cat caught this but did not kill it. I usually let him eliminate rats from the garden as I don’t want them around and they don’t belong here anyway. Is this a native mouse of some kind in NC? Maybe a young rat?
Edit: Solved it’s a Vole thank you. ❤️
Should I try to separate these two? Do they have separate root systems or are they connected? Most importantly Is it true that the bigger of the two is definitely the clone of the mother? This is from a seed out of a clementine and I’m mostly interested in keeping the mother variety so if it’s not really practical to safely separate them I’ll probably just cut the unwanted one
I leveled some pavers for my hive to sit on and as they’ve sank I’ve had to do this super jank leveling procedure. I’m not sure how to fix it. Should I just move the hive to a whole new spot or is it not that big of a deal to move them for an hour or so and let them freak out and make orientation flights only to fix it properly and put them right back here?
I’ve been wanting to do a brood break for mite control reasons on one of my hives. I’ve been waiting for them to make swarm cells to make a nuc split and as a result cause a brood break. Then treat probably with oxalic acid in the window of time when there’s little or no capped brood left. My questions are 1) how effective is a brood break for mite control with vs without chemical treatment? And 2) how can I encourage them to make a good queen cell? It seems like most hives around that wanted to swarm have done so already and I don’t want to wait for the fall when they might want to again. What would lead them to supersede the current queen and is there a way to cause this? I just don’t want to steal the queen away and have them make an inferior emergency cell.
The queen is of unknown age but this is at least her third year and she’s starting to have a bit spotty of a laying pattern so I was planning to use the nuc split to draw out more comb, divide the resources, and then probably cull the queen or just let her live out the season to try overwintering in the nuc which I’ve never tried. Western NC zone 6b/7a.
Does anyone know what could be causing these holes and yellowing? The plants are otherwise pretty good looking. Will it impact the bulbs?
Had two varieties of mint plant escape a pot into the lawn. I knew that they were probably going to be permanent fixtures when it happened but it did seem like they died over winter. However they of course came up in the grass this spring. Doesn’t really bother me and it’s a rental house so I don’t think I’m gonna do anything to remove it but does serve as a reminder that mint is in fact as invasive as people say it is. Is it eventually going to spread throughout the whole lawn? How quickly does it happen?
I just bought this 10 frame box off of marketplace. Came with 10 frames of drawn out foundationless comb. I’m going through and cleaning it up a bit of burr comb and found some frames with old brood. I’m probably not going to give this box to a hive till next week but I’m wondering if I should do anything different with the brood frames vs the clean empty ones? I know most people in this sub just say across the board that the bees will clean them up no problem but I don’t know how the bees died other than the previous owner said that he switched to layens style hives and he had no use for the boxes or frames. NC USA zone 7a
Is there some reason for this or is it just something that happens