That’s it, that’s the post. Get a good uv light, head into the garden at night, clip branches and remove any unwanted visitors. You can bring them to a non threatening spot across the land or down the road where they wont bother anyone else’s garden.
It’s all MINE, don’t even think of harvesting my motherload
/uj spotted at my parents property in Idaho, bushes got cut down and these shits appeared
I image there are other places doing this, but it was cool to see a story about this so close to home.
TLDR: park in the Finger Lakes region of New York (which is a grape-growing region) is going to purposefully keep a couple of their trees of heaven and pump them full of pesticides to mitigate the emerging threat of spotted lanternfly
I could really use some advice.
I invested in a really beautiful hand-blown glass hummingbird feeder that I found on Etsy because I wanted to attract ruby-throated hummingbirds to my suburban yard. I keep it clean, make fresh nectar, and have it hanging where it’s easy to see.
The problem is that the hummingbirds keep flying right past my feeder and spend all of their time at my neighbor’s bee balm. Is there anything I can do to make the hummingbirds prefer my feeder instead of the plant? Different nectar recipe? Better placement? Can hummingbirds eventually be trained to use a feeder if you’re persistent?
I’m getting more than a little frustrated watching it ignore my expensive feeder in favor of what looks like a muppet alien exploding in the neighbor’s yard.
So, my neighbor's yard is full of natives (90% natives, in fact.) However, it's come to my attention that they actually have multiple roses from David Austin. On top of that, they revealed to me the other day that most of their seeds were not collected locally (and therefore are not local ecotypes.) Now, I understand that local ecotypes can be hard to find in a suburban hellscape, but they really should have looked harder. And the roses are just unforgivable. I'm considering removing them from our gardening club until these issues are resolved.
Berks County, Pennsylvania. They rattle when shaken.
It’s almost knee length grass and wild flowers and I don’t think they have cut grass so far even once this year. Is it being done intentionally ?
I found these native insects displaying a normal behavior on a native tree that they co-evolved with for millennia, a behavior that poses very little risk to my healthy, established tree and helps countless bird species feed their chicks while the ecosystems and climate actively collapse.
I don't like it. Can I kill them?
Hello tree professionals,
Wife and I just bought our first home a few weeks back, previous owner put turf in the yard. Is this really bad, bad, or maybe just not so good for the trees? I’m trying to plan out my projects and need to know where this stands. I do see some dead branches but overall they look healthy to me? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We have a dog so turning it into a mud pit by ripping it up wouldn’t be ideal, but gotta do what you gotta do.
Thanks!
What kind of herbicide should I use to kill everything and replace it with monoculture grass?
Should I apply the herbicide directly onto the beehive?