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Post by reed on Sept 2, 2007 19:11:16 GMT -5
Your right, haven't seen many bugs at all this year. My parents plant a small garden and usually the bugs are their biggest issue but this year the deer destroyed it. It looked like someone had locked the deer in and wouldn't let them out. They trampled whatever they didn't eat. Including habanero pepper plants, jalepeno plants, squash, cucumber, tomatoes, etc.. The squirrels pummeled the corn and the deer also ate every apple, peach, and pear they could reach standing up. I am thinking it was just to dry this year and they spent more time out of the woods eating.
I told my dad I would take care of the deer problem but he has neighbors real close that probably wouldn't want a deer bleeding out in their yard!
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Post by brettgerhart on Sept 2, 2007 20:10:37 GMT -5
I don't know what type of bee it was but I was sitting under an apple tree while dove hunting and there where three of the biggest bee's I have ever seen in my life!! HUGE!
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Post by deerehunter on Sept 3, 2007 7:00:10 GMT -5
My wife and I were looking at our apple trees yesterday and noticed some whopper sized bees............sounds sort of like what everyone else is talking about these were huge yellow orangish monsters big around as a finger. I thought they looked liked the carpenter bees ,the ones that put a 1/2" hole anywhere they can
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Post by 05wrangler on Sept 5, 2007 9:34:56 GMT -5
Last year was the first time that we've had a lot of them: usually showed up at night,around porch lights. Yellow jackets have been getting thick last 2 weeks. A soon as I pull out the trotline,to rebait, I'm covered! Anyone have what I call fruit wasps? They are also 1 1/2" to 2". Hollow out all my apples, just before they are ripe! A buddy told me they ar some sort of European fruit wasp-I should see him today at a shoot, so I'll pick his brain. That said, we have been pretty bug free this year. Usually have MILLIONS of Jap beetles, but only saw a relative few, and that was during a small window of time. Actually the correct name for the horse hornet is European Hornet....
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Sept 5, 2007 18:29:05 GMT -5
I found 1 dead on my porch this morning. I didn't kill it but it was there. I hope thats the only one around and I eradicated the rest of them last year.
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