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For the most part the advertisers are full of it when it comes to their "deer resistant" claims.

The big kitties were reported in PA a long time ago. Not that far to NJ. I have seen the big kitty tracks in the two track in the right of way beside my house.

Russian Almond

Got down to 17°F during the night. It's 19°F now. The plant looks fine this morning.

@WannaBeHillBilly I planted my Jerusalem Artichokes last fall. This is the first one to come up.

Keep telling yourself that.

Some of us still have hair.

If I get one stuck in my hair, I swat it immediately. That has saved me lots of stings.

It's coming. Had one get down the front of my shirt two days ago. Luckily it flew back out as soon as I leaned over. The one that got tangled in my beard did get me.

If they get tangled in your hair, they will sting.

Yesterday I saw the first drone of the year.

My bees abandoned the remaining crocuses. Golden willows are in bloom.

Once you add the sugar the chlorine can combine with the sugar. Also boiling the sugar water can change the chemical form of the sugar. Any candy maker knows this from the different stages from soft drop through hard crack. I boil the water uncovered for a minute or two, remove the pot from...

The dechlorination needs to happen before you add the sugar.

As I recall from the last one here, they went in the hive as it got dark and came back out once it was light again.

It's recommended to boil the water for one minute to gas off any chlorine if you have chlorinated water.

Just don't hug them. That will elicit a sting response.

The last time I ordered bees from a certain place, the packages went from there to a place in Texas. The postal facility in Texas held the packages until the bees were dead before shipping them on to the destination. The company that shipped the bees were willing to ship replacement bees but...

Apparently someone had some escaped package bees. They could show that the queens needed to be delivered quickly and that there would be no escaped bees. I have not seen any bees escape from a package but have seen loose bees that had inadvertently been on the outside of the packages when...