Well...back. Here in the city....I can report one hummer here.. And one at mothers in north AL.plenty of butterflies in both places... Enough for a series of catapillars on Brugs difficult finding my catapillar killer anywhere... I took it to be pressure from the butterfly husbandry folks... Lots of bees here in the city... We lost about every one during their west Nile scare sprayings...of a few years ago... Nope we spray in the evenings... When the bees aren't about.. No harm to them... Right... And through recovery.. And the fact that bee keeping is no longer a crime here.. There are lots of local bee hives.. I can buy honey from a number of hives around me.. But
just get it from some of his hives a bit further upstate.. As I have no allergy problems to combat.. And it's about 1/2 the cost.. And is still unprocessed in any way..
Being away ....between here and mothers three times already this summer...springing her from the recovery center the last trip.. And setting up home care for her....I haven't had the time to keep the players in the cage fight I run here properly separated ..some of the bullies are running wild..so at both places I spend a lot of time pulling them apart and penalizing them through snipping.. But with no daily interventions they are right back at it... And I'm left with chaos galore... But an everchanging floral display...
