New bees chit chat - come on in!! 06/07/2010

Yeah it is way huge..like 2 inches x 3 inches

What a beetle :)

Yowzah! I'll trade you - I suddenly have a mess of squash bugs!

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That lily is absolutely gorgeous, i'm jealous!

It's a Female Eastern Hercules Beetle.. The male has horns.. They're the largest beetle and completely harmless.. we went and showed her to my in-laws and then released her back outside near the woods.

No squash bugs for me! I found out what was/is getting in my garden.. not rabbits.. but an armadillo! He keeps making holes under potato stalks.. I'm assuming he's munching on new potatoes.. We spotted him about 500 yards up the road alive and kicking and then I realized it had to be him. The "drag" marks match his body and the little holes match his nose. uh huh.. now what do I do? He was gone for about 5 days and has been back the last couple of days. They are usually roadkill when you see them out here. I know they are nocturnal and it had rained hard all night the night before, maybe that's why he was out during the day.

mechelle i hate armadillos they can up root your whole garden in one night, not to mention a flower bed ive had them dig my lily bulbs up they ate half a madona bulb the only good armadillo is a dead onewe don,t kill animals but those things are on my hit list. good fense won,t keep one out i don,t do moles either cause they up root plants and dig in the roots looking for wqrms.

That is a beautiful Clematis Nettie... Do you know what the name of it is?

that is my favorite clematis dr. ruppel love the color sun or part shade and blooms spring and late summor for me.

lows did have them don,t know if they still do or not but you could check it out.

josh i love lilies as a mater of fact if it blooms i love it this one is called wild horse

Thanks Nettie! There is a Clematis co-opgoingonatcubits... I'll see if they have that one! I really like it!

Nettie we started some electric wire around the bottom of the t-posts around my garden. Hope that will keep him out. Gonna turn it up full blast! LOL

Oh my nettie, those are gorgeous, the clematis and the second lily! I'm a HUGE fan of both! The only problem is I have such a HUGE wish list and such a smaller yard! lol What can ya do tho? haha

good girl hope you fry him if you don;t he will keep comming back to see you. love nettie

rrm this one is for you to see

Hope you get the Armadillo Mechelle! Glad I don't have them here;o) Just squash bugs - yuck! I've been removing eggs forever but guess I missed a few - lol...

Mekos sent me these a while back... They look like the love lies bleeding which is red. Do they come in different colors - lol?

i have the ones with black spots i think they are lepord lilies. old lady gave them to me. love nettie they make tons of seeds. i can send you some if you like.

And this was part of my harvest for today...

Eggplant, zucchini, Armenian cukes, lots of 'maters, Okra and several peppers - yummy... I'm gonna try and fry the okra and see if I like it - lol...

dh just came through here and said smothing about mowing i think it is raining the man has mowed the whole 10 acers no danger of haveing any wild flowers come up. nettie

Loca, There is even a golden yellow, Amarath family.
Got this one, Nettie. No, nettie I don't have any like that. Just send me a seed if you don't mind.

Thanks RRM - I figured they had to be some kind of Amaranth...

That is a feathery kind, but they are pretty aren't they?
Here is a nice Bumblebee on a Monarda plant, these come up every year.

Love your bee pic! Here's one of a bee on a Vitex bloom. Bees love it and I can't seem to get a pic without a bee on it - lol...

I love the bumble bees, we don't have many honeybees here anymore.
I do have a Vitex tree, it is loaded. So pretty and blue.
More Bumbles......

Well since we're sharing bee pictures, here's mine.. He's busy pollinating this daylily.. I showed this to my DH this morning and he had never seen a pic of bees pollinating so he like it a lot, lol

Caught in the act!!! Great picture Mechelle

Loca, that is celosea plants,(probably not spelled right) they come in pink, yellow, orange, all pastel shades and colors. Then make lots of tiny black seeds. I started out with one plant and it dropped seeds and changed colors and now I have bunches all colors. I sent you some too nettie like the ones Locakelly has up there. Get about knee high. Here is a pink one, and the red wisteria tree in between the perriwinkle and it. The red wisteria is yours RRM, I repotted it in a pot by itself.

Thanks bob. He actually stayed there and let me get a few different pictures.. I think it's funny how he was covered in pollen. Little piggy!

Hi Mekos.. Great pictures everyone..Love those veggies Kelly!

Hi Mechelle. Loved your blooms too. I have got several seed pods on my Irises right now. Big ones. This is Savanah sunset seed pods all on the same bloom stalk. 3 of them.

Now when they are open pollinated outside, will the baby plants be the same as the original parent plant? MITT, Where are you when I need you?!?

Loca, are you sure you didn't get a love lies bleeding? I think I sent you one in that same pile of plants. It was red and layed over from the plant. (drooped down)

ok rrm ill send you some seed will have plenty. dhbuilt me this potting table need to show it off a little bit nettie

left over lumber, and old used sink, gives me a place to put things i don,t wont in the house or in the junk pile there are things in that trash pile that could be re used. love nettie.

mekos i hope enid knows some of the day lilies we got from flowering child are starting to bloom hope she doesn,t miss that

Yep mekos - there is a love lies bleeding too and I haven't killed 'em yet...

What I know about Irises, the only way to get the exact same plant as the parent is to divide the rhizome when it makes new fans. If it's the same as Daylilies with the seeds, they do not come true to the parent plant even if it was fertilized with it's own pollen. Hopefully Mit will chime in for sure since he hybridized them;o) I cut my bloom stalks off after they are done so no seeds for me;o(

Sometimes if the bees pollinate them they wont have any seeds or it will be a low seed count, is what I have read.. I too cut all my stems off after they bloomed since I didnt pollinate them myself and I wanted mine to spend there energy producing more irises instead of seeds until I get them established..

loca i love your veg they look good make me hungry love nettie.

loca get you some seven dust them little buggers run them out of your gsrden.they will get on other things so kill them. love and hugs nettie

Thanks Nettie! Made me so hungry I had to come in and make sauce - lol...

I'm organic so no Sevin in my garden... except maybe my size 7 shoe on their little pin heads!