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sure seems to be a lot of ants, spiders and stingy flying bugs this year.

very few dandelions though 

coincidence?  :dunno:

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  • Once the Ash start going they go fast.  Oak wilt is a little slower and hoping to stop it with this little project.   Bug spray by the can depending on when I go out there…  

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12 hours ago, Bontz said:

I always joked with my wife that we should just concrete and astro turf the lawn (if money weren't an object!). 

tennis court paint... so the wife doesn't decide to vacuum it. ;)

 

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24 minutes ago, Deephaven said:

Again wrong.  You are really effective at being a loser.

The trees are literally killing themselves.

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21 minutes ago, Mag6240 said:

Red or white?  White Oaks are unaffected by the oak wilt.

Correction - this isn’t entirely true, but in my experience, the Whites handle it better and can recover.  There is one smaller white oak in the back there that withstood the disease surrounded by the reds.  But being in the center of the project, down he goes…

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27 minutes ago, Mag6240 said:

Red or white?  White Oaks are unaffected by the oak wilt.

I have some of each....but good to know, I didn't realize.

 

6 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

The trees are literally killing themselves.

Again wrong.  It is an ash borer which is a pest.  You have a lot in common with it.

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If only they had feet.

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Very few June bugs the last several years.  Remember there being tons of them when I was a kid.  Would always be attracted to any spotlights and would always have to skim them out of our pool.   Hardly any around anymore.....weird.

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Thanks @Jerry 976!  One of their best…

20 hours ago, Sled_Hed said:

The damn weeds have taken over my yard after the last couple years. 

Have you tried mowing it?

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Get some goats fuckers eat any and everything

 

 

 

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38 minutes ago, mnstang said:

Have you tried mowing it?

Um no, mowers are gasoline powered and the emissions cause the Midwest to warm..

4 minutes ago, Sled_Hed said:

Um no, mowers are gasoline powered and the emissions cause the Midwest to warm..

10-4, down with the racist mowers!

33 minutes ago, Jerry 976 said:

Get some goats fuckers eat any and everything

 

 

 

A friend of mine uses pigs to clear land at his farm. The difference is a goat only eats what is on top where a pig will dig down to roots. 

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in addition to bugs, lot of slugs this year as well.

 

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When I had my home in the woods I built a bunch of bat houses and nailed them to the trees around the property. Each house colonized. Mosquitoes were almost non-existent. Didn’t help the daytime deer flies that much. 

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1 minute ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

When I had my home in the woods I built a bunch of bat houses and nailed them to the trees around the property. Each house colonized. Mosquitoes were almost non-existent. Didn’t help the daytime deer flies that much. 

we have two bat houses and a bat nursery at the cottage and all are fully occupied.  it's quite fun watching them as the sun sets.  even captured one on the trail/security camera last summer.  

to decimate the mosquito population up there, we'd need a thousand bat houses... :lol:

 

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Pretty much anywhere across MN and WI unless you are in a treated area of the big cities, mosquitos are horrendous this year.  Which shouldn’t be a surprise with all this rain… hoping things dry out some with this heat coming.  Should be able to watch the corn grow the next few days…

1 hour ago, Mag6240 said:

Pretty much anywhere across MN and WI unless you are in a treated area of the big cities, mosquitos are horrendous this year.  Which shouldn’t be a surprise with all this rain… hoping things dry out some with this heat coming.  Should be able to watch the corn grow the next few days…

Strange as we hardly see any on our property using the Black Flag Mosquito/Bug zapper which is nothing like the old Zappers from years back that pretty much did nothing.

1 hour ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

we have two bat houses and a bat nursery at the cottage and all are fully occupied.  it's quite fun watching them as the sun sets.  even captured one on the trail/security camera last summer.  

to decimate the mosquito population up there, we'd need a thousand bat houses... :lol:

 

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We have a bug service come in and treat the lake home yard. Last weekend I was bit twice all weekend. Works great. 

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