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[drumstick diva]

Are the Asian beetles, the ones that try cramming into your home when the weather turns cold? The squeeze under doors etc, and end up flying around the house.

 

[Alaskan]

those are zombie Stephen King ice cream eaters

 

[ronott1]

Are the Asian beetles, the ones that try cramming into your home when the weather turns cold? The squeeze under doors etc, and end up flying around the house.

Do not think about bugs! Think about ice cream! Can you find the hidden lollipop?

Spoiler: click to see hidden lollipop

 

[CapricornFarm]

I like dandelions. .


yummy, free, and ya know what? I grow lots every year with zero effort

I am with you Al, i collected dandelion seeds to plant in the garden. Watch, they won't grow.

 

[CapricornFarm]

There are "native lady bugs" and "Asian lady beetles/bugs" here. The Asian lady bugs were imported to deal with aphid populations and "went rogue". They will bite humans, unlike the native ones, and are a bit larger, more orangeish. I don't have a problem with them other than they try to "hibernate" in our attic and barn and stink when they die.

Japanese beetles, as LS says, are a menace....eating my rose, cherry tree, filbert/hazelnut and grape leaves..."skeletonize" is the term I think. They started on the east coast and have gradually made their way here. We did not have any at our place for the first 10 years we lived here. I use a lure trap (or two or three) with the bottom cut off and hang it over a low sided container with water in it. Beetles go to the trap lure, drop inside and slide through and fall in the water. Chickens come along and "Beetle Buffet"! Empty the water at night and refill in the morning when I do the chicken water. I'm hoping our brutal winter reduced their numbers.

Those crappy bugs killed my rose bush last year, ate leaves, flowers, and the poor plant up and died. My Dad used to give me a can with gas in it and paid me a penny apiece to collect those bugs when i was a kid. Can you imagine giving a kid gas in a can?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Thanks @CapricornFarm. If it was another prolapse I don't know what to do at this point as I put them on lower protein food after I lost a hen to a prolapse last fall and wanted to drop weight on the rest of the Buff Os. I do Keel Bone checks regularly and I'd say that 80% are where they should be and 20% are a bit thin. This hen that I just lost showed no signs of illness at all. She was out scratching around with the other hens and looking for a cool breeze like we all were. Went to roost and died.

Told DH that I was starting to hate going out to the big chicken's coop in the morning. I had 22 large fowl hens. Down to 13 in 18 months. Rooster loss has been high also, but at least the bantam gang is holding their own, the only loss in over a year being the little cockerel that just died at 3.5 months of age. My hens are happily sitting on 3 eggs apiece and trading eggs and nests regularly. I can 't wait to see them swap chicks.

I finally got over the dread of checking the coops, been a while since i found a dead one. They will be a year old in mid August.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Are the Asian beetles, the ones that try cramming into your home when the weather turns cold? The squeeze under doors etc, and end up flying around the house.

Yep, them and stink bugs.

 

[NotAFarm]

I see it @ronott1
Don't know how to do the spoiler thingee or would post the answer

 

[ronott1]

Answer for the hidden lollipop

Spoiler: click to see hidden lollipop

 

[NotAFarm]