no photographs with this post (yet) but for this little off-beat post I am just commenting on doing the 'Slug Patrol' - i.e. this is the time of year that slugs - "common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc" - a common night crawler, are becoming prolific and one can scarcely walk onto the porch at night without squashing one or more. So with a square of paste-board and an ash shovel from the winter I did a quick patrol of the porch support walls and collected perhaps 30 odd slugs or so ranging in size from less than an inch long to one great seven inch long by a girth of perhaps close to three inches - imagine stepping on that in the dark in one's bare feet, uggg - which I then trans-located several hundreds of feet deep into the wood - we should be porch free of slugs for a while.
The Green Beetle
haven't identified this bug yet but he/she is gorgeous - perhaps 3/4 inch long (say 2 cm)
when I was a kid there was a great comic strip called 'The Green Hornet' which this guy brought to mind
Bee Shade
small blocks of wood hold the square of plywood high enough for nice ventilation on the hive lid and for a good part of the day the upper two tiers are also shaded - happier bees
Hot Weather Hard On The Bees
with the temperature in the high 90s (deg Fahrenheit - deg Cel @ 37) in the shade and our bees exposed to direct sun, we decided to provide a little shade
(been very busy lately and fewer chances to take photographs and probably for the next few days it might be the same)
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