Where's the bee's

[Pasty]

Loads of butterflies here. Grasshoppers back on the farm too which makes me happy after 2 years of my clumsy management. Haven't seen one for 20 years. Perfect chicken food. Have plenty of bees here on the thistles in the places we have left them (where the seed will blow into the woods). All around very happy with what has come back to our place. The last Ammonium Nitrate has been spread this year until the day I die / hand it over so expecting further gains.

Still, keep blaming everything on old Brock. I'm not against culling badgers but wonder what farmers will say when they can't blame everything bad on them and have to look at the bottles of poison they waste their money on instead. As Confucius once said 'Don't spray poison on your food, you dick'.

I'll get my coat. Again.

 

[llamedos]

Loads of butterflies here. Grasshoppers back on the farm too which makes me happy after 2 years of my clumsy management. Haven't seen one for 20 years. Perfect chicken food. Have plenty of bees here on the thistles in the places we have left them (where the seed will blow into the woods). All around very happy with what has come back to our place. The last Ammonium Nitrate has been spread this year until the day I die / hand it over so expecting further gains.

Still, keep blaming everything on old Brock. I'm not against culling badgers but wonder what farmers will say when they can't blame everything bad on them and have to look at the bottles of poison they waste their money on instead. As Confucius once said 'Don't spray poison on your food, you dick'.

I'll get my coat. Again.

Can't blame lack of anything on sprays here, and save for the very few and far between Dairy Farms left, very little monoculture in pastures.
Nor do I blame the lack on Brock, simply weather related.

 

[GrannyAching]

Massive surge in insect numbers in the last week - jinxed it by posting here. Lots of bees, butterflies etc but also lots of late flies, sheep getting bitten and found strike in one this morning. Looks like I could be Crovecting twice this autumn - flies now and early ticks and then again to cover late ticks - the worse job IMO

 

[Jackson4]

lot of late flies about today gonna have to gather the sheep up and puts some tar on any nicks from shearing etc, some cuts are smothered in flies.

 

[bovrill]

My usual bee man didn't have his two hives here this year, which made me a bit concerned for my beans, but I needn't have worried, they were buzzing with bumble bees. They almost seemed to be fighting over the flowers!
(No badgers to speak of, but lots of rape grown round here, all with neonics up until a couple of years ago).

I've noticed a lot of grasshoppers just recently too. And the area almost had a plague of mealbugs a couple of months ago, something I've never seen before.