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Mason Bees, Part… oh, I don’t know… 65?

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Happy Valentine’s Day, if you’re into that kind of thing.

As my three faithful readers may know, I am obsessed with mason bees (Osmia lignaria).  Honey bees and bumble bees are also quite awesome, but the mason bee I find particularly interesting because:

It’s native.  Whoo-hoo!  There’s something native to somewhere still! They [...]

Expounding

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OK, I was a little terse with the pictures. Allow me to elaborate.

There are a lot of kinds of bees. Many of those bee kinds are living in my yard right now. I’ve got blue and red masons (though, they seem to be about done), green metallic bees, those tiny guys (about [...]

No, I’m not dead.

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No, I have not given up my blog.

The combination of lots of work and a couple of weeks of crappy weather, and I just didn’t have it in me to write at the end of the day for a while. And, yes, I have a real job. Surprising, I know.

Let’s catch [...]

Chickens, bees, and neighbors

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What a day here in Portland. 70+ degrees and sunny all day.

What better time for my neighbor to break out his old-timey sprayer and start drenching his trees with noxious stuff? The trees hang over my fence? Well, then it was only right of him to tell me to get out of [...]