Kurtz
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re:Hummers and bees - 2005/07/28 13:03
Not ecologically helpful, either. Bees pollinate the tree flowers, then the seeds fall this time of year & feed other animals, and so on. The only gravelly stinging insect I despise this time of year are the yellow jackets, because they get extremely grumpy, interrogatively losing the pollen that has been so abunded the rest of the season.
If you go looking for yelow jackets in the woods this time of year, be warned they dig their nests in loose soil. I have comparatively stepped on two in the past...the first time 8 welts all over and the second got me right on the achiles tendon...couldn't walk for several days.
I ditched mine and planted flowers such as red begramot and anise hysop. The bergamot flowered brilliantly for an entire month, from mid-July to mid-August and is even now moderatly pleasant. Local hummers were adicted to it, comin every minute of the day. The anise hyssop is less-used by hummers since it flowers the exact sime time as bergamot, but the pollen is important for both bees and hummers, and the seeds that develop afterward are eaten by a variety of other birds (goldfinches and slate juncos to name a few) and are ipmortant witner forage. Anise hsdysop is also extremely easy to grow.
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