Backyard Wildlife

[Canuck from Kansas]

Do they still use deer butt signs in PA. As I recall they came up with the idea of strategically placing illuminating signs of a deer's butt "flagging" (tail up). This was an alert to other deer that danger was on the horizon. I believe it was moderately successful in reducing the number of deer kills.

I have not seen those, sounds cool though.

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

I wish we had a praying mantis to watch at our house! We would be fascinated, too!

You can buy them at Lowes (by Alderwood Mall). They usually have them spring time thru early summer.

 

[tkww]

I'm having a bad aphid year. Kale, dill, and hellebore are taking the worst of it

I've pretty much stopped growing kale because of it. They won't bother much else, but they absolutely hammer my kale.

 

[Tom Butler]

I've pretty much stopped growing kale because of it. They won't bother much else, but they absolutely hammer my kale.

The aphids were really bad at out place earlier, then it seemed like we had ladybugs everywhere.
Matter of fact the mantis is having one for breakfast. It let two box elder bugs go yesterday, guess some shells make it difficult. Here it's tearing off the shell to get at the good stuff.