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Backyard Wildlife
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Re: Backyard Wildlife
Really nice.
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Re: Backyard Wildlife
Great looking pond. Thanks for sharing the photos.
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Blue tailed skink. A common reptile in our area.
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Great shot! I've never seen one before. Thanks.
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Re: Backyard Wildlife
Cool photo, I haven't seen any like that since I was down in Guantanamo Bay Cuba where we used to have little green ones like that running around the barracks.
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Re: Backyard Wildlife - On the verge of Tadpoles
More backyard pond creatures engaging in life...
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Re: Backyard Wildlife
You guys sure do the animals & pond pics proud.
Very nice photography!!

Very nice photography!!
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Re: Backyard Wildlife
Great shot.clovishound wrote:
Blue tailed skink. A common reptile in our area.
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Re: Backyard Wildlife - On the verge of Tadpoles
Bumper to bumper traffic in the pond too? Oh man....CT_Shooter wrote:More backyard pond creatures engaging in life...
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I've tried for four years to keep a honeybee hive, but I finally gave up. Mine is what's known as a Topbar hive, one of the most natural of hive types and used worldwide; I built it myself using well established plans and materials. Each year the bees go into the winter with the hive full of honeycombs and brood and each year they're all dead in the spring. Once, they all died in late November inside of a single week. I've never taken more than a taste of their honey, leaving it for them to survive the winter. I also feed them sugar in the late fall. When I bring them to the hive in spring, they build ten to fifteen combs in just a few weeks, then begin to fill them with honey, pollen, and brood. I've read everything there is to know about caring for them, but each year more than 50% of all honeybee hives in the U.S. die. It breaks my heart that mine is among that sad statistic. Pesticides, especially systemic types that are in genetically modified crops, are a part of the problem. There are mites that can also destroy hives, but that's mostly controllable. There's nothing one can do about pesticides that end up in the pollen and honey. I may try again, but I'm leaving the hive empty for now, hoping a swarm will find it and move in.
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