Naturalist Notebook

20180330 sighted first bee of season at NE corner of house 20170716 Purchased carpenter bee trap at County Farm & Home ~ $20. Left on back deck. 20160407 Pest Inspection

This post was made to the Chatham County Chatlist after a slow back and forth between a number of posters made assertions about the historical numbers of deer and forest in NC. 2017-07-03 A chatlist participant added a link to the 2017 Tick Forum in C...

A friend of mine asked me to look at some bees in his yard. I never saw anything like them before. I attached a picture, hopefully you can see the bee in the bottom right. They are not honeybees or Yellowjackets. There were hundreds of these bees f...