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Insect Note 109
... a means of hanging the block. Face nesting blocks as close to the southeast direction as ... nesting period. The mud should not be highly organic or sandy. Clay soils work well. Do not move the blocks during the weeks of active nesting. Once all nesting activity has stopped, the nesting ... purchased commercially. You can be creative with your nesting blocks. Blocks can be made from any shape wood. ...
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NCSU: ENT/ORT-114 Miner Bees
... enhance miner bee populations by providing dried mud blocks for nesting. Biology Miner bees are found across most ... may be enticed to nest in man-made nesting blocks. One method of nest block construction is to ... nesting blocks into unheated shelters (like sheds or garages) after activity has stopped until next spring to avoid high parasitizion and predation. Useful reading: Norden, B.B. 1984. Nesting ...
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Control of Roof Rats in Fruit Trees
... to reach food and water and to enter buildings. They prefer nesting above the ground in attics, soffits, piles of debris, hollow trees ... station ( Figure 6 ) . Figure 6 . The practice of wiring poison bait blocks to branches of trees is illegal and has caused thousands ... ). Figure 7 . In Florida, due to our high humidity, parafinized bait blocks or pellets should be used in any outdoor bait stations. ...
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... The Cover varies with the animal. Bushes, trees, boulders, logs, snags, form places that provide nesting sites, food, and hiding places for the birds and other small wildlife. Large rocks make ... no native plant community in place. We have thousands of frogs in the nursery; whole blocks in town have not one frog. Why? We do not think it is a chemical ...
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Larix occidentalis Nutt
... needed for a wide variety of birds and animals. Hole-nesting birds comprise about one-fourth of the bird species in ... W. L. Fischer, and C. H. Halvorson. 1979. Habitat management for hole-nesting birds in forests of western larch and Douglas-fir. ... . Shearer, Raymond C. 1959. Western larch seed dispersal over clear-cut blocks in northwestern Montana. Montana Academy of Science, Proceedings 19:130-134. ...
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Prunus pensylvanica L
... all of the overstory, respectively. In New England, more pin cherry seedlings germinated from soil blocks taken from 38- and 95-yearold stands than from 5- or 200-year-old stands ... is undesirable for good deer nutrition. Except in dense thickets, pin cherry provides only fair nesting cover and materials for birds. Beavers cut pin cherry and may completely remove small stands ...
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Sycamore
... also consume the fruits and white-tailed deer occasionally browse on the vegetation. Many cavity-nesting birds, such as owls, flycatchers, and chimney swifts, inhabit the nearly hollow trunks of older ... , but not very strong. It is used to make boxes, crates, yokes, furniture, butcher's blocks, and woodenware. Baskets may also be fashioned from the bark or thin strips of wood ...
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Frequently asked questions
... points. What do I do ? A. The white material is produced by female mealy bugs nesting up to produce young. See Mealy Bugs for information and control measures. Q. Why is ... and packing the gap with grit or pebbles. It is also possible to cast concrete blocks with a pot-sized hole in them as supports. Q. My very tall cactus fell ...
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Australian Acacias in the Garden
... Front Feature Garden With the end of the traditional front fence on many Queensland suburban blocks has come the small feature garden. Sometimes it is oval in shape, sometimes it is ... yellow ball flowers during the latter part of the year. It also provides a protected nesting place for birds. Top Erosion Control Erosion is a problem mainly of large gardens and ...
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digs, dwellings, and dens - wild about gardening - CWF
... , it is nesting sites that are often in short supply. Providing homes for our native bees will be greatly appreciated. Obtain several 8 cm to 13 cm-thick blocks of wood (scrap lumber is fine). Drill holes about 90 per cent of the way into the blocks, 3 to 8 mm in diameter, and spaced 1 to 2 cm apart. Hang your ...
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