The animal friend in today’s photo is a pretty moth I met on the same porch my bird friend hangs out on. The moth was willing to let me take some up close photos which is great since there is a lot of detail on it’s body. My report on yesterday was so-so, the bees are doing well though the photos I took were blurry. They seem to have moved onto collecting pollen for food as the their combs have a yellow tint to them and they’ve started laying. They’re still building their own combs perpendicular to the ones I provided, I moved some frames so they’re at least building into the frames from both sides. They also hadn’t eaten all of their sugar water over the last week which leads me to believe they’re getting pollen on their own. In the coming weeks I’ll watch their consumption of the sugar water to see if I want to pull it until Winter when they’ll need supplementation again. A good deal of mowing got done yesterday, though not as much as I would like, I was clearing the tall grass next to a tree and got stuck on a small stump. After I got free my mower blades stopped spinning and either that had knocked the belt off or damaged it enough to come loose. I’ll put a new belt on when I can since there’s no point to putting a damaged one on and today I’ll look at the pullies under the mower to check for damage. I keep saying to myself this is why you finish the grass that needs to be done before doing anything risky. The tree wasn’t obviously risky, but I could have waited until the end to go around them. Live and learn.
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