Warren and Jayce spent several evenings this winter building 32 boxes to entice the swallows to stay around. The pond creates lots of mosquitoes and we are trying some healthy methods for controlling their population.
This is about half of the boxes. Warren brought home some old fence from the job to build them with so their only cost was the time to make them.
We put them in a few of the trees and all the barns got at least 2 and the huge pole barn got eight or ten.
Our other big excitement was the two hives of bees we got the end of April. We didn't have as much excitement as the airport did when they opened the cargo hold on the plane and discovered several of the bee boxes had broken open during the flight. The bees then proceeded to ride the luggage into the airport and make quite a disturbance. By the time we got the bees they were pretty calm. Warren dug through our hunting and fishing stuff and managed to find enough protective gear, clamming gloves work great.
Jayce helped install them with his coat open and short work gloves. While he was holding the queen box, a few crawled up his coat sleeve but they didn't sting at all. They are the calmest bees I've ever seen.
They seem to be doing well and on sunny day the hives buzz with activity. I love living on the Ranch.
This is about half of the boxes. Warren brought home some old fence from the job to build them with so their only cost was the time to make them.
We put them in a few of the trees and all the barns got at least 2 and the huge pole barn got eight or ten.
Our other big excitement was the two hives of bees we got the end of April. We didn't have as much excitement as the airport did when they opened the cargo hold on the plane and discovered several of the bee boxes had broken open during the flight. The bees then proceeded to ride the luggage into the airport and make quite a disturbance. By the time we got the bees they were pretty calm. Warren dug through our hunting and fishing stuff and managed to find enough protective gear, clamming gloves work great. 
Jayce helped install them with his coat open and short work gloves. While he was holding the queen box, a few crawled up his coat sleeve but they didn't sting at all. They are the calmest bees I've ever seen.
They seem to be doing well and on sunny day the hives buzz with activity. I love living on the Ranch.
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