Showing posts with label feeding chickens bugs with lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feeding chickens bugs with lights. Show all posts
Monday, April 11, 2011
And then there were none
You do get a connection with nature living out here in the middle of the woods. Often it seems it is a connection I could live without involving massive swarms of bugs. During the time I lived in Las Vegas I never truly appreciated the absence of little critters. For the last three nights we been swarmed by Junebugs. If a light was on to close to a window they would thump on the window like zombies trying break into the house and driving at night sounds like a hail storm as the fly towards the headlights and meet their fate on the grill of my truck. Last night I accidentally flicked on the back porch lights when I turned on the lights in the kitchen and they exploded into a frenzy. I sat their and watched the swarm just engulf the back porch. This morning I swept up piles of them and feed them to the hungry chickens, but tonight nothing. I clicked on the lights out back and nothing. Not a even a couple little remaining clicks. If it happens again I am going to put a light inside the chicken tractor and turn it on after dark and let the chickens feast. I don't know if the little solar pathway light attract the Junebugs or not, but I will have to see.
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