"Step By Step" Training
Insects
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A mosquito. The bane of your existence, except in the southern half of BC or Alberta. Then they're usually just an occasional annoyance.
A bee. There are over twenty thousand species of bees. This is good. We need bees. It is very rare for a tree planter to be stung by a bee.
This is a yellow jacket. These insects are not so friendly to tree planters.
This is a European hornet. Again, not a good insect to piss off.
This is a bald faced hornet. More like a bald faced devil. Evil.
Here's an old nest, probably made earlier in the season by wasps or hornets. Thankfully, it's now deserted.
Mountain pine beetles are quite small, so it's not easy to see clearly what they look like. However, it's possible to see the "pitch tubes" where they've burrowed into a pine tree. These holes in the tree are especially easy to find if you look for small piles of sawdust at the base of the tree.
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