You can get rid of ground bees naturally without damaging the environment or your yard
Ah, summer. The time for cookouts, outside fun and, sometimes, unwanted visitors to your yard. One of these unwelcome visitors are ground bees (much like wasps, which we wrote about how to get rid of naturally a while ago).
I was out in the front yard a few weeks ago picking up some branches that came down after a rainstorm and our daughter came up and told me she had seen bees coming out of the ground. I was skeptical at first, as I had mowed the grass recently and done some other yard work and had not seen any bees. But, she took my hand and led me over to where she saw them. Lo and behold, there they were, small black and yellow bees flying out of the ground.
I wanted to get a better sense for the bees and their behavior, so I watched them a while. They were very small, only about an inch long. They were also not very aggressive towards me as I watched them, which made me think that they were not yellow jackets. However, I did not know for sure, and I had heard before that yellow jackets could nest in the ground and be docile at first and get very aggressive later in the summer. So, I started researching ground bees to determine what type they were and how I could get rid of them naturally if it made sense to.
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Lawn mower emissions are a pretty big contributor to global warming
Not many people like cutting the grass. It is hot, sweaty and laborious work that you have to do over and over again from spring into fall. However, as much as you may not like mowing your yard, the earth dislikes it even more, especially if you use a gas powered lawn mower.
Until 1995, lawn mower emissions were not regulated. This means that most gas powered lawnmowers are horribly in-efficient and polluting. Read more on Lawn Mower Emissions…
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