Carpenter bees
As well as several kinds of wasps, we also have Carpenter bees which unfortunately are not so harmless, the females burrow into wood and will also sting to protect their …
Wasps on the house
Now that it’s summer the insect population has really sky rocketed, we painted the whole house with burned oil which seems to have deterred the worst problem insects such as …
Vagalumes & Pyrophorus beetles
Vagalumes are a kind of firefly that make a green light at night, sometimes stable and sometimes flashing. There’s a lot of them at this time of year and they …
Week fifty one
Tomorrow is 11/11/2013, our two year anniversary here in Brazil! we’re going in to Canela the next day to celebrate (there’s no buses on Monday so we have to wait …
Week fifty
This week Beth went to Porto Alegre and I stayed at the land by myself. She went to do a course at the Buddhist centre there and I would have …
Week forty eight
On Tuesday we went back yet again to Canela and this time had to get everything out of the flat no matter what because it’s the last day of our …
Week thirty eight
This was another quiet week – our third consecutive week at the land, which is the longest we’ve stayed here so far. There’s not many animals or insects around to …
Week thirty one
This has probably been the most frustrating week we’ve had so far. On the day we were going to come back to the land the car had a flat tyre, …
Week twenty eight
This week started at the land instead of back in Canela – that’s because in the weekend we took the completed solar panels to the land and have successfully installed …