Yellowjacket wasps are a menace to our honey bees. The photo above shows one of these wasps on top of a ranch bee hive. Yellowjackets will kill honey bees and raid the honey. The wasps are stronger, can sting repeatedly (worker honey bees die after they sting once and drone bees have no stinger at
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Although we cull dangerous animals (e.g., venomous snakes) to protect our kids and and visitors, under our ranch wildlife management plan, we protect and nurture many other creatures. For example, we have jackrabbits. The photo above was taken of one of our rabbits we discovered while seeding sunflowers last weekend. Because fur serves as camouflage,
As part of our wildlife management, we do things at Hokkaido Ranch to make it a safe haven for deer. Based on our census counts, there appear to be 8-10 deer that graze at our ranch at any given time. Because they hop fences without issue, they also roam over neighboring ranches too. In addition
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Part of operating our Texas honey bee ranch involves wildlife management for other animals. This includes serving as a deer sanctuary. The picture above is from one of our security cameras we use to track wildlife for their protection and census counts. We have no plans to permit deer hunting on the property. In fact,
