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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: It balks be Bang on twenty nine let's call it

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Speaker 2: eight thirty and is really good morning, sir.

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Speaker 3: A very good morning, creet. It is already half past goodness.

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Speaker 2: On the knocker today on the money, I know. And

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Speaker 2: thank you again for taking the time out yesterday to

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Speaker 2: reply to our five year old entomologist who was very

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Speaker 2: excited to discover what was it a too spiked as spider?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the two spines spider because it has these funny

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Speaker 3: little twitter spines on the back of its its body.

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Speaker 2: And little creature.

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Speaker 3: I have to say, it's unbelievably beautiful. That is a

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Speaker 3: beautiful one. And at the moment it's got these lovely

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Speaker 3: websites which are very very nicely organized and put together,

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Speaker 3: and they're quite common in the North Island. We don't

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Speaker 3: see them much in this for the South, but yeah, no,

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Speaker 3: I love them. And you know what, it was really

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Speaker 3: funny when we discovered this thing in the seventies or eighties.

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Speaker 3: They looked just like literally spiders with Madonna's bra on

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Speaker 3: their you know what I mean. It looks like. So

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Speaker 3: that's what I that's sort of how I described it.

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Speaker 3: And guess what the what do you call that? The

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Speaker 3: artificial intelligence? Now call it the Madonna's right because they

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Speaker 3: have the dumb bugger called the anyway, I can't stand it.

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Speaker 2: Actually, just talking about that. You can use eye naturalists

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Speaker 2: to identify bugs as well, or just.

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Speaker 3: Plants, spiders, plants, everything, droppings, tracks, skulls, bones, all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Everything fantastic.

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Speaker 3: It's really an amazing material. The game.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for taking time out, and the go was absolutely delighted.

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Speaker 4: Radio.

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Speaker 2: Let's get amongst the calls. Cody, good morning.

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Speaker 5: Hi, good morning, good morning. If I use a fertilizer

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Speaker 5: containing itrogen, phosphorus and potassium, I don't agent using blood

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Speaker 5: and bone as well.

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Speaker 3: You could if you want, because blood and bone basically

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Speaker 3: is a fertilizer which is a bit minimal in terms

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Speaker 3: of what it has in terms there's only a couple

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Speaker 3: of things in that stuff, but it also uses You

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Speaker 3: can use that to change the what do you call it? Uh,

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Speaker 3: the fertilizers and the yes, the pH that's it. That's

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Speaker 3: the word I was looking for, the pH. But generally speaking, yes,

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Speaker 3: you can absolutely so if you if you need as.

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Speaker 5: Say that again, sorry, sorry, drafted and huge in board

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Speaker 5: one containing nightagen, phosphorus and potassium as well as blood

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Speaker 3: Yes you can because the blood and bone will give

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Speaker 3: you the different material that you use for the pH

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Speaker 3: So if you need a PHDT lower or a bit higher,

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Speaker 3: you can use that. Yeah, brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for that, Cody, appreciate that. Bruce,

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Speaker 2: good morning.

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Speaker 6: Good morning to you. Rude, Hi, hello, good morning. I

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Speaker 6: remember you and Julie from the Old City Nine Steps

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Speaker 6: Cafe and took the Reggie way back.

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Speaker 3: That is amazing. Gosh, there's some time ago.

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Speaker 6: The early nineties.

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Speaker 7: Roots.

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Speaker 6: I've known you a long time and I listened to

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Speaker 6: your show and what more often than not every Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Have you got? Have you nothing better to do with

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Speaker 3: your time?

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Speaker 6: I enjoy your accident ruthe.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you mate, it's good to hear you now.

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Speaker 6: Rude. I've got I live on the Muharing East Peninsula

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Speaker 6: out of walk with Yeah. Bookas are really good here,

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Speaker 6: the lovely big green, glossy leaves and you've got to

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Speaker 6: cut them back hard at once or even twice a year.

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Speaker 6: They drop the leaves a lot, but I don't mind that.

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Speaker 6: But I've got one which has got has gone yellow,

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Speaker 6: and it looks as that's dying as a Really it's

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Speaker 6: Friday of a thinking a picture is worth a thousand words.

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Speaker 6: But you know it's got it's gone weak and horrible

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Speaker 6: and like like yellow team h what do you think?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. The irony is that Julie got herself,

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Speaker 3: the same Julie that you just described got. He got

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Speaker 3: a book a tree literally not that long ago, like

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Speaker 3: the moment putting it in a pot and it's doing

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Speaker 3: quite well. But if you get a yellow wing, I

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Speaker 3: am not undred percent sure what causes that. It depends

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Speaker 3: if it Sometimes it means that its roots don't get

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Speaker 3: enough fertilizer, that it is to asset, or that it

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Speaker 6: No, it's amongst a whole lot. In fact, there's one

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Speaker 6: There are big trees three four meters high, and I

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Speaker 6: cut them back and they thrive really really well. But

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Speaker 6: this one I even put some nitro phosphorus fosca around im,

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Speaker 6: thinking it may need some more nitrogen or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know.

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Speaker 6: I mean it looks like I need to cut it back.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I've talked with you to you for

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Speaker 3: fifty years about these things, nitro fosca, blue and all that.

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Speaker 3: I love it. That's great, Okay, So these are the things.

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Speaker 3: These are usually stress signals if you like, there could

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Speaker 3: be a root rot, because they do if you if

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Speaker 3: you give them, for instance, two too much water, you

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Speaker 3: can get some root rots on these trees. Actually, so

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Speaker 3: that's number one. You could have drought and frost and

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Speaker 3: not an auckland of course, but that sort of stuff

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Speaker 3: I don't know's it's a whole lot of different thing.

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Speaker 3: Normally a pooka would shed its yellow leaves.

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Speaker 6: Yes, well, I've left it rude, thinking maybe I just

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Speaker 6: leave it shed and see and looking for signs of

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Speaker 6: you know, coming back again with new shoots, because they

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Speaker 6: shoot from just the stems. Cut step, that's right, you

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Speaker 6: have to do. So I've given a bit of an

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to cut it back because it yet

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Speaker 6: look looks sick.

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Speaker 3: You know, we don't want to Bruce Bruce if every

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Speaker 3: if it doesn't work. And that is an important thing.

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Speaker 3: Remember I said, if it's too much watered, you quite

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Speaker 3: often get a root rot called fightoftra in the system.

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Speaker 3: If you ever get that, get red of the damn

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Speaker 3: thing and don't plant anything in the same spot, not another,

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Speaker 3: because that particular fight aftra could be the one that

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Speaker 3: causes the trouble of your poker.

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Speaker 6: All right, do you say that fight opra.

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Speaker 8: Fight aftra pH r pH y h yeah t O

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Speaker 6: Oh fantastic. I've lived so much from you over the years.

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Speaker 2: Route we both had Bruce the feelings mutual mate No.

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Speaker 2: Eighty ten eighty the number called Tony, good morning.

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Speaker 7: Good morning, can speak to very close.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just hanging. He's just handed me the telephone

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Speaker 3: from Auckland.

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Speaker 7: I thank you, thank you very much. I've got some

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Speaker 7: chrystalers or some little thing looks like a something's crawl

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Speaker 7: three scene two, the three scene the meters long and

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Speaker 7: it's it's a mahogany brown and I don't know whether

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Speaker 7: it's been blown out of a tree or something that

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Speaker 7: I just don't want care the pillars or something in

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Speaker 3: So why not they w No, they were well before

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Speaker 3: you they were there. Yeah, so they're caterpillars, you think

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Speaker 7: Well, they look like crystalists, you know.

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Speaker 3: Do they move? Do they move?

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Speaker 7: No? No, No, they just just lying on the top

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Look, it could be indeed a chrystalist.

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Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just making sure that we talk about

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Speaker 3: the same thing. Uh, And it could probably be something

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Speaker 3: that could be if you like, the crystals off something

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Speaker 3: like a beetle, you know, like a grasscrub beetle or

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Speaker 3: something like that. If that's the case, what do you

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Speaker 3: think you should be doing? Do you think they do

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Speaker 3: any damage to you?

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Speaker 7: Well, my previous property we had problem with grass grubby.

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Speaker 7: Just this made the whole lawn.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's it, isn't it.

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Speaker 7: I haven't seen these things before. We're just sort of

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Speaker 7: moved into a new property. Side. I don't know whether

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Speaker 7: they've blown out of a tree, or we've got some

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Speaker 7: olive trees around the around the perimeter.

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Speaker 3: So I got you, Tony. We we just spoke about

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Speaker 3: eye Naturalist, which is something you put on your app

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Speaker 3: on your phone and if you you learned within a

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Speaker 3: couple of minutes how that works. Take a photo, put

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Speaker 3: it on a nice sharp photo close by, like a

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Speaker 3: close up almost. If you can check it on I

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Speaker 3: naturalist and you will get exactly what it is. Then

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Speaker 3: you can go online and find out what it does,

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Speaker 3: and then whether or not you should take you know,

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Speaker 3: some action for this or not. High naturalist one word.

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Speaker 9: Check it out.

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Speaker 2: It is a tremendous resource for young entomologists and others.

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Speaker 3: And older ones and older ones as well.

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Speaker 2: We might take short break now, I think, yeah, let's now,

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Speaker 2: we'll take the break. We'll come back with John in

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Speaker 2: just a moment. Your news talks. It'd be got to

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Speaker 2: climb past with us and John.

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Speaker 10: A very good morning, Good morning to you guys. I'd

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Speaker 10: like to test Crew Rude some memory about insects. Yesterday

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Speaker 10: I found one. The borax in the head was like

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Speaker 10: a very small bumblebee, but the body was quite big

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Speaker 10: and it was shiny black. I wonder what it is.

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Speaker 3: Like a bumblebee? Is it the size of a bumblebee

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Speaker 10: H like a very small one? Yes, oh he is,

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Speaker 10: And yeah I've had various sizes bumblebees coming out of five,

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Speaker 10: but no, that X in the head was like a

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Speaker 10: small bumblebee. Body was shiny and black and quite big.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, tell me is it is it? Does it

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Speaker 3: live near the soil on the ground or was it

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Speaker 10: I don't know. I found it in one of our

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Speaker 10: flowers and I thought, gee, that looks strange, so I

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Speaker 10: grabbed and popped it in and examined it. But it

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Speaker 10: doesn't appear to have had a sting sticking out the back.

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Speaker 10: But it was hard to say.

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Speaker 3: Now you're you're very good at your observations, think you.

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Speaker 3: I think you have finding. They're one of our native

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Speaker 3: species of bee. Native bees we've got. We've got twenty

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Speaker 3: eight different species of native bee, very varying from the

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Speaker 3: size of a bee or a small bumble bee. Actually,

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Speaker 3: but be is probably the largest ones you get, and

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Speaker 3: native bee so only in New Zealand, right, native bee

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Speaker 3: and the smallest ones are probably in centimeter and a sorry,

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Speaker 3: a millimeter and a half in length, a very very

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Speaker 3: tiny one.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, so seeing those.

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Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, and so am I. And we have heaps

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Speaker 3: of them here, and they live in soil. They make

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Speaker 3: these little holes in the soil, and those holes quite

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Speaker 3: often have countersink entrances. Do you know what that means?

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Speaker 4: A counter See?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got builders know that, I mean, pet the

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Speaker 3: counters exist.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, another quick one, rude, How do I get rid

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Speaker 2: very good morning, welcome.

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Speaker 9: Yes, good morning to you. Morning rude. Hi my, I've

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Speaker 2: And doesn't that sound like some perfect French recipe?

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Speaker 3: Do you know what time it is? Caroline? Do you

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Speaker 9: So clearly in the morning exactly? I thought you might

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Speaker 3: Yeah it is?

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Speaker 2: Fantastic.

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Speaker 9: I just thought that the French solution was worth sharing.

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Speaker 2: And look, if you're troubled by them, you won't be

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Speaker 3: No, I still think that they're holding it from what

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Speaker 3: Good morning going.

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Speaker 4: I got such a problem here with my moss. I've

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Speaker 4: So in November we emptied the wardrobe. I washed everything

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Speaker 4: I could possibly wash. You drive plane. We painted completely

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Speaker 4: And we had new carpets go down. I've got feedballs

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Speaker 4: I'm still inundated with them.

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Speaker 4: And I find them dead? But I'm finding my clothing

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Speaker 4: It is I've had that too.

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Speaker 3: Have you had safe works material?

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Speaker 4: Once I cleared it all out, I haven't used it.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, look, anything that I wear I washed

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Speaker 4: And this it's a woman, judy. If it's not next

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Speaker 3: But I mean, you know, no, but it's it's not

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Speaker 3: If you like that, you can get many places and

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Speaker 3: a couple of sprays, you know, about say a week

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Speaker 3: still the very best way to go, to be quite honest, Julie,

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Speaker 3: and I haven't seen one of those particular moths that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's I wasn't going to say anything about

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Speaker 2: Good luck with that all the very best. Indeed, there

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Speaker 2: it less attractive to moths. Is there any scientific evidence

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Speaker 3: I'm going to look that up because I don't know.

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Speaker 3: And cedar, of course is a timber, as you well

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Speaker 2: It's one of those things if you look at like

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Speaker 2: of cases, I've done storage for clothing and I've made

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Speaker 2: the shelving out of cedar, slats out of cedar, and

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Speaker 2: coming to you as a proper scientist. Now we've both

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Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, I bet, I bet it is.

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Speaker 2: Talk again next Sunday. You're all the best. Thank you, buddy,

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Speaker 2: Red Climb Past will be back next Sunday. I'll be

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Speaker 2: back next Sunday. Have a great week, look after yourselves

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