Thanks so much for your responses. I too have the fear of something happening to her if we released her. But I should extrapolate on the "wild" we'd be releasing her to. It's a large, beautiful pond at a local University, & the ducks that are already there are pretty much tame/domesticated ducks. Seasononally, a few wild ducks stop by, but for the most part it's the same group. There are always lots of people around, the ducks are fed corn in the winter & LOTS of bread by visitors all year long! Not a bad deal! :) I am just afraid we're being unfair to her by keeping her by herself in our yard, but I definitely understand the risks of releasing. The best option would be to get her a friend, but my husband has nixed that idea! Thanks again! Jennifer

How can something that occurs naturally "screw up the ecosystem"? All you are doing is concentrating the release to a specific area. And you should not feel concerned - trichogrammas fortunately target only what we consider "bad guys" - no 'monster spawn' and no killing of 'gorgeous bugs', unless you think critters like armyworms, bagworm, cutworm, corn earworms, wax moths, tomato hornworms, cabbage loopers, and codling moths are gorgeous :-))

The video concentrates on the walls and not the ceiling, which is unfortunate. It's hard for me to pick out the joists versus the blocking with most covered by the furring strips. But the wall you want to take down, it didn't appear that the top plate ran all the way across the ceiling, from left-to-right. It just went from the left side of the wall to the still-standing doubled up stud with the outlet on it. I'm referring to 1:40 into the video. Based on the location of the room and the framing structure you showed? Tear it down.

Well, so far our bear hasn't been back to our front portal. And, yes, it doesn't seem to be the least bit concerned about being found out by us. DYH: Last year, the one that visited us almost nightly tried to eat my ceramic Talavara pottery duck that sat on my coffee table out there, and broke it's neck. No furniture damamaged though, thank goodness! Lobby: OMG, a bear got into your kitchen?!?!? Now that's scary! And messy! I can imagine the slobber it left behind! Our bears like to drink out of our birdbaths (one in front and one in the back). I can always tell when they've been here because the birdbaths contain nothing but slobber in the morning. Mtn: I like the Ring Doorbell a lot. It wasn't the easiest thing to install, but once in, it's been nice when I'm running errands and get a notification that someone is at my door. But, there are a couple of things I'm not crazy about. The field of vision is programmable and I had to initially narrow mine significantly, as it was notifying me every time a breeze rustled my potted plants outside the door. Or, when a larger bird, such as a dove or pinon jay would land nearby. But, once I found the 2 bears in my back yard several weeks ago, though, I opened the range of vision back up, but silenced it from verbally notifying me of any movement. Not the best idea, either. I'm now setting it to verbally announce any person, but not any movement. Oly, I'm not sure that anything would deter bears from wandering up here, except eliminating all food and water. We're now religiously taking in the bird feeders every night at dusk, and putting them back out after 8AM. But, we're huge bird lovers and lso enjoy being able have food and water for the many species that frequent our house and property. Tina: those plants are Karl Foerster Calamagrostis or Feather Reed Grass, an tall ornamental grass that can be grown in many areas of the country. It's not rabbit resistant, though, and foraging rabbits may eat smaller plantings. Justerrilynn: OMG, that newborn cub is adorable, but it sure doesn't look like a bear at that age!