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[DanielWesterfield]

Dude is pretty funny

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

Security guards have been busy all morning cleaning up shop

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

i found this one last week, THOROUGHLY enjoyed it.

Putting a little bit of science behind something i bitch about on the internet all the time


The only fruit and candy i want is SLH lol. I dont mind the sweet aromas, long as its on a bed of STOUT

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

Security guards have been busy all morning cleaning up shop

Those Praying Mantis babies have eagle eyes. That’s all the closer I could get before it hid under a fan leaf.

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

Those Praying Mantis babies have eagle eyes. That’s all the closer I could get before it hid under a fan leaf.

big ones will get comfortable with your presence quickly when they make eye contact and realize you arent threatning them too.

Theres a trick to gtting a mantis to make eye contact too, get it to lock on to your hand visually, then keep slowly moving your hand back and forth to your face, after a few tries most adult mantises will lock on to your eyes. Once they do chill with em for a few minutes, they relax and go back to hunting and shit.

You can build trust the same way with lizards. Skinks, swifts, and anoles and stuff. you can even get them to take food out of your hands. Beetles and grubs and stuff. After a bit, youll even notice individual personalities in mantises and lizards both. Some are more cautious, some are more bold and daring.

Its hard to get mantises to hang around long, but one summer as a teenager, i had a brown female that go HUGE living in moms rose bush, like 7 inches long, could feel his weight when you picked him up.

She was a bold one though, and I introduced her to something that no mantis has EVER had before, though. Big, fat, juicy, beetle grubs from under ground by the wood pile. The thing would come to the top of the rose bush fluttering its wings, reaching up into the air begging for a grub. Sometimes she would hop/fly onto my shirt.

Id sit at the wood pile aftr gathering some grubs and feed the swifts and skinks, then go feed big ole bertha in the rose bush.

Never named her at the time, but today me would def have called her Bertha or Althea one


Adult Mantises make eye contact though when ya work with em, its a little freaky

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

@cpurola @TheGoldenRoad

What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus US authorities say was smuggled in from China?

Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer.

apnews.com

Something tells me a new fusarium strain, and a single Chinese smuggler, is just the tip of the iceberg on this.

Wasn't long ago attacking a foreign powers grain production was considered a direct act of warfare. Pretty sure it still is, tbh.

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

big ones will get comfortable with your presence quickly when they make eye contact and realize you arent threatning them too.

Theres a trick to gtting a mantis to make eye contact too, get it to lock on to your hand visually, then keep slowly moving your hand back and forth to your face, after a few tries most adult mantises will lock on to your eyes. Once they do chill with em for a few minutes, they relax and go back to hunting and shit.

You can build trust the same way with lizards. Skinks, swifts, and anoles and stuff. you can even get them to take food out of your hands. Beetles and grubs and stuff. After a bit, youll even notice individual personalities in mantises and lizards both. Some are more cautious, some are more bold and daring.

Its hard to get mantises to hang around long, but one summer as a teenager, i had a brown female that go HUGE living in moms rose bush, like 7 inches long, could feel his weight when you picked him up.

She was a bold one though, and I introduced her to something that no mantis has EVER had before, though. Big, fat, juicy, beetle grubs from under ground by the wood pile. The thing would come to the top of the rose bush fluttering its wings, reaching up into the air begging for a grub. Sometimes she would hop/fly onto my shirt.

Id sit at the wood pile aftr gathering some grubs and feed the swifts and skinks, then go feed big ole bertha in the rose bush.

Never named her at the time, but today me would def have called her Bertha or Althea one


Adult Mantises make eye contact though when ya work with em, its a little freaky

I had a big one that lived in my plant a couple of years ago. It was there for a good month and used to pop out to watch me water.

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

@cpurola @TheGoldenRoad

What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus US authorities say was smuggled in from China?

Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer.

apnews.com

Something tells me a new fusarium strain, and a single Chinese smuggler, is just the tip of the iceberg on this.

That’s no bueno there. I’ll bet you’re right though. Call me crazy but some pretty gnarly stuff has made its way from China to our Mainland here in the US in recent years. Oh and let’s not forget the nice balloons they sent us.

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

That’s no bueno there. I’ll bet you’re right though. Call me crazy but some pretty gnarly stuff has made its way from China to our Mainland here in the US in recent years. Oh and let’s not forget the nice balloons they sent us.

dude a chinese cultivar of asian longhorn ticks has been spreading from the northeast since like 2016.

They reproduce asexually repeatedly, without males, as long as environmental conditions are right. (kinda has scientists scratching their head too)

in some places out here, you can find like 50 per blade of grass in the meadows. Thats not an exaggeration either. And theyre TINY, smaller then a dear tick, hold on twice as hard, and authorities say they arent carrying lime or chagas or anything yet anyway. But they have the gnarliest pussiest tick bite iv ever had. Takes literally over a month to heal.

They reproduce so fast they all stay starving, and make more the second they eat, and theyll swarm your legs, hundreds at a time if you get into a pocket of em.


Did i mention theyre fast, like an ant? No? Yea, theyre super fast too btw. not clumsy like a normal tick at all. They move quick. As small or smaller then a pinhead.

i think theyre engineered with that crispr gene splicing shit personally. By china. And released directly from container ships in our own ports. They conveniently started spreading from NY and NJ Atlantic ports. Pandemic was prob just them studying the spread of viral disease and taking notes too.

 

[Grownsince95]

This one is a "must read" for everyone hanging out here!

Cannabis is 20X more diverse than humans? I had a feeling lol

Cannabis pangenome reveals potential for medicinal and industrial use - Salk Institute for Biological Studies

LA JOLLA—Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive cannabinoid THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), historically, cannabis has been a cornerstone of human civilization, providing seed oil, textiles, and food for more than 10,000...

www.salk.edu

Domesticated cannabinoid synthases amid a wild mosaic cannabis pangenome - Nature

A pangenome of the Cannabis genus including 193 genomes demonstrates high variability in most of the genome but low diversity in cannabinoid synthesis genes and provides a resource for future genetic studies and crop optimization.

www.nature.com

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

@TheGoldenRoad

Swarms of them have killed entire groups of cows before the farmers even noticed. theyre so thick this year. Cows have literally bled to death because of all the ticks on them.

 

[MartyMcFly42oh]

Those Praying Mantis babies have eagle eyes. That’s all the closer I could get before it hid under a fan leaf.

Ohhh now I see what you mean about security guards

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

@TheGoldenRoad

Swarms of them have killed entire groups of cows before the farmers even noticed. theyre so thick this year. Cows have literally bled to death because of all the ticks on them.

That’s horrible.

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

That’s horrible.

I’ll have to find the story but I was reading how wolves have migrated back into our mountain range and make it a little closer to here each year. They haven’t been in these mountains forever but now they’re returning.

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

I’ll have to find the story but I was reading how wolves have migrated back into our mountain range and make it a little closer to here each year. They haven’t been in these mountains forever but now they’re returning.

at least thats a debatable topic on good or bad as a big picture kinda thing.

im pretty sure cow killing tick swarms are bad in any context


You have me wondering now... Would i rather be torn apart quickly by a pack of wolves? Or covered in so many swarming ticks that hold on so hard, i cant do anything about it and bleed to death

Jesus, thats a pretty damn intense "would you rather" Might as well throw bull shark attack into the mix while im at it since one of those got found so far up the mississippi it coulda got into the great lakes no prob if there werent carp dams


OOOOOOOo, i got another one. Asian murder hornet swarm!

(seriously tho, when i go work in the yard i keep a fixed blade hunting knife to scrape them off my legs, i cant grab em lol. I have so many tick scabs i look like a needle jocky. If these things start taking on spotted fever, lots of people are gonna get super fucked up fast including me)

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

at least thats a debatable topic on good or bad as a big picture kinda thing.

im pretty sure cow killing tick swarms are bad in any context


You have me wondering now... Would i rather be torn apart quickly by a pack of wolves? Or covered in so many swarming ticks that hold on so hard, i cant do anything about it and bleed to death

Jesus, thats a pretty damn intense "would you rather" Might as well throw bull shark attack into the mix while im at it since one of those got found so far up the mississippi it coulda got into the great lakes no prob if there werent carp dams


OOOOOOOo, i got another one. Asian murder hornet swarm!

(seriously tho, when i go work in the yard i keep a fixed blade hunting knife to scrape them off my legs, i cant grab em lol. I have so many tick scabs i look like a needle jocky. If these things start taking on spotted fever, lots of people are gonna get super fucked up fast)

How about being trapped in the “Boo!” box.

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

at least thats a debatable topic on good or bad as a big picture kinda thing.

im pretty sure cow killing tick swarms are bad in any context


You have me wondering now... Would i rather be torn apart quickly by a pack of wolves? Or covered in so many swarming ticks that hold on so hard, i cant do anything about it and bleed to death

Jesus, thats a pretty damn intense "would you rather" Might as well throw bull shark attack into the mix while im at it since one of those got found so far up the mississippi it coulda got into the great lakes no prob if there werent carp dams


OOOOOOOo, i got another one. Asian murder hornet swarm!

(seriously tho, when i go work in the yard i keep a fixed blade hunting knife to scrape them off my legs, i cant grab em lol. I have so many tick scabs i look like a needle jocky. If these things start taking on spotted fever, lots of people are gonna get super fucked up fast including me)

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

at least thats a debatable topic on good or bad as a big picture kinda thing.

im pretty sure cow killing tick swarms are bad in any context


You have me wondering now... Would i rather be torn apart quickly by a pack of wolves? Or covered in so many swarming ticks that hold on so hard, i cant do anything about it and bleed to death

Jesus, thats a pretty damn intense "would you rather" Might as well throw bull shark attack into the mix while im at it since one of those got found so far up the mississippi it coulda got into the great lakes no prob if there werent carp dams


OOOOOOOo, i got another one. Asian murder hornet swarm!

(seriously tho, when i go work in the yard i keep a fixed blade hunting knife to scrape them off my legs, i cant grab em lol. I have so many tick scabs i look like a needle jocky. If these things start taking on spotted fever, lots of people are gonna get super fucked up fast including me)

After I googled “Asian Murder Hornet” I’m glad I skipped out on anywhere in Asian during my wanderlust days. Those things are what nightmares are made of. At least honey badgers don’t have wings

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

After I googled “Asian Murder Hornet” I’m glad I skipped out on anywhere in Asian during my wanderlust days. Those things are what nightmares are made of. At least honey badgers don’t have wings

Dude those are invasive in the Pacific Northwest now. That's why I referenced them.

Sorry to spill the beans on it. Good luck with that btw. Hope you're not too far into NorCal

We got the European giant murder hornets invasive out here, they're just as gnarly and the sting as just as bad, and honestly they look even angrier because their heads are red, but they don't swarm up like the Asian ones.

I got one in the freezer hold on lol

 

[Thatoneguyyouknow_]

Dude those are invasive in the Pacific Northwest now. That's why I referenced them.

Sorry to spill the beans on it. Good luck with that btw. Hope you're not too far into NorCal

We got the European giant murder hornets invasive out here, they're just as gnarly and the sting as just as bad, and honestly they look even angrier because their heads are red, but they don't swarm up like the Asian ones.

I got one in the freezer hold on lol

Nvm, Mom must've thrown it away over the winter. I dropped it here last summer and DNR was supposed to come get it but they never did lol