I dragged the shutter on my drone and moved at the same speed as the water to give the water that motion. It took a ton of attempts to actually get one that had the look I was hoping to get.
We need to make sure @FreddyLA7 doesn’t make it to the West Coast. It would be a shame if his last memory of America was as the land of free needles and sidewalk defecation!!
I’m curious who lives in a walkable neighborhood: If someone offered you $1 million and all you had to do was walk out your door, purchase a pack of M&Ms, and make it back home within twenty minutes, all without the use of a car, how many of you would make the money?
There's an invasive tree growing across America, and it's rolling out the welcome mat for the worst new bug on the continent.
It's called tree of heaven, and the name is a lie. It came over from China in the 1780s, and now it's everywhere: fast, scrappy, growing up through pavement, poisoning the soil around it so natives can't compete. One female makes over 300,000 winged seeds a year. Crush a leaf and it smells like rancid peanut butter.
And it's the favorite food of the spotted lanternfly, the invasive planthopper now chewing through grapes, orchards, and hardwoods across the East. An invading tree, feeding an invading bug. Kill the tree, starve the bug.
Here's the part that trips everyone up. Do not just cut it down. Cutting it, even cutting and painting the stump, makes it panic and shoot up dozens of root suckers. One tree becomes a thicket.
The move that works: treat the standing tree. Hack a ring of cuts into the bark and apply triclopyr in late summer, and it carries the poison down into its own roots.
Never advice I love to give, but it's the best way to end this invasion, one tree at a time.
A yellowjacket in June is a fairly docile pest controller. A yellowjacket in late August wants to fight you for a soda. Same insect, but the colony has changed.
All summer, the workers hunt protein. Caterpillars, flies, and other garden pests get chewed up and fed to the larvae back in the nest. In return, the larvae provide the adults with a sugary secretion that fuels the workers.
So all season those workers are out killing the bugs eating your tomatoes because that's how they feed the babies that feed them. A single colony removes thousands of pest insects.
Then late summer arrives. The colony reaches peak population. The queen shifts from producing mostly workers to producing males and next year's queens. Fewer larvae remain, and as those larvae pupate, the workers lose much of their built-in sugar supply.
Now you have a huge population of aging wasps searching for carbs wherever they can find them. Fallen fruit, hummingbird feeders, your picnic, your soda, anything sweet. They're not suddenly mean. They're just hungry, unemployed, and nearing the end of their lives.
You'd be itching to fight for a piece of candy too.
By winter, the old queen, workers, and males are dead. Only newly mated queens survive to start fresh colonies the following spring, and old nests are almost never reused.
A nest tucked away in a field corner or high in a tree is doing free pest control for a few more weeks, then it's gone.
The nests worth dealing with are the ones in doorways, walls, or places where people, especially anyone with a severe allergy, could be at risk.
fanfic authors, if you ever feel bad about not doing enough research for a fic, i'd like to remind you that j*hn b*yne was so committed to historical accuracy that he googled a recipe for red dye and copied the first result into his book, and never realized it was from zelda breath of the wild 🤣
We don’t know or plan to find out what we having. But I need boy name ideas.
We do not like common or weird, must have a strong meaning. If it’s a last name that can be a first name we love that.
Our current boys are: Casten, Knox & Ryle
I’m over here fighting yall to not kill sick babies and accept women exist being gaslit by people who won’t say the word retard for fear of offending the same person they’d kill with surgical clamps for a $100 copay.
Half the people sneering at the existence of disabled children with medical needs have a “hate has no home here” sign in their yard. Half the people fighting for a woman’s right to choose don’t even believe women exist as a distinct objective reality. Frauds.