There was less snow so less standing water for them to multiply.
So yeaaa less mosquitoes here too.
But we get black flies to take their place.
They take a chunk of meat buggers!
I'm glad your feeling better today.
Bill
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So yeaaa less mosquitoes here too.
But we get black flies to take their place.
They take a chunk of meat buggers!
I'm glad your feeling better today.
Bill
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Oh god, there's a river here called the Au Sable...great for multi-day canoeing/camping but some of the campsites along it have terrible blackfly swarms. I took my daughter on a three day trip when she was 6 or 7 and I had never encountered blackflies before. We got torn up so badly at one of the sites. Literal chunks of flesh. Horrific little fuckers.
Where I am at in Macomb County we hardly get any mosquitoes even with a wet spring. This was the first spring since our first one in 2013 where the yard did not have several inches of standing water. The dry weather started last summer and went into the fall. I was looking at the Willow tree and it is showing signs of stress from the dry soil.
Hardly any Black Flies or Horse Flies or whatever they are called around here either but those things are nasty when out on a boat on Lake St. Clair or Lake Erie. Not much of a problem on the Detroit River so maybe it is the faster moving water.
Several years ago I had some of my plants in with another grower's plants. That was up in St. Clair County and the humidity up there was miserable, just miserable, and the Mosquitoes were even worse.
Oh, we get Fish Flies around here by the end of May or beginning of June. They do not bite, actually they have no mouth and they might want to scream (Just a play on the name of a famous short story. Famous in some reading group or another, anyway. A story called "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream".)
Fish Flies anywhere in the state but down here because of Lake St. Clair they are as thick as light fog some nights. The hatch can be big enough that it shows up on weather radar.
Fish Flies anywhere in the state but down here because of Lake St. Clair they are as thick as light fog some nights. The hatch can be big enough that it shows up on weather radar.
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You mean mayflies? Those are hefty buggos...no fun to bike through but harmless
So all of the winter moisture we're missing just dumped. From the east. Horizontally.
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so cute!
Pointy end down
don't forget to poke drainage holes, Copper
Glad you're back to good girlfriend.
My country has been slow rolling out the vaccine. I think I'm due my second shot this month.
I know I've said it before, and I'm saying it again, I love your life!
My country has been slow rolling out the vaccine. I think I'm due my second shot this month.
I know I've said it before, and I'm saying it again, I love your life!
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The skeeter population will catch up unless you have a dry summer. We get mosquitos in the desert but very few. I don't miss em.
Yes, they are a member of the Mayfly family of insects; related to the same ones that hatch in the Au Sable and other rivers throughout the state.You mean mayflies? Those are hefty buggos...no fun to bike through but harmless
They are attracted to lights. On some nights it is a huge hatch and with a mild breeze it might blow them on-shore and they end up flying around a street light or a lit up gas station until they run out of energy and fall to the ground. People try sweeping them up or using hoses to wash them into the sewer. On a really, really bad hatch I have seen store owners using snow shovels and occasionally heard reports of local cities along the lake putting a snow plow back into operation for the day.
I used to have an large Oscar in an aquarium and I would catch Fish Flies and put them in the tank. The Oscar slurped them up.
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Wait you're a nurse, right? >.> Shouldn't....you be...Glad you're back to good girlfriend.
My country has been slow rolling out the vaccine. I think I'm due my second shot this month.
I know I've said it before, and I'm saying it again, I love your life!
Holy fuck, humans...
also my life is like a carnival: lots of fun for the public...whole lot of work and filth behind the scenes. Weird carnies, too
@SmokingWings <3 Oscars. My mom raised tigers for the longest time. Badass beasts.
@Mdlroad hush! Naysayer! cries internally
So I want to thank 420. I replied to RQS on social media regarding a post that simply said 'What's wrong with this plant?' and apparently my answer was good because they replied at length and a bunch of people followed me >.> Now I've got randos asking me questions and I really don't know anything, tho. Oops.
Y'all taught me shit. Thank you <3
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I think the rain yesterday and the cooldown helped my girls a bit:
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I believe you're right. Looking goodI think the rain yesterday and the cooldown helped my girls a bit:
Southerncough
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PRETTY!!I think the rain yesterday and the cooldown helped my girls a bit:
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Sorry I accidentally tagged you instead of SmokingWings at first. Both are made of two words, both start with S, and most importantly both your names make me think about BBQ
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Old cannabis stumps are going here now.
Edit: that big one on the left is something we found in a wall while remodeling the barn we live in. There was a single bat cozied up next to it. Both have been appropriately rehomed.
Edit: that big one on the left is something we found in a wall while remodeling the barn we live in. There was a single bat cozied up next to it. Both have been appropriately rehomed.
Hello youWait you're a nurse, right? >.> Shouldn't....you be...
Holy fuck, humans...
also my life is like a carnival: lots of fun for the public...whole lot of work and filth behind the scenes. Weird carnies, too
My country was barely touched covid wise, and there is a real distrust for the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has made many complacent and non believing when it comes to the financial/medical carnage which is caused by being hit in the face by covid. We have a real tin foil hat demographic who actually believe the vaccine is a ploy for the government to microchip and track you. I’m not talking paranoid schizophrenic mental health patients who are off their meds here either. I’m talking general public.
They are saying the whole country will be vaccinated by Christmas, I say they are dreaming.
I think this will just be another yearly vaccine going forward.
I used to love the show when I was a teen. My annual carniboy fling was always a highlight,
Mdlroad
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Since I'm from North Carolina I understand the bbq remark
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How the hell have we survived as a species thus far? WHY ARE YOU TURNING INTO US? Go back! Shoo! Go towards the science, Carol Ann!
Seriously...the fuck? The people talking about 5G and Pizzagate here probably have fucking Cortana and Alexa running in their home. My mates wife is an RN. Her hospital refused to shut down the elective surgery floors even though the covid floors were fucking full. There's the real 'conspiracy'. Fake titties. Storm that health system. Not some dude's little pizza place. Not the fucking capitol dressed in dungeons and dragons hobo swag.
I know of a couple years other countries pulled their tamiflu stock before flu season because it was shown to have elevated risk of complications. No one noticed here. Everyone kept getting their yearly flu vax. Depoprovera? The Navy let me have that shit for yeeeaaaars. Oh man...our health system is so fucked. How we care for our people is shit. My mom's endocarditis was exasperated by Boniva. Actually...fuck all osteoporosis meds.
ugh.
fucking ugh.
Edit: Aaaand.....the medication that probably could have saved her life, weed, was kept illegal. Opiates are given out like stale purse candy. omg....brb it's a bong kind of morning.
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Sour Diesel is my new fave strain to grow. Look at her! Ahhh! I know @Weaselcracker is off being a badass salty dog but imma tag him because sativa:
I loooove that look. I'll take some clones after our Memorial Day holiday here.
Everyone else seems to be growing well. My only goal with this grow is a plant taller than me. I'm 5'2". I'm going to keep topping where I see it might benefit the plant's final yield. I will stop topping a month before flower starts here. While hunting through photos from last year to figure out exactly when that was, I found last year's plants in August:
It looks like they started flowering somewhere end of July, start of August? So I've got June to torment them.
Here's last year's crop in July
Taken July 17th, 2020. Flower starting?
Anyhoo....yeah. Selectively top until maybe a month before flower? Imma say I'll stop this year on the 4th of July because why not? Seems fitting.
The other ladies are happy:
I loooove that look. I'll take some clones after our Memorial Day holiday here.
Everyone else seems to be growing well. My only goal with this grow is a plant taller than me. I'm 5'2". I'm going to keep topping where I see it might benefit the plant's final yield. I will stop topping a month before flower starts here. While hunting through photos from last year to figure out exactly when that was, I found last year's plants in August:
It looks like they started flowering somewhere end of July, start of August? So I've got June to torment them.
Here's last year's crop in July
Taken July 17th, 2020. Flower starting?
The other ladies are happy:
I think many are using social media as their reference tool. They read a meme and that becomes evidence based truth.
We have the 5G’ers here too, and the irony that they rely on the fuel of 5G to charge their instasham, farcebook, tiktok, etc to keep them connected in their fear of being “tracked” is lost on them.
Elective was the first patient load to be cancelled here initially. We are backed up to fuck due to the only surgeries being performed during the first 6 months were emergency.
We hear your health system is truly fucked here, but when a coworker spoke to an RN friend of hers who nurses in NY she said they were being well looked after. Bussed in, free lunches, safe patient loads, meanwhile our news was reporting anarchy. So which is it?
Is she on methotrexate? That edit, is she still alive? Omg don’t get me started on the misuse of oxy!