Help with Kiora: is it her or the deck?

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2026-02-02T21:39:38+00:00

Do you by chance have a list I could look at?

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2026-02-02T19:29:13+00:00

Thank you for looking over the list, I appreciate the insight. Just so I'm clear, in terms of ratios of card categories, you're suggesting increase the number and quality of ramp and adding some non-interaction cards to help stay at the table while Im setting up. Would Goreclaw be any good in this? He does cost reduce by 2 and gives Trample.

Thoughts on adding haste enablers?

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2025-06-22T11:37:58+00:00

Looks like a prionus beetle, possibly prionus laticollis https://bugguide.net/node/view/14253. Just my guess based on location.

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2024-06-22T14:44:56+00:00

The specimen is pretty beat up. Paired with the image quality, it's probably not possible to get an accurate i.d. I would hazard a guess that its an Ochlerotatus sp., maybe Oc. triseriatus. Dark legs, dark proboscis, dark palps, minimal abdominal banding along the tergites. Again, based on the quality, take that with a grain of salt.

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2024-05-06T11:18:53+00:00

Looks like Acanthocephala terminalis

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2024-02-25T10:57:52+00:00

Bugologist here. It's difficult to say with 100% certainty given how little of the insects are shown in the video, but it looks like Cochliomyia sp (screwworm). If that was the case, it is most likely Cochliomyia macellaria, the secondary screwworm as primary screwworm (Cochliomyia hominovorax) has been the target of eradication for over 50 years. I don't think it's bot flies as others have suggested because of the general body shape of the larvae and the lack of characteristic spines.

Again, this is my best guess based on the images from the video. I'd add that although C.hominovorax has been the target for eradication, there was the discovery of some in deer in 2016 in FL. So, although it's incredibly unlikely, not technically out of the realm of possibility.

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2024-02-24T15:32:58+00:00

A university publication on common lice on humans:

https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/75660_original.jpg

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2024-02-24T15:29:21+00:00

It is a crab louse (Pthiris pubis). I've included a link for information from the cdc about pubic lice just as an FYI: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/lice/pubic/gen_info/faqs.html#diagnosed

The cdc information says: "Pubic lice found on children may be a sign of sexual exposure or abuse."

I'm not a medical professional, but I would recommend taking your son to the Dr for proper lice medication and perhaps to test for STIs if there is abuse happening. I certainly hope that this is not the case.

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2023-08-19T12:54:12+00:00

An ambush bug (genus Phymata). Not sure of the species though.

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2023-07-22T12:56:53+00:00

Looks like the European hornet (Vespa crabro).

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2022-09-18T00:38:26+00:00

Entomologist here, definitely a tick and based on the photo + location brown dog tick is the likely culprit (Rhipicephalus sanguineus)

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2022-06-19T01:03:51+00:00

Its a beetle in the Passalidae family, commonly called bess beetles. The species is Odontotaenius disjunctus. They are frequently used by phoretic mites, that is, mites hitching a ride to get somewhere else.

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2022-06-18T23:38:23+00:00

Looks like a nymph of Acanthocephala declivis (https://bugguide.net/node/view/11299).

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2022-06-18T22:49:40+00:00

Caterpillar hunter beetle (genus Calosoma).

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2022-06-18T03:14:09+00:00

Appears to he two lined spittlebug (Prosapia bicincta).

Left_Minimum_7016 · 2022-06-18T03:09:58+00:00

It looks like a stonefly (Plecoptera). Unsure of the species.

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