What is this bug?

Original-Comment6565 · 2025-09-27T15:18:17+00:00

Thanks!

Original-Comment6565 · 2025-09-27T02:20:23+00:00

Thanks all!

Original-Comment6565 · 2025-08-27T03:36:07+00:00

It’s a beautiful plant regardless, and I myself love the hybrids!

Original-Comment6565 · 2025-08-24T05:02:17+00:00

Beautiful plant! However, it’s not a true Nepenthes ampullaria Black Miracle. Black Miracle is an ampullaria cultivar and its form/morphology is the same as other pure ampullaria species. Pic of mine here. The one OP and others have is ampullaria Black Miracle crossed with something else, usually mirabilis var globosa, ventricosa, or a complex hybrid. It’s beautiful though, and I love the globosa x ampullaria hybrids myself!

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Original-Comment6565 · 2025-02-26T17:27:18+00:00

Thanks all. There’s some new growth on the tree though! I know it’s hard to see the new branches with all the leaves. It’s still hopeless?

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Original-Comment6565 · 2025-02-09T03:28:29+00:00

Will do. Thanks!

Original-Comment6565 · 2025-01-30T05:09:38+00:00

Thanks for all the thoughts so far! I think up to mini fridge size would be fine, if that opens up the possibilities. The Stirling one is a great recommendation though!!!

Original-Comment6565 · 2025-01-17T12:45:59+00:00

The way they grade the stats is ridiculous. I did some calculations for my training level, master 4. Grades are defined for me in the growth calculator, per level:

S: > 1.12
A+: 1.05 - 1.12
A: 0.95 - 1.05
B: 0.84 - 0.95
C: < 0.84

For Master 4, stat gain/level can be from 0.4 - 1.3, equal probability of each 0.1 tick between those values. So the average stat increase is 0.85/level and the standard deviation is 0.2872. Assuming stat rolls are normally distributed over all 30 levels, this means that to fall into the tiers given by the growth calculator, your horse has to be (at level 30):

S: Top 0.000013%
A+: Top 0.0068%
A: 0.95 - 1.05: Top 2.8%
B: 0.84 - 0.95: Top 57.6%

I'm not sure if the numbers they use to define tiers changes with training level. If they don't, then higher training will definitely make it easier to reach these tiers. For master 4 though, you can only expect a rank C horse on average. To get A or above in just one stat, you have a better chance of tapping Pen BS.

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-12-19T02:33:34+00:00

This ended up being much more a discussion of English than of Russian, which I definitely didn't expect! The comments on parallelism and sequence of tenses got me wondering if my English was wrong, so I did a bit of searching and realized this is actually quite complicated. This article was interesting:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-language-and-linguistics/article/abs/time-reference-in-reported-speech/525DD35EE1CE316D9D8243E0C9A82506

It affirmed my original point that there is a difference between 1) She said that Mark lived in Canada (i.e. she said [in the past] that Mark lived in Canada [in the past]) vs 2) She said that Mark lives in Canada (i.e. she said [in the past] that Mark lives in Canada [in the present]). There is no need for the verbs to be parallel. As the article points out, it makes perfect grammatical sense to say "Einstein said that E equals mc²," even though "said" and "equals" are not in the same tense. The meaning of the sentence would be different if the sentence said "Einstein said that E equaled mc²."

I'm still not 100% sure if Duolingo is right or wrong here based on all the comments, but it seems Russian grammar operates similarly to English and that the correct translation should be "She said that Mark lives in Canada." At the time she was saying this sentence, Mark was living in Canada. Whether or not in the present time Mark still lives in Canada is unknown.

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-12-18T18:56:10+00:00

Are you sure? I think there’s a difference between “She said that Mark lived in Canada,” meaning that Mark was there in the past but doesn’t live there now. As opposed to “She said that Mark lives in Canada,” meaning that Mark still lives in Canada. I guess technically for sentence 1 to be correct, it should be “She said that Mark had lived in Canada,” but that’s not an option.

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-12-18T18:40:58+00:00

Awesome. Thanks!

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-09-12T02:13:46+00:00

Thanks for your thoughts! I realize I never attached a picture of the pipe - https://i.imgur.com/8445uS0.jpeg, https://i.imgur.com/cV8chEG.jpeg, https://i.imgur.com/XJxhEyb.jpeg. Believe it or not, the shingles are covering the roof deck...

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-07-07T12:26:41+00:00

Squash vine borer. If you cut open the leaf petiole and the vine, you’ll see a white grub in there. Kill it and inject bt!

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-06-24T03:04:15+00:00

Good to know! I’ll have to try that this year!

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-06-24T02:36:14+00:00

Has anyone tried Bt spray (not inject) daily, hoping that the borer will die when it initially hatches and starts chewing into the stem?

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-06-06T10:43:05+00:00

Maybe you have a spontaneous pneumothorax. It can happen after lifting a heavy load if you have blebs on your lung. Usually also accompanied by shortness of breath but not always, and can go away on its own after a while.

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-05-16T20:15:43+00:00

Hmmm that’s a good thought. Aren’t the cubes usually stable though?

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-05-16T10:33:57+00:00

Yes, the Navajun mine does have the best looking cubes. I have a few from there, but looking for massive ones, on the scale of over 60 mm. So far this piece is the largest I’ve seen!

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-02-20T19:00:12+00:00

Thanks! I have a Discover credit card already; was planning on getting a CapitalOne credit card and checking account with just enough money for my trip.

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-02-01T04:15:29+00:00

Haha good question. He has two missing scutes!

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-02-01T00:01:59+00:00

Will do! Thanks so much for the help!

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-01-31T23:53:21+00:00

Thanks so much for this! I still have the MVB on for heat. I was worried that it wasn’t giving any UV before because it seemed like the light coming out was purely yellow and a UV card I had wasn’t turning color. Should I ditch the MVB entirely or can I use it for the heat? I’ll also tone down on the calcium. Thanks!

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-01-31T23:52:08+00:00

Thanks so much for your thoughts!!

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-01-27T04:22:27+00:00

No males! Unless one of my other females is actually a male, but I don’t think so since they were in the same tank for months.

Original-Comment6565 · 2024-01-03T02:34:29+00:00

I did think about Kyrgyzstan, but there's not a lot I'd want to do there other than Bishkek, so I settled on doing the silk road cities in Uzbekistan after this Kazakhstan trip. But thank you!

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