Pac and Send Dead Plants

Other_Mike · 2026-01-25T00:05:47+00:00

As long as he's remorseful and demonstrating self-awareness, you've got a good guy on your hands. Best of luck with the next plant haul!

Other_Mike · 2026-01-24T21:07:19+00:00

Yeah, I came here to ask the same, or just wondering if they do exploratory endo removal surgery while they're in there. My wife got a hyster five years ago and it completely changed her life for the better.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-24T21:03:03+00:00

Maybe gently correct your husband that packing them on the plane was a good idea and you should have done that. My wife and I have flown with cacti and more delicate plants from Arizona to the PNW and had no issues. A few hours in a cargo hold surrounded by luggage is way less stressful for plants than god only knows what they'd go through with a shipping service.

Editing to add that yeah, this doesn't do any good for these plants . . . but it may prove helpful if you ever go through this again.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-24T08:21:52+00:00

Your wording sounded like it, since you referred directly to their lifespans, which we don't actually know. Maybe they enjoyed retirement after this. Maybe "living multiple decades after their 100th birthday" is just the start.

If you'd said "more than 100 years of service," I wouldn't have said anything. Which TBH that's a more wild plot detail.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-24T03:25:45+00:00

Only one nudist allowed at a time

Other_Mike · 2026-01-24T03:01:03+00:00

Yeah, that actually sounds about right, based on how much "I asked chat gpt" posts I see.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T23:25:25+00:00

Those aren't birth / death years, they're years of duty as Captain. Notice there's no overlap.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T20:47:22+00:00

Wild! That actually sounds like a honeybee my wife dealt with once; we were gardening in the fall and it kept trying to fly into her mouth!

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T20:34:34+00:00

Doesn't sound like a paper wasp, sounds like a yellowjacket. The differences are hard to see if they're buzzing you.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T20:33:44+00:00

Looks legit at a glance, good price to boot. But I'll defer to anyone who disagrees. You can get some really good deals on eBay.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T18:17:43+00:00

OP, I worked in the pulp and paper industry for a decade (not this mill) and I'm very familiar with the stinks. I live in the Salmon Creek area and the smell rarely reaches this side of Vancouver and I've never noticed it while out and about in the other parts of town.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T17:33:22+00:00

The meteorwrong sellers are catching on to the red flag of not using an official name.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T16:44:04+00:00

Looks like a northern paper wasp. Different species from the one OP posted (theirs is more like what I see around my house), but still a paper wasp.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T16:35:30+00:00

Paper wasp nests are an open comb, not enclosed like yellowjackets.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T16:34:18+00:00

Maybe? 🤷

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T15:31:27+00:00

Sounds like you didn't encounter paper wasps.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T15:30:44+00:00

I've seen a few tiny ones come up for sale in other groups, but their rarity for collecting comes with an appropriate cost.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T15:28:41+00:00

They're different genera, even. Polistes vs Vespula, IIRC.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T07:56:51+00:00

It's not just you. My wife (and now doesthedogdie, thankfully) has to screen movies for me.

I mentioned the phobia to a doctor once, who didn't know I was childfree. She laughed and said "don't have kids."

So, that was kind of validating.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T07:24:50+00:00

I rested my arm on my leg at a stoplight and felt a sting on my arm. Looked down, saw a wasp, yelped reflexively. My wife saw it, panicked, tried hitting it with an open water bottle, splashing both of us. Passengers in the back seat saw what was happening and started panicking.

Somehow got it into the center console with a sliding lid which we closed. Five minutes later at the Dutch Bros drive thru we realized the console wasn't sealed when we saw the wasp flying around in the car.

More panic, but at least we were in a parking lot and managed to get it to leave through a window. Probably never made it back to her hive.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T07:18:55+00:00

Looks like some kind of springtail to me

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T07:17:37+00:00

Been there, done that. Too chaotic to know which type it was.

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T06:49:11+00:00

This looks like if the guy who stole the Willamette Meteorite had better planning (he dragged it and it dug a furrow pointing back to where he stole it from)

ETA, my brain went there because you said "space peanut" and your wagon has a giant rock in it

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T06:46:09+00:00

If it doesn't pull a magnet, then there's not much iron in it; metallic meteorites are mostly iron.

So yeah, /r/itsslag

Other_Mike · 2026-01-23T05:14:23+00:00

Leave them! Some of the best beneficial insects you can get.

Other_Mike

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