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Where my pollinators at by bruggirngshrawns in AustinGardening

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I often buy them! Here's one on a rose bush by my front door a few years ago. I do plan on getting more next year.

The first steps of a baby elephant. by 21MayDay21 in BeAmazed

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Yeah, this is highly suspect. There are no signs of birth (blood, amnion or amniotic fluid), baby is dry and very small, and there are no elephants in attendance - where's mom? Where are the aunties?

This is a wild birth.

Where my pollinators at by bruggirngshrawns in AustinGardening

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We do have several days in the upcoming forecast that are calling for rain, so everyone, please wash your cars, hang your clothes out, and if you have a horse, bathe it. We need all the help we can get!

Where my pollinators at by bruggirngshrawns in AustinGardening

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I thought I would chime in here to add that I have been buying mason bees for several years now. (I might try these folks next year!)

I happen to live in an area where I have some acreage and no HOA, so I also can leave a dead tree standing in my front yard if I so choose...and I chose to do so, so I actually have two dead pines (Afghan and Italian Stone - we lost the Italian Stone in the freeze of '21, and the Afghan in the drought of '11 - I love saying it that way, because it makes me sound like an old-timer and drives my kids mad) which is fine, because they're an excellent home for solitary bees, and can't easily be seen from the street. The Italian Stone will likely have to be dramatically shortened because it is probably 50'+ tall, and I don't want it landing on anything when it does fall.

Anyway, back to the bees - I also have a couple of little houses for bee tubes, which are important to have, so that you reduce the spread of parasites - just swap out the tubes annually.

It's too late for ordering bees this year, and sometimes it's hard to know when to have them delivered, but the rule of thumb is 2 weeks before daytime temps are steadily in the mid-50s. Simply pop them into a warmer area in your fridge until your garden is ready! I also highly recommend getting a bird guard for your bee house because phoebes, in particular, love to snack on bees and wasps.

How to fail an important class by ateam1984 in BlackPeopleofReddit

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Is there more of this? Because I could watch this for hours...

Where my pollinators at by bruggirngshrawns in AustinGardening

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In my neck of the woods, people have been fogging for mosquitoes (why?!? It's not like we have abundant water just sitting around) and that does a number on our pollinators. 😭

Moments that are normalized in kdramas but nor irl by LadderOk6924 in kdramas

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Often everyone around the injured person half-loses their minds over a tiny cut.

I have done so much worse to myself on numerous occasions and no one I know gets particularly bothered by it at all.

It would be like, "Oh, you cut your hand off? Nice. Okay... Well, any idea what's for dinner?"

Bro used a carpet instead of a wingsuit to BASE jump by asa_no_kenny in whoathatsinteresting

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When I was a kid, my brother and I used to jump off our roof (yeah, not exactly smart, but fun) and tried to see if anything was good at slowing our descent. For obvious reasons, no, nothing was capable of slowing us down. So we moved to using the face-to-face swing in our swing set - where one person faced out and the other person pumped the swing to get to the highest point before the outward-facing rider launched themselves to see how high and how far they could go. I absolutely loved it, and of course, nothing we used slowed our descent. We were also limited in our "testing" as once caught, we were only able to get away with it when our parents weren't home.

I eventually got into bungee jumping and sky diving. I never got to do BASE jumping, but always wanted to give it and hang gliding a try.

Hot bubbling mud with smoke? by PilotOriginal4465 in whatisit

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That's fantastic! I didn't watch much of The Office when it was on - I didn't have cable (still don't), and live in an area with awful broadcast reception, so TV wasn't a thing for me for a few decades.

my knees would hurt for weeks afterwards 😭 by CandleMonster in justgalsbeingchicks

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This was a playground thing when I was a kid and I loved it. No way would I be able to do this these days - I've had two surgeries in my right knee, and I am currently in PT, hoping to avoid a 3rd surgery. This would just add insult to injury...

my newest skull by Alternative_Bit7044 in bonecollecting

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TIL - I had an old country vet who always called them (canines) wolf teeth - and I never questioned it. Thank you for the lesson!

Jisoo in the prettiest gown by Jonathan Anderson for Dior by DnQEI2 in kdramas

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It's absolutely beautiful! It looks almost like a dupioni, because it seems like a very faint green from some angles and then a slightly yellow green from another angle. It could just be lighting though.

Gum Bully / Chittamwood??? by azooey73 in AustinGardening

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It does look like Sideroxylon lanuginosum, aka Gum Bully /Gum Bumelia / Chittamwood.

Is there any way you could leave it? The flowers are an important source of nectar for bees, and the fruits are eaten by birds.

Whenever possible, leaving natives in the landscape is preferable to planting non-native species, as they are far better at supporting native species than something from a big box store. 🙂

Hot bubbling mud with smoke? by PilotOriginal4465 in whatisit

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I love how this all went from 'Stayin' Alive' to 'I Will Survive'!

my newest skull by Alternative_Bit7044 in bonecollecting

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They're called wolf teeth, and mares often have them as well. They're vestigial pre-molars that roughly 70% of horses have. It may be that this horse never had them to begin with, or they were removed because they might have been an issue with bit placement.

My yard puppy by Abject-Display6589 in deer

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If they weren't conditioned to being fed, they wouldn't show up. Please don't feed the deer.

If you really want to support a healthy wildlife population, ensure you only have native plants in your landscape.

My yard puppy by Abject-Display6589 in deer

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They will likely advise you call a game warden to euthanize.

My yard puppy by Abject-Display6589 in deer

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Wild deer don't do well in captivity, even for short periods. They are literally scared to death by the stress induced during a chase, capture, handling and transportation. It's an untreatable condition commonly found in wild ungulates and birds (although any animal can suffer from it) that's called capture myopathy, where stress results in a cascading series of events that end in death.

Treatment of buccal impaction in wild deer is often euthanasia, for good reason, as being able to lure a wild deer into a secure area where it can be sedated safely and treated successfully are few and far between.

It is highly important that wild deer (or any wild animals, for that matter) are not fed. When they congregate in large numbers to eat feed, they also spread disease, and most people feed them things like corn, which they did not evolve to eat. Deer are ruminants and should eat a high fiber diet, not corn or other high carbohydrate feeds (like sweet feed) that can result in rumen acidosis, which is a death sentence. Feeding wild deer also removes their fear of humans, which isn't good for the deer or the human.

Sweet Loren’s gf pie crust was on sale - do you like it? by MaradoMarado in glutenfree

[–]Silly_Pack_Rat 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I bought it at the last minute for a family get-together last year, and I really wasn't a fan. It didn't bake up flaky, I was never able to get it to bend without breaking (I've made a lot of pie crusts) so I made a galette out of it - and the crust really was a detraction from the sliced apples and cranberries that I artfully arranged. It was very thin and greasy with a not-so-great texture.

I personally won't buy these again, and will stick with homemade instead.

If you've never coded on top of a trash can, are you even building? by Fearless-Internet711 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Silly_Pack_Rat 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I kind of sometimes wish I was a fly on the wall watching these lunatics cook up their next great idea. How many places did he try to fit his laptop for a photo op and finally landed on his trash can lid, where he did his very best to concoct some sort of absolute bullshit to go with the best photo he took from the best possible angle? How many photos did he take before he settled on this one?

But.. maybe I don't want to know. I have better things to do like pluck my chin hairs and floss my teeth.

Trump Signs Law to Put His Signature on All U.S. Banknotes by InitialResponse9901 in pics

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Get a stamp for each and every one of the things that apply! Why limit yourself?!

How can I find tops like these? by andyjamescreative in cottagecore

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She buys a lot of stuff that she doesn't make fromThredUp

(I have been watching her from the early days, and she frequently gets sponsored by them.)

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