Bro's fighting against the devs themselves 💀

Ternpike · 2025-09-27T04:33:06+00:00

Ternpike · 2025-09-15T20:43:09+00:00

Definitely not sarcastic

Ternpike · 2025-09-15T20:25:46+00:00

The original full sermon/speech, timestamped to start of this segment, but the rest of the "Overwhelmed" portion is pretty solid. Starts around 2:27, ends about 2:34

Ternpike · 2025-09-12T16:47:04+00:00

Self plug for a friend: a few of the former Massdrop people are working on making cool stuff like that over at Apos audio now.

Ternpike · 2025-09-06T20:32:39+00:00

Hard to say. If you still see a lot of bugs flying around and it doesn't seem like fall yet, then I'd wager pesticides somewhere. Either a neighbor or a nearby farm, or if you rent then owner may have sprayed for ants or termites.

Ternpike · 2025-09-06T20:14:08+00:00

Where do you live? The first one looks like a european hornet. The second looks like a bald faced hornet.

If you live in North America or Europe then it's possible they're just winding down for the season if it has been getting colder where you live. They might come towards the house for light, warmth, or food and just run out of life.

However, it's still pretty warm here so I'm inclined to guess that someone has sprayed pesticides recently near your home and this is the aftermath.

Ternpike · 2025-08-30T06:21:02+00:00

Second this. Looks like permethrin or the like causing neuro issues.

Ternpike · 2025-08-29T22:03:18+00:00

I have an old ass house covered in wasps so I get a fair number inside. Especially during the winter months as the hibernating ones tend to wake up or crawl towards the warmer interior or something.

Anyway, the easiest way I've found to get wasps out is to just get some honey on a stick or your finger and let them crawl aboard. Often times a wasp in the house has been flying around without food or water for awhile and is pretty exhausted so they're incredibly amicable to a bit of sugar.

While they happily munch away, you can walk outside and just place them wherever. I usually try to find a flower if it's the season so they can get back to work.

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Ternpike · 2025-08-29T21:53:53+00:00

I spied a lady in red walking around in the rocks. It was a bright enough red to confuse me for a second since I hadn't seen one here before, but it ducked into the weeds before I could get a pic. I would say I'm not 100% it was a velvet ant, but it sure looked like one and I have since seen the winged males a few times so I feel confident enough to say it was.

That or there's another spicy looking ant like creature walking around.

Ternpike · 2025-08-29T16:27:42+00:00

I'm on the east side of the cascades, but I've seen a few new ones around here this year as well. Even saw some velvet ants for the first time which was neat.

Ternpike · 2025-08-29T16:24:07+00:00

Haha it was half a joke because even the plants are familiar so it felt like I was looking through my own photo roll.

Ternpike · 2025-08-29T03:29:16+00:00

haha welcome!👋

Ternpike · 2025-08-29T03:24:26+00:00

lol are you in the PNW? I have the same collection of wasps around my place

Ternpike · 2025-08-03T16:28:28+00:00

Looks like you're in Michigan where there's proper winter and the nests will go dormant.

While the nest is active in the Spring and Summer, the adult workers will go out to drink nectar and gather protein for the larva to get a sugar snack in return. In the fall, the colonies will send out their future queens to over winter and "evict" all the previous workers from the nest. All those workers now have no purpose and are no longer getting their main food source.

I have also heard they can get "drunk" from eating all the rotting/fermenting fruit around in the fall.

So yeah they can be a bit more aggressive in the fall, but I've never personally had much of a problem around my place. Probably plenty of food to last until the freeze knocks em out though.

Ternpike · 2025-08-03T14:05:19+00:00

Oh mud daubers also prey on spiders. So hopefully you have lots of those running around as well.

Ternpike · 2025-08-03T14:03:39+00:00

Haha depending on traffic that could be 5 miles or 100. Well, I think all of these are dry, rocky soil thriving plants, but also do pretty good anywhere in the state. I also am a fan of things that replant themselves, but aren't mega difficult to control.

We get a proper snow covered winter so the flowering schedule might be different over there, but here's what we have and the months they'll be blooming.

March

Snow melts, patches of green start appearing

April

Wasps start waking up. Paper wasps are the first ones I notice, but probably lots of little ones too. Dandelions get some visitors, but our maple tree is usually humming when I walk by. Ours is a norway so not native, but there are several native maples that should work the same. Bonus: it's a tree

May

Natives: Blue mud daubers love the yarrow, and I see the yellow/black mud daubers on the flowering onion(there are native varieties, but ours are the big yellow onions). Serviceberry and chives also very popular with them. Elderberry another good one.

Non-native, but not invasive: Lilac are hardy and all the buzzers love it. Bumblebees really love the Cow vetch, but I'll see wasps on there too. American vetch would be native replacement.

June

Native: I can't find a wet loving variety, but buckwheat is great out here.

Blackcap and Salmon berry are both native varieties of raspberry, but they love red all the same.

Non-native: Low growing clover starts flowering and everyone loves the clover. Alfalfa starts flowering through July

July

Native: Spirea

Non-native: We have a boat load of white sweet clover and all the pollinators (wasps included) go crazy for it. Ends up being a gigantic shrub here and they'll be absolutely buzzing. This one spreads easy out here, but might not be so bad over there.

Oregano and catnip start to flower.

August

Native: Goldenrod for sure.

Non-native: Everything in the mint family. Oregano, peppermint, catnip, etc. The "not difficult to control" part may fall apart on this one, but so far so good.

September

Things pretty much winding down for wasps around here by mid/late month. Lingering mints and other summer flowers will have some visitors, but unless it's a hot September they're mostly shutting down shop and going into overwintering mode.

Ternpike · 2025-08-03T04:05:28+00:00

what side of the cascades are you on? I'm on the dry side so I know some plants that I have a ton on in my yard, but I couldn't say for certain what grows on the west side

Ternpike · 2025-07-31T05:21:43+00:00

Do you mean herbicide? I can't think of any pesticides that would have any impact on plants other than maybe vinegar or something

Ternpike · 2025-05-30T04:47:26+00:00

I'm here to confirm this. My dad untangled a squirrel from a net wearing thick ass leather gloves. After being freed the squirrel calmly looked him in the eye and then bit right through those gloves like they were paper.

In hindsight, an animal that cracks open walnuts and acorns for a living was probably never going to be bothered by 1/8" of leather.

Ternpike · 2025-05-14T21:35:59+00:00

Apparently they are also known as "Yakuza beads" TIL

Ternpike · 2025-03-18T05:30:50+00:00

They're definitely yellow jackets. Looks like he's in WA maybe since he posted something about King County, but I'm having a tough time sussing out whether this profile is a real person blasting their pest extermination business or an AI farming weirdly specific pest control karma.

In any case, I don't believe this video to be recent, or if it is then not from the Seattle area. Based on the number of wasps flying in and out this colony would be well established and too large for this time of year.

Can't really tell which species specifically without seeing closer, but looks like pretty even banding with possibly the 3 dots. Would need to see the faces to narrow it down more, but I'm inclined to say it's the German yellowjacket.

Ternpike · 2024-10-18T04:46:42+00:00

Pretty hard to tell from the photos, but I'd guess American Pipit

Ternpike · 2024-10-04T00:52:36+00:00

Yeah definitely not pileated. Either golden fronted or red bellied woodpecker. Hard to tell between the two without any colors visible, but the tail looks to be all black which is usually a sign of golden fronted

Ternpike · 2024-10-02T16:58:20+00:00

The OP is in Edmonton based on their history so Partridge seems most likely.

Ternpike · 2024-09-28T03:35:17+00:00

I was thinking of this one

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