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Disturbing implications
Last week, we had a sudden infestation of these flies, to the point that we had to vacuum them off of the windows:
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Don't make the ladies angry. You won't like them when they're angry.
So, we've been tearing down an old outbuilding because it was (a) rotting to the point of being unsafe, and (b) kind of in the way. Friday, I was stripping off shingles to take to the dump, and had gotten to the last bit on the edge of the roof. As I was pulling up on the shingles, I suddenly felt this stabbing pain on the back of my hand, and as ( Read more... ) -
[Expletive Deleted] Black Fly
And the black flies, the little black flies
Always the black fly no matter where you go
I'll die with the black fly a Pickin' my bones
In North Ontar-i-o-i-o, In North Ontar-i-o
-Wade Hemsworth, "The Black Fly Song"[1]
And here we have a "black fly", family Simuliidae, also known as "buffalo gnats" (either because of their humped back, or because ( Read more... ) -
Poking holes in things
Every morning when I bicycle to work, I go past "Houghton Medical Arts", a private clinic. For a long time, their sign out in front has said "Try Acupuncture for Pain", and whenever I saw this, i would think of a scenario kind of like this ( Read more... ) -
Revisiting an earlier species
A few weeks ago, I posted pictures of a predatory beetle, and mentioned that I'd like to get a picture of the larva of that beetle, because they were pretty wicked-looking[1]. Well, here's a nice example, which I found crawling across the kitchen floor[2]. The small squares on the grid are 1 mm, so this larva is close to 2 cm long.
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Aaahh! Zombie mouse!
OK, so on Wednesday[1], there was some stuff I had to haul out of the basement. The basement has one of those outdoor cellar entrances, with a slanting hatchway covering a set of concrete steps leading down. Since this was the best way to haul out bulky things, I opened up the lid . . . and saw . . . a dead mouse laying on the stairs [2]. Ok, ( Read more... ) -
test
I have an entry I've been trying to post for two days, let's see if I can post *anything*.
