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IronTy

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  1. What's all these reports of cold temps? It's 67 here right now. Stupid bay.
  2. Trust Short Pump to get all that action tho. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  3. What's the impact if this hurricane season fails to materialize? My understanding is that hurricanes are basically engines that transport heat from the tropics to the poles. Without any hurricanes this year it seems like all that heat won't be transferred and will just sit in the tropical waters. Eventually something has to give, right?
  4. Wut!? At ease @mattie g these babies are too valuable to waste on fish. Those regalis are worth about $10 a piece. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  5. Check these out. L4/L5 larvae of the Death's Head Hawkmoth. It puts the lotion on its skin. Ok back to my basement to continue sewing.... Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  6. Not sure if there are any other lep lovers here. I had this girl eclose a few days ago. It's actually an eacles imperialis form didyma. The female has much more dark markings on the wing margins than regular imperialis. They're very rare around here. In 20yrs of rearing and collecting down in Calvert co. I've never seen a didyma. Luckily she paired with a wild males, I hope some of her offspring have the same trait. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  7. All the better in winter, fewer trips outside to fill. We have so many birds here that it usually needs refilling every 3 days or so. Stupid house finches just sit there and mow through it. At least the titmice, woodpeckers and chickadees have the decency to fly away with the seed to eat it (or hide it). I find little stashes of sunflower seeds in the strangest places.
  8. Yeah I have no idea how the first guy determined we weren't low on refrigerant. This guy hooked his pressure gauge up and was like duh it's low and he sniffed out a leak in the coil. Luckily it's under warranty so I just have to pay labor. At work when we have an unplanned shutdown we lose $3M worth of refrigerant each time. Doh! Sorry mod, just wanted to close the loop, last mention of AC problems here.
  9. Not monarchs but my regalis have started pupating. They're monsters this year. Not sure why they grew so huge other than copious rain and very hot. One of my females is 18 grams. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  10. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0007LQ3RQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title I've had one of these for a couple years now and I can confirm it is 100% squirrel proof. They can't solve it despite hours of trying.
  11. Seems like cold front passed through. Was puking fatties for a bit and now the dewpoints have dropped down to Serengeti levels.
  12. Hmmmm.....one helluva cold front must be coming.
  13. Idk but the amount looks accurate for my house.
  14. IronTy

    Winter 2022-23

    Of all the winters I remember, 22-23 should stack up to be the most recent.
  15. That radar image was way more bark than bite. I'm not sure we even had a breeze. Looks like about 1.25" so far which pretty much means no chance of drought for the rest of the growing season. I'll take it. New roof has held up with no leaks either.
  16. Yikes that radar looks like I'm about to get my ass kicked.
  17. Keep it together everybody, plenty of storms forming west and heading east.
  18. 90/76, feels like 102, ugh. Man it's hot. Drove my old Subaru to work today and apparently some mouse made a nest in the cabin air box because just turning the AC on smells like a mix of dead leaves and mouse piss. Sophie's choice ..no AC in the car or mouse pee smell permeating everything @KAOS, fyi turns out I have a condenser coil leak on my AC in the attic. Case solved, getting fixed just in time for the cool weather. Topped up refrigerant in the meantime and air temp dropped by 7deg instantly. Ok sorry back to weather...
  19. As long as you have antibiotics.....
  20. Hot and wet equals disease.
  21. Supposedly Bittinger is at 69F. So jealous I'm not there instead of here (still 92F).
  22. IronTy

    Winter 2022-23

    It's more over than it's ever been over before.
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