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did anyone else notice that the fireflies quit early this year? i seem to remember a few years back they were swarming well into October due to warm moist weather. i might've thought they'd do the same this year if you told me the weather ahead of time, but i haven't seen them in several weeks, well back into mid-August.
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oh man, you think? i should buy $100 SPY puts
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the problem is in the very nature of generalist and specialist predators. generalist predators, like spiders, mantids, will kill and eat this bug, like they kill and eat many bugs, but they don't seek it out or have an evolutionary niche in killing it, and so are not particularly effective at control, especially against the kind of population density the lanternfly can accomplish. chickens are also generalist predators but can eat much more than a typical density of insect predators, and can better locally control lanternflies. specialist predators, that might hunt a specific species basically exclusively and control it, aren't here for the lanternfly because of course the lanternfly is not only unknown to the northeast but has poor analogues in the animal kingdom for other insects that are here. around the world there any many specific species or genera of insects which are controlled by one specific wasp species. wasps are like antibodies in the insect world. there is a wasp species Anastatus orientalis which is under investigation because it parasitizes the spotted lanternfly with, apparently, a high specificity.
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now we'll never know where he got his ideas from
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i have new-all-time-record fatigue
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there's actually another round behind it if it can hold up
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oh, you will. i'm not really sure what is supposed to stop their march north. tree-of-heaven can be found throughout SNE and it's not like our climate is that different. there's no natural predators yet. they are an amazingly prolific bug when they get a foothold.
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and with the strong lapse rates and decent surface heating there's a chance for this to evolve into some kind of MCC-like feature?
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rclab, i absolutely roasted you in off topic and i need you to hear it i am so sorry my friend also does Perkins still exist
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my cat's breath smells like cat food, thanks obama
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uhhhh idk maybe Juan in Nova Scotia in 2003? great question. i can’t find anything that readily answers that question. and as for the pacific I haven’t a clue.
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Larry is forecast to go extratropical between 45.1 and 52 degrees north--pretty decently high latitude. the record is Hurricane Faith, 1966, which at 61.1 degrees north was the northernmost Atlantic TC history. this Weather Fact was brought to you by Juliancolton's Baked Corn 'N' Weenies Cereal. when you think breakfast, think corn and weenies. back to you, LibertyBell.
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78/68 at 8:20 PM on September 8th. i'm really just numb to humidity at this point, this feels perfectly comfortable especially with the wind. i'd like to understand the physiological responses to constant exposure to heat and humidity. there must be long-term adjustments the body makes if you move to different climates. probably centered around hormonal changes and metabolic adjustments but probably too electrolyte and water management, skin secretions, hair growth, who knows.
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the whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door
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people have been bitching about the NWS and TV Mets since Moses wore short pants and it’s never going to change in your lifetime. too many warnings, not enough warnings, the weathermen are always wrong, etc. the average person barely has a surface knowledge of weather and what goes into it and how it’s forecasted. also the average person consumes 14 pounds of Cool Ranch Doritos in a year and flosses once every three months. if the NWS can save a few average people by stopping them from driving directly into floods and tornadoes, that’s basically the most you can hope for, and they are still going to complain anyway.
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i've never thought to bake corn, that sounds pretty good.
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try malt liquor i am pretty sure Freud wrote something about this he is gray in both appearance and demeanor
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somewhat ironically, we now need the rain to wash off some of these muddy, silty roads and surfaces. River Road is a mess.
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Jack Black looks terrible
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thank you for asking. my summer was great. it was one insane weather event after another. had a good time doing lightning photography. the dew points were horrible but ultimately a necessary evil to enable the storms we got to see. on the downside, many of my posts this summer received weenies. i will not forget such grave insults. revenge will be taken on the offenders in alphabetical order.
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i wish forky would open up. i love his posts. he chooses quality over quantity. i just like having fun with you guys and sharing my photos but forky is a super smart guy. i always think he’s got the secret sauce when we are trying to figure things out. he is probably playing the futures market while we talking about an inch here or there
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beautiful day en route to a beautiful weekend
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i'm about to make a ton of bad posts i cannot accept being supplanted as the site's worst poster by a bunch of Johnny-fail-lately's
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buy/rent a dehumidifier and hit the moisture hard. drop desiccant everywhere you feel like, it’s a hell of a lot easier to remove than mold and a hundredth as dangerous and costly as mold is. be liberal with bleach on spots if you think you have mold growth. if you have the means get a professional early before it starts manifesting because it’s like bedbugs, an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure. area mold professionals will be busy and charging accordingly. if you put some work in over the next few days you will save yourself a lot of time money and stress. -
hey man I have dealt with my own flooding during Irene and want to say I hope you are doing well, it can be real stressful shit. be aggressive with mold.
