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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

The fact that we are into our 2nd week in April and I am in a winter storm warning! Supposed to get 6-12 inches in the next 2 days
What a lovely winter we're having this spring..
 
Another thing that pisses me off is people who are constantly playing with their phones, especially those who do not watch where they are going.
 
pbf98 said:
The fact that we are into our 2nd week in April and I am in a winter storm warning! Supposed to get 6-12 inches in the next 2 days
What a lovely winter we're having this spring..
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You'll get it, too. We've got the blizzard warnings up - so far no snow, but the big trees are swaying. Somewhere around 30 mph steady with higher gusts.

It was snowing and raining pretty hard in Denver last night - so far the Palmer Divide has blocked some of the snow.

Beaufort Wind Scale
 
starting to feel a little panicky..ish...

I think I maybe bit off more than I can chew..
again:/


just gotta breathe , stop these fight or flight impulses...put on my big girl pants, focus, start kicking it and taking names....in that order!

so to speak ..and stuff:/

ugh!!..
 
Wasps are those psychotic venomous flying insects sent by jheeezuz to destroy our summer :)
Think semi-automatic honey bee with an attitude ;)

(I have a deep phobia of wasps that ive learned to control by flapping my arms like a turkey, slapping my ears and screaming like a girl)
 
funkylogik said:
Wasps are those psychotic venomous flying insects sent by jheeezuz to destroy our summer :)
Think semi-automatic honey bee with an attitude ;)

(I have a deep phobia of wasps that ive learned to control by flapping my arms like a turkey, slapping my ears and screaming like a girl)
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Oh dear... that's an image in my head I won't get rid off easily :o
 
Now, now. A bee can only sting once. It leaves its stinger and dies.

Wasps and hornets can sting multiple times - that's why they are so aggressive.

I got a yellow jacket inside my helmet, it tore him in half. Since the pain wasn't too bad I hung on until we got close to a town. All I could see otherwise was the Vulcan spitting or relieving himself in the dirt to make mud!

We used mud as kids. Didn't realize there was stuff for stings. I rarely get stung.
 
zuben el genub said:
Now, now. A bee can only sting once. It leaves its stinger and dies.

Wasps and hornets can sting multiple times - that's why they are so aggressive.

I got a yellow jacket inside my helmet, it tore him in half. Since the pain wasn't too bad I hung on until we got close to a town. All I could see otherwise was the Vulcan spitting or relieving himself in the dirt to make mud!

We used mud as kids. Didn't realize there was stuff for stings. I rarely get stung.
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Lucky you
 
ever see one of these?:eek: I see them all the time flying around my house!

After digging a nest chamber in the burrow, female cicada killers capture cicadas, paralyzing them with a sting. After paralyzing a cicada, the female wasp holds it upside down beneath her and takes off toward her burrow; this return flight to the burrow is difficult for the wasp because the cicada is often more than twice her weight. After putting one or more cicadas in her nest cell, the female deposits an egg on a cicada and closes the cell with dirt. Male eggs are laid on a single cicada but female eggs are given two or sometimes three cicadas; this is because the female wasp is twice as large as the male and must have more food. New nest cells are dug as necessary off of the main burrow tunnel and a single burrow may eventually have 10 or more nest cells. The egg hatches in one or two days, and the cicadas serve as food for the grub.


you're welcome:)
 
zuben el genub said:
Now, now. A bee can only sting once. It leaves its stinger and dies.

Wasps and hornets can sting multiple times - that's why they are so aggressive.

I got a yellow jacket inside my helmet, it tore him in half. Since the pain wasn't too bad I hung on until we got close to a town. All I could see otherwise was the Vulcan spitting or relieving himself in the dirt to make mud!

We used mud as kids. Didn't realize there was stuff for stings. I rarely get stung.
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Hence why theyre semi-automatic lol. They sting out of sheer evil :)
I do actualy respect them though :thumbup:
 
Thankfully, I am not allergic to wasp stings... they hurt like the dickens, but I can tolerate being stung multiple times.

I really don't like having an injured shoulder. I have to wear a sling to remind myself not to use it in the hope that I can avoid getting surgery...
I am probably just delaying the inevitable, though-- my ligaments are the one thing that does not heal very fast.
 
huh said:
ever see one of these?:eek: I see them all the time flying around my house!

After digging a nest chamber in the burrow, female cicada killers capture cicadas, paralyzing them with a sting. After paralyzing a cicada, the female wasp holds it upside down beneath her and takes off toward her burrow; this return flight to the burrow is difficult for the wasp because the cicada is often more than twice her weight. After putting one or more cicadas in her nest cell, the female deposits an egg on a cicada and closes the cell with dirt. Male eggs are laid on a single cicada but female eggs are given two or sometimes three cicadas; this is because the female wasp is twice as large as the male and must have more food. New nest cells are dug as necessary off of the main burrow tunnel and a single burrow may eventually have 10 or more nest cells. The egg hatches in one or two days, and the cicadas serve as food for the grub.


you're welcome:)
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Augh.... nightmare! Thanks mate :beer::)
 
If it wasn't for honeybees as pollinators, the food supply might be in trouble.
A lot of plants have sorted themselves out as to pollinator
Hummingbirds like long tubular flowers, beetles like stuff that stinks. Bees can actually "see" a pathway to the nectar. Moths have another requirement.
We haven't quite engineered that yet.

And yeah - the 17 year cicadas are emerging now.
 
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