A quick search shows one post that mentions “zombie-ant fungus” (the link in my post) and one in 2015 that refers to Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.
Cue the “I saw what you did there” response…
TIL that foxes will gorge on blackberries. This arose from an allotment animal shit ID question - hmm, looks like carnivore but full of seeds - and our resident wildlife expert wised us up on this. As this isn’t much of a cite, I went a-googling - here you go:
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Which is why the ZiS-30 not really a tank at all. It’s usually referred to as a mobile anti-tank gun. The driver has some light armor around him, but the gunners are barely shielded from the front, and unshielded on five sides. (Even the platform they are standing on is wooden.)
ZIS-30 video (Yes, it’s a game, but it’s accurate.)
Robert Mitchum often had that forward head thrust that makes it look like a mockup. It was just part of his posture. I think it was even more obvious as he aged.
And like many of Hollywood’s biggest stars he had a big head. I mean proportionally his head was on the large side, oft said to be an asset for an actor.
Merv Griffin once said that the reason why Vanna White became a star was that her head was large for her body.
There’s a kind of roomba made just for dairy farmers. It rolls up and down the aisles of a cow barn, scraping up poop and dumping it off. Or if the barn floor is slatted, it just scrapes the poop along and it falls through the slats. The cows are bemused but unconcerned.
Hence the old Aesop fable about the fox and the “sour grapes”. In fact the carnivore/herbivore divide is not as sharp as might be supposed, with lots of opportunistic feeding. Anything calorie or nutrient dense enough will attract feeders of every sort. Lots of herbivores have been seen scavenging carcasses, and deer are known to actively hunt fish.
Our dog certainly has no problems eating serviceberries straight off the tree.
We had two of them that would pick blackberries off the vine from the back fence.
Photographic proof:
Train rails are paintd/ coated white in Italy. Not the tops, the sides. This was on all the “through” rails, not everything in the yard. Saw this throughout my recent trip from Rome to Vicenza and Venice. I suspect it’s to reduce temperature, warping or springing a rail due to solar heating.
My mom’s dog mostly settles for the mulberries that have fallen off of the tree. And then gets the runs when he eats too many of them (because the only quantity of eating a dog knows is “too much”).
@hogarth , not many people I’ve met are familiar with serviceberries. I’ve no idea why they’re not more popular: They grow very easily in a variety of North American climates (in fact, there are a lot of them planted as ornamentals), they’re at least as easy to harvest as any other berry, and they’re delicious.
And of course it would be impossible to paint the tops of rails, because the paint would be worn off by the first train to pass.
Black walnut trees don’t play nice with other plants. I learned this after my 60 year old asparagus patch started withering away and my peonies never came up this year. A Master Gardener from Penn State told me that blueberry bushes have to be kept 50 yards from black walnut trees.
I thought that was common knowledge. It is around here. If your vegetable garden isn’t thriving, look around for a black walnut tree nearby. They are death on tomato plants, too.
I didn’t grow up with black walnuts nearby so I had no idea what was wrong with my garden. Now I know. Looks like I’ll have to move my flowers around now.
Yah, all knowledge is local (but I can’t remember who said that). Didn’t mean it as a diss. I was just surprised because I forget we aren’t all from where I am from. Yes, you’ll have to rearrange your gardens because even if you cut the tree down, the roots will take a while to stop affecting the soil. I’m not suggesting you cut the tree down.
Good luck figuring it all out.
Today I learned about the first ever quadraphonic radio broadcast. In October, 1970, a live Grateful Dead show at the Winterland Arena was broadcast on two FM stations, KQED and KSAN, both broadcasting different simultaneous stereo mixes that you could listen to together with two stereo radios placed at a distance from each other.