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POPSCompost Pile Friends they may not look nice but they are big helpers (most of the time). However, if you are concerned about the food web in your compost pile "breaking out," try the following tips: 1. Create a barrier by spreading a line of wood ash (not barbecue ash because of fat residues) or crushed egg shells around your compost pile. This will keep the activity contained within the pile. 2. A similar, but more lethal technique, is to sink small margarine containers full of stale beer, molasses and water, or yeast and water in the ground around the compost pile. Unsuspecting slugs, sow bugs, and earwigs will be attracted to the liquid, crawl inside, and drown. Earwigs can be sprayed with a solution of one tablespoon of liquid soap detergent combined with one quart of water. This will kill the earwigs that are doing damage and spare the helpful bugs that are eating dead organic material. (information from California Integrated Waste Management Board)
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POPSLadyBug Lore At one time, doctors would mash up ladybugs and put them in a cavity to cure a toothache. Some people believe that the number of spots on a ladybug indicates how many children you will have If you find a ladybug in your house in the winter you will have good luck.
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POPSborgles Under Michel Maharbiz at U of California, funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Cyborg beetles: Remote flight and directional control
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POPSOur Stone Age Ancestors Wore Garish Coloured Clothes He added: 'We were looking to find when the cave was occupied, what was the nature of the occupation by those early hunter-gatherers, where did they go hunting and gathering food, what kind of stone tools they used, what types of bone and antler tools they made and how they used them, whether they made beads and pendants for body decoration, and so on. 'This was a wonderful surprise, to discover these ancient flax fibres at the end of this excavation project.' The researchers also found remains of animal hair, skin beetles and moths.
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POPSBuild a Beneficial Bug House For those of you who are gardeners, you know the benefits of having a diverse population of insects in your yard. Encouraging beneficials into your garden also helps eliminate the need for chemical pesticides. Giving the beneficials a place to stay helps ensure you will have plenty of protection against those ‘other’ bugs that like to eat up all your hard work. Don’t worry about attracting wasps, yellow-jackets or hornets, they build their own nests and will leave this one alone. This is more for the over 3,500 species of solitary bees http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/nativebee.html . Without these bees we would not have seed set or fruit formation. So, please, do what you can to help. Here’s where the plans are: http://www.instructables.com/id/Beneficial-Bug-Houses/
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MORE: Orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatu) The Hymenopus coronatu, aka Orchid mantis, is a variety of flower mantis usually found in Malaysia and Indonesia. Doesn’t the mantis pictured look just like an orchid? They hide in the flowers they resemble, waiting for other delicious insects to alight. (Photo by: Paul F. Wagner) Hercules Beetle (Dynastes Hercules) A species of rhinoceros beetle that lives in South America, the Hercoles Beetle can grow to over 6 inches in length (counting its horns), but its claim to fame is its strength: it can support 850 times its own weight on its shell! This beetles eats only vegetation and is not aggressive, except to other Hercules beetles, when males fight each other over females. (Photo by: Tomas Libich) Giant Camel Spider (Arachnid Solifugae) Perhaps we would never --or rarely-- have heard of such a creature if it was not because of the tales and photos the United States Servicemen in the Persian Gulf War and afterwards the Iraq War car
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POPS10 Most Bizarre Species Names I saw the Harrisonfordi name on some other website, and after a google search to verify it, I came across this page. My favorite HAS to be the Carmen Electra one...it's brilliant! Share your favorite in the comments :D
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POPSJumbo cane toad dined on seafood Found this one up the road a bit. 500gms is about a pound. Very adaptable, seafood is not normally part of the diet. Hope the black snakes work out a way of eating them, without being poisoned.
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POPSYou mean it's not moths? How to control carpet beetles ARRRRGH! We've been seeing these little things around our apartment for ages, but {{Spiritualmonkey}} said, based on conversation with an exterminator back when he was working as a handyman, "Oh, don't worry, they're harmless." Like heck they are! It sounds like they're the reason I've been noticing holes in most of my woolens!! Yo, monkey, you are SO on vacuuming duty. Like, daily. Grr.
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POPSLurve Bug lol- happy valentines day!!!....ya gotta wonder- they look a little crunchy
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