happybadger [he/him]

Quality into Quantity Time

Feel like shit just wanna consume too much caffeine and nicotine and write about urban ecology like it’s an eldritch religion.

I’m not saying I’ve never covered myself in feathers and sat naked in a tree waiting for birds to feed me. I’m not perfect, no one is, we’re all on a journey of learning and improving. Growing a termite on your back just seems like it’d take so long before it would trick the termites.

That must have been such a wild evolutionary arms race. I wonder how it even began.

Ontologically silly-ass

I take pride in poisonin’ myself and my family as much as I poison my land and biosphere.

I’d wager it’s some Hypogymnia sp. with the way the ends look.

Pleurotus ostreatus is a fantastic culinary species. Sauteed for six minutes they’re very similar to crispy pork.

Very jealous. They’re so hit-or-miss in Colorado. I’ve only seen a couple in years of foraging.

the only candidate who didn’t defend paedophiles

For what it’s worth, they and other livestock love mycelium from culinary species like Pleurotus ostreatus. The substrate is healthy myceliated straw/grain with the complex carbs predigested by the fungi and it has immune system benefits for them: https://openagriculturejournal.com/contents/volumes/V17/e187433152305260/e187433152305260.pdf

My ideal homestead revolves around multi-tiered green recycling using them. The fungi break down the garden waste that the chickens won’t eat, the unproductive mushroom colonies go to the chickens and pigeon towers, the manure and eggshells go into the vermicomposter and garden. Those mushroom colonies are a major cash crop with a myriad of health benefits depending on what you’re growing.

I can’t tell if this manmade horror beyond my comprehension is more of a Warhammer 40k space marine or a Trench Crusade monster.

the person spraying drinking water and carcinogens on their lawn so they can spray piss on it and make green concrete and look like a psychopath to their neighbours

the person allowing dandelions to bring deep soil nutrients to the surface and clover to fix nitrogen in their biodiverse native lawn with natural rain capture features

We should all aspire to be more like bees.

Your daily reminder that cicadas are edible and he only looks that ripped because he had quality bug protein: https://health.osu.edu/wellness/exercise-and-nutrition/cooking-cicadas

mom never lets me play Introduction to Random Signals and Noise. I’ve beaten Environmental Plant Physiology so many times and even got 100% on soil pH challenge mode.

Nature designed this creature to receive scritches.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/02/snakes-act-ecosystem-engineers-seed-dispersal

(rattle)snakes as pollinators are greatly underappreciated. Their stomach acid doesn’t destroy the seeds contained in the stomachs of their herbivorous prey.

Can you get a photo of leaf damage and/or the underside of the leaves? To me they look like a spider mite species but I don’t see webbing that typically forms on the underside of the leaves. Alternatively, do they scrape off easily or adhere to the surface?

Regardless of the species you need to clean the leaves. Wipe both sides down with a paper towel covered in dish soap, ideally spray the whole thing with neem oil.

A pilot clinical study showed that DBSLH immediately improved walking in two participants with incomplete SCI and, in conjunction with rehabilitation, mediated functional recovery that persisted when DBSLH was turned off.

It’s awesome that the effect persists even without active stimulation. The body seems to relearn those neural pathways.