happybadger [he/him]

I’m considering applying this to my plant science research. In response to drought stress we observed that the tree became -3 smaller marijuana. Accelerometer data reflects the impact of this change in biomass, with hotdog levels variably +2 to +5. We demonstrate that as the tree becomes smaller marijuana it also becomes bigger hotdog.

Me screaming that Fred Rogers had a preeminent jazz pianist improvise every episode’s theme song to no one in particular.

They had hundreds of animals and no staff ecologists. They had 1 veterinarian. Instead of having paleontologists on staff, they had a big game hunter. All their biologists worked in the lab. They built everything like theme park rides because automation kept labour costs down and made secrecy easier.

Me screaming about urban park design to no one in particular.

All dinosaurs looked like beavers of varying sizes and lengths.

[wabi-sabi] [habitat]

Real motherfuckers leave dead organic material in their landscape.

I just got one of the current strains. It felt just as bad as the ones in 2020. Vaccination is totally warranted.

It’s a shame that it’s honeybee research. In Colorado one of our major pollinator ecology issues is that honeybees aren’t native and our 842 species of native bees have to compete with them during the three snow-free months. The apiaries doing better negatively impacts the broader goals of my pollinator gardens. Those native species are the rapidly dwindling ones we can’t replace commercially.

So jealous. In Colorado they’re all up alpine logging roads that I can’t access in my car. There’s only one good hike I do for them.

While it’d be nice to have an alternative to the crushing hopelessness of an AED, I would hate to do this in an ambulance for several reasons.

If you could get a picture of the full thing, golden chanterelles have a really unique trumpet shape that’s vaguely similar to oyster mushrooms. They should have gills running about halfway down the stem which you can easily pull off and a fruity smell.

If they are chanterelles, save a few of the largest. You can either cut them up and put them in a bucket of water with 4% sugar added or put them on a piece of paper for a few hours, collect the spores, and put those in a bucket with the sugar water. Leave the bucket to sit for a few days for the mycellium to start growing into a liquid culture, then you can pour the contents of the bucket around trees that it associates with, in this case hardwoods and pine/birch. Your trees will be healthier and the mushrooms should start fruiting there within a couple years. I always expand the habitat of ectomycorrhizal fungi when picking them.

Puffballs should be easy to positively ID too

I don’t forage for them. When they’re young they taste great but they’re easily confused for young death caps. When they’re old you risk dislodging the spores and they’re super toxic. Only mushrooms that are really morphologically distinct are safe foraging unless you’re using a guide and going through the list of every distinguishing feature.

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.