"Small human, do you wish to know about parasitic wasps?"

More stereotypically, I'm a single gay man (and NOT actually a parasitic fern puppeting a meat suit) and I have very little nurturing instinct.

Plenty of tell children about nature in all its gushy, gorey, glory instincts though.

The Hill has 95% reporting with Yes on 51.1% and No at 48.9%, so very unlikely to switch back at this point.

If it is not broke, don't fix it...

Also, with animals on iNaturalist the number of pictures to look through for one that would actually improve the article can be a lot of work.

I don't know how much of it stuck, but CheswickChap and I rewrote Apple about two years ago. And I did a bunch of cite fixes on Peach. But my fingerprints are all over the place now.

Penstemon discolor - Wikipedia

Yet another semi-obscure plant today. I think this is new article #133

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penstem...

A fairly white thistle head at the top of a stalk with many thorny buds and leaves underneath it and a blurry background of other wildflowers and trees. Near Gothic, Colorado above Jud Falls.

I think I only have a white one that I have not identified in my recent-ish photographs.

The paintbrushes are hard. Even when I key them out I'm left wondering at least a quarter of the time.

Eokochia - Wikipedia

Once again, apparently there are things happening elsewhere that maybe I don't need to know about...

Hey, who wants some good plant news? Buncha nerds at a botanical garden in Italy reintroduced a rare plant to the island of Ischia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eokochia

Getting a new king is just like "after the revolution". The king not really being a real person to them, but the concept of the world reordered the right way around.

I agree. All my favorite X-files episodes were the monster of the week and not the arc stories. It is not that negative continuity is required, but an episode standing mostly on its own seems to work really well for shows and movies.

I think you are right for inside human facilities, but that leaves quite a bit of the world where other shapes will be found to be optimal. Frex: Fruit picking/field world where spreading out the weight and not having giant feet/tires might make multiple legs ideal.

Looking at a combo of the leaf shape and the flower color, I think this is the cultivar named 'Red Mountain', a Delosperma hybrid.

The only non-creep use I can think of is making videos of nature hikes. And that is an awfully specialized use.

Preserved orchids show pollination has fallen 60% since the 1970s Orchids aren’t just beautiful or rare – they’re ecological time capsules that offer clues to the long-term health of ecosystems.

Research using Australian herbarium specimens shows orchid pollination has fallen 60% since the 1970s.

The “declines in pollination are most pronounced in orchids that rely on specialised pollinator interactions”

#orchids #nativeplants #pollinator #conservation

theconversation.com/preserved-or...

Won't! I've seen the world after April.

Now much improved! And with good news! Additional populations located and plants reintroduced to the island where they'd become locally extinct.

And nightwatch is really a lot more about disaster than break-ins. A water pipe break in the middle of the night is *terrible*.

And even if there was a break in I was not expected to *do* anything, just call for help.

Speed is just a way to have a contest for the designers that is entertaining for the spectators. Also simple.

I agree, and I've also been a night watchmen so it is probably why my mind goes there. It is not a physically demanding job, but it is badly paid, but necessary to have a watch for fire, flood, etc.

Walking around inside remote installations that are human accessible with stairs and doors looking for problems so a human does not have to live at the remote installation. Dams and closed mines come to mind.

The only real world use I'm aware of for one of the dog-bots is to walk around inside the turbine room of a remote dam (in Italy, I think) looking for problems.

As much as I hate your puns, let me pick up the gun for the test to draw its fire. Not that I'm some sort of horrific plant revenant pretending to be a human, I'm wearing very good armor. yes.

@archive.org Is an amazing resource. And it suffers by being stuffed with garbage by spammers that the library has never done anything about. Over and over I search for plants in the book archive only to get massive number of returns of a "book" by a cancer cure scammer.

More seriously: shows, movies, tie in comics, should all be like a buffet of fun. Having too much tied together means people cannot casually dip in and out for the items they want off the menu and skipping dishes that do not appeal.

This also. But, I'm a fan of negative continuity. (Too much) Logic between episodes is a funpire that should have a bottle of ginger beer shoved up its fundament lest it drain away the cool. Join with me in the chant of, "Death to the Universe Bible!"

The fact that it is called the MCU is part of what went wrong. Allusions to other stories are cool, but when staying true to a master plan becomes a priority most fiction becomes less fun and less interesting.

Eokochia - Wikipedia

I corrected it and learned about the rare plant Eokochia saxicola, the only plant in its genus. The article needs work though.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eokochia

Strombolicchio - Wikipedia

But this lead me to the article on the real island of Strombolicchio, a wide rocky pillar. And there was a bad link about a rare plant on the island, Bassia saxicola which linked to the genus article.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strombo...

Die Toteninsel, third version by Arnold Böcklin. An island of tall upright gray slabs of stone forms a sheltered central flat area with a landing stair filled with the upright pillars of narrow cypress trees. A figure in white is approaching the island in a boat and there are tombs carved into the rocks. The sea surrounding it is mirror flat and calm.

Everything is plants (to me).

I was interested in the painting "Isle of the Dead" (Die Toteninsel) by Arnold Böcklin and wondering if the trees would be poisoned by salt water. Possibly not because there are some small islands with trees on them in the Mediterranean.