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missimericka 2/n cc. Kanani Jason (Agriculture Specialist). The American fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) was first found in Africa in 2013, but has spread to 28 countries there. It causes significant damage to maize crops there; the fungal diseases it carries with it are also a danger. x.com/drlizamd/statu…

Sheep-guinea-fowl. cc.missimericka, Swaledale Mutton Co.

1/n Section of a photo I took of moss and lichen on a fence-post. Photo not great (blur) because wrong lens; I had only taken a wide-angle lens with me on my walk. I think the lichen is Cladonia asahinae, a.k.a. pixie cup lichen or Asahina's cup lichen. cc. missimericka

missimericka 2/2 How lichens are built: from themeaningofwater.com/2021/10/16/the…

missimericka I'll keep that in mind. youtube.com/watch?v=9DD7VI…

Happy #WorldDonkeyDay to the greatest of them all, Dommie!!! 👏🏻💙🐴

missimericka 7/n If having a dog increases blood flow in your frontal lobes, boosting forward-planning & complex thinking, then a donkey should do it even more so. Reifying the German phrase, "Eselsbrücke", = 'donkey's bridge', = mnemonic. SCIENCE! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… cc.missimericka

1/n #DIY, #projects: for making a leg mechanism for anything like a Strandbeest, semi-autonomous 'robot', etc., there are a number of different linkages, e.g. Theodore Jansen's linkage: cc.missimericka

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1/n Folks, to all of you who feel overwhelmed by the ghastlinesses in the world, who feel you need to do something about them, but feel so alone & small. I want to tell you & myself too, for I am one of you, about fireflies. I have fireflies in my garden. Loooong exposure photo:

I don't know who needs to hear this, but don't binge on Cordyceps. cc.missimericka

1/n You and I are eukaryotes, which means you and I have little organelles inside our cells, things like mitochondria. Around 2.2 billion years ago, one big bacterium engulfed a smaller one; instead of being digested, the smaller one became mitochondria. cc. missimericka:

Wait until you find out about the fungi. Arturo Casadevall Arturo Casadevall argues in his book, "What If Fungi Win?", that climate-change & mutation in fungi mean that the dastardly little buggers could become a far greater threat for us. cc. missimericka, Conor Browne

Arturo Casadevall missimericka Conor Browne In evidence of the thesis advanced by Arturo Casadevall Arturo Casadevall, in China two are found to have died of Rhodosporidiobolus fluvialis, a fungus that actually likes life at 37°C (98.6°F): thesun.co.uk/health/2928679…

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Massimo cc. missimericka above

Clive Hargrave uptoncountrypark Dorset Wildlife Trust cc. missimericka

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