With you on this, only ever known shoes off bar the odd occasion where I’m there for work and will only be a few minutes. I ask of course before traipsing around!
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Something I did some time ago, but a bright image for dank winter days :)
You just drew something & I love it, creating something doesn’t have to meet mainstream standards, the act of creation is at the heart of art :)
A piano outdoors is a beautiful thing & I like this image for it’s simplicity - it makes you stop a moment :)
You’re so vain, I bet you think this meme is about you.
Not heard of them, thanks for the recommendation, that’ll be tonight’s listening sorted!
Listening to Tool right now, love 'Maiden but enjoy pre Bruce as much as the rest… NIN, Anthrax, Sick of it All, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Sepultura…must be some kinda metal chameleon circa 90s-00s!
Oh that’s Muffit! Enjoy a tipple on me! ;)
1·8 months agoI think there’s an element of media click bait and finger pointing to funding cuts to sell an otherwise mediocre story.
Something I picked up on at uni re commercial beeking practices is that the cell size is dictated by the farmer by providing a framework for the bees to build around and lay their eggs in (as well as store honey). This cell size is larger than the natural mean size. This results in larger adults that can then forage more and produce more honey. Great! Except that the bees spend longer as larvae and if there’s varroa mite present in the hive the adults come out weakened as the mites feed on the larvae for longer.
For me colony collapse disorder hinges around this, but I haven’t read about this subject in some years so don’t know if it has been discounted.
Very much so an economic problem, commercial honey production is a very intensive type of animal husbandry.
It should be noted that honey bees are not native to the US so are a wholly farmed animal.
The method of fully replacing colonies is one of the issues in commercial beekeeping as the genetic diversity is very poor because there aren’t enough different suppliers.
Edit - just seen someone else has said much the same
At least a decade. I did a small module at uni about a decade ago on colony collapse disorder and varroa mites were a prime culprit, alongside various viruses. Plenty of research already done then, but no concrete answer at that time.
This is hardly news per se, rather a typical attention grabbing media headline saying that they came to a conclusion what the cause was last year after 6 months, whilst blaming cutbacks.
Missed a trick there, should be reading James Herberts ‘The Rats’!
Go to Scotland and taste the joys of a deep fried Mars bar, now you’re talking!
This was his version of flossing, he had killer dance moves behind the decks.
They don’t exist without them though, and it is sometimes necessary to make a point to all companies and their sentient rulers by e.g. boycotting them, forever.
18·11 months agoSo they’re recycling…good on them…but there I was thinking they may be creating some Apple-PC steam punk mutant for some specialist market…
Probably a quicker option is to soak off all the soil, pick those with nice equal length roots then arrange against a cleanly cut block of earth. There’s no more radishes either side so you’d have to plant a fair few lines so you’d end up with one with such a neat row I reckon.