Animal

Here's another species of grasshopper in our garden. This is one of the kinds that is often found on roads and dry soil. when mature (this one isn't mature), they make a sound when they fly, and they have black with yellow shown on their open wings. I saw a similar adult on our property, today, ...read more

Here's a young two-striped grasshopper on a Chris Ukrainian tomato plant. This picture was taken today.

I'm trying to identify a cool grasshopper that frequents our property, although it's not the dominant kind by a long shot. It looks a lot like, and may be, Schistocerca shoshone, the green bird grasshopper, or green valley grasshopper. They are huge, though. They probably get over three in...read more

So, I was thinking today that pill bugs have a lot of legs. I figured they must not be insects. So, I looked them up to find out what they were, and Wikipedia says they're crustaceans. Then I found the following article: https://www.thoughtco.com/fascinating-facts-about-pillbugs-4165294 It...read more

• https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/guide-to-chicken-parasites/ • https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/guide-to-chicken-parasites-part-2/ The above links tell about all sorts of chicken parasites, both external and internal, respectively. parasite_

https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/37RHucXpQICZQPmJdoIzTg.Jmsiuod6nQcp_qpQ6pRl_x The above link has three videos (you may have to swipe to see the other two) of some large hornets or wasps I found on 27 Jun 2018. These wasps seemed interested in the tomato and watermelon plants, but especia...read more

Wikipedia says the ketogenic diet can help reduce seizures in some children with epillepsy, but it says the benefits don't always go away after discontinuing the diet (I'm paraphrasing). I hadn't heard that before: "Around half of children and young people with epilepsy who have tried so...read more

https://www.argusobserver.com/users/login/?referer_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.argusobserver.com%2Fvalley_life%2Fchukars-adapt-to-new-learning-environments%2Farticle_6ad12934-8cb6-11ea-b477-77cc837acee1.html%3Fsave_asset%3D6ad12934-8cb6-11ea-b477-77cc837acee1 Yeah, I thought this was about birds, b...read more

List of parasites for this host: * Anagrus erythroneurae

http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/baking-soda-inflammation-autoimmune-diseases-05954.html rat_ autoimmune_ inflamation_ baking_soda

Here's an interesting article about Tourette Syndrome comorbidities, anxiety, and mood disorders: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/03/123666/mood-anxiety-disorders-common-tourette-patients For those who don't know (since I would have appreciated a definition some years ago), a comorbidity is wh...read more

https://thepreppingguide.com/quail-farming/ Here's the cached page: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CRrtUM3WYNsJ:https://thepreppingguide.com/quail-farming/+&cd=19&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=ubuntu The above linked article talks about the viability...read more

Here's an article about a family who runs a donkey dairy. It talks about how the family believes it cures and/or treats PANDAS: https://okcfox.com/news/local/donkey-milk My guess is that the milk is raw, and that it contains live cells from the donkey, which help to train the immune system...read more

Check out this article on attempting to bring back extinct animal species: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-have-reconstructed-the-genome-of-a-bird-extinct-for-700-years/

I got this book for a college class. It talks about flying foxes a lot. So, if you're into flying foxes, I would recommend it. It's a personal narrative (which in this case is a lot like a novel, but true). I don't have the book anymore, but I enjoyed it. It's about a scientist whose mother h...read more

Here's an article about the progress of farming bluefin tuna: https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2017/01/putting-bluefin-tuna-back-menu-farming/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200128114638.htm regeneration_ axolotl_

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See this article entitled, 'Elephants Help Zebras Coexist with Cattle', July 29, 2008: https://www.conservationmagazine.org/2008/07/elephants-help-zebras-coexist-with-cattle/ It's pretty interesting. elephant_ zebra_ dung_

Here's an article about risks associated with consuming reptile products: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19679367

Here's an article about the viability of farming snakes for meat: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/asian-snake-farms-conservation-curse-or-sustainable-enterprise/55920297BFED7418BDB7D82C89936112/core-reader

See this article: https://thecounter.org/case-against-octopus-farming-cephalopod-aquaculture/ In essence, farming carnivores, such as octopi, may cause depletion of the fish they eat (which in some cases may be entirely wild-caught). Also see this similar article about farming European eel...read more

Eel meat is getting progressively more popular in the USA. So, I thought I'd let you all know something. Freshwater eels, must lay their eggs in the ocean, in the wild (and they must also hatch and develop there). Even farmed eels come from young, wild-caught eels. They do not breed these eel...read more

I laughed a surprising amount at some of these: https://www.rd.com/jokes/thankgiving-jokes/turkey-jokes/ Sorry for the obstructive ads there.

I finally discovered what the dark-headed sparrow-like birds that come on our property probably are: Dark-eyed Juncos (the Oregon-type)! Also, the yellow-eyed blackbirds we have are possibly Brewer's Blackbirds. We have yellow-headed blackbirds, too. Here's a list of some more, in no parti...read more