Leech that can survive extreme, extreme cold!in Clitellata
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https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0086807
This article talks about the extreme cold-tolerance of Ozobranchus jantseanus, a leech of freshwater turtles.
This leech can survive being frozen in liquid nitrogen (-320.8° F, or -196°C) for 24 hours. It can withsta...read more
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I discovered that if I cook milk just right, and then refrigerate it, that it gets a desirable vanilla-like taste to it. Very interesting. I cooked it on low or medium-low heat for a long time. Think like over 30 minutes. It was Gteat Value vitamin D milk.
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When you're out of ketchup for your hamburgers you can do any of the following things:
• Appreciate them without ketchup (not my personal favorite, but they are appreciable).
• Make your own make-shift ketchup from canned tomatoes, salt, vinegar, and something like onion greens.
• Instead o...read more
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Brownish gray grasshopperin Orthoptera
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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
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Immature two-striped grasshopper on tomato plantin Two-striped Grasshopper
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Here's a young two-striped grasshopper on a Chris Ukrainian tomato plant. This picture was taken today.
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Very ornamental grasshopperin Acrididae
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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
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Pill bug mythsin Malacostraca
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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
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• 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.
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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
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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
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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
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Variegated grape leafhopper parasitesin Variegated Grape Leafhopper
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List of parasites for this host:
* Anagrus erythroneurae
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http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/baking-soda-inflammation-autoimmune-diseases-05954.html
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Tourette Syndrome comorbiditiesin Human
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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
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Quail egg farmingin Coturnix
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
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Donkey milk and PANDASin Domestic Donkey
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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
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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/
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Nafanua: Saving the Samoan Rainforest, by Paul Alan Coxin Flying Fox
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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
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Farming bluefin tunain Actinopterygii
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Here's an article about the progress of farming bluefin tuna: https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2017/01/putting-bluefin-tuna-back-menu-farming/
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200128114638.htm
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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.
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Risks of eating reptilesin Reptile
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Here's an article about risks associated with consuming reptile products:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19679367
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Farming snakesin Snake
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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
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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
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