Michael Palmer
cosmopterix.bsky.social
Michael Palmer
@cosmopterix.bsky.social
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Retired botanist but doing #entomology on a wildfire impacted landscape in Oregon. INaturalist Ambassador. INaturalist handle @cosmopterix
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The other half is coming out of the wall in the adjoining room
Thanks! We are always trying to find a use for ours, beyond quince syrup. This year we are lightly candying and dehydrating some in hopes they can be a citron substitute for fruit cake
Do you wait until the quince turns fully yellow?
I have been really finding Discord useful for niche science stuff.
6-7 days is peak, to my taste
Or, “we hire ecologists so that they can teach intro courses”
I won't be attending the Entomological Society Meeting in Portland, but I might drive up for a day to bring bugs to several people (if the cost of driving is < postage). If any of you can use insects in EtOH from Oregon, and which I might have (see www.inaturalist.org/projects/mck...) let me know!
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I have quite a few semi double fuchsias. They don’t look like the single fuchsias though.
With no complaints from the rest of us
Ok, thanks! We just picked the last of our jalapeños and am eager to get started.
The annual home invasion begins!
#coleoptera I particularly like the vernacular name “halloween beetle”
Because that’s when they start appearing by the thousands
How long do you ferment prior to making salsa?
#fermentation
One of my favorite and well used kitchen gadgets is this inherited antique cabbage mandolin for sauerkraut
The parallel parking was so full that by the end, there was parking for ten ants only
“Many have deemed”
can be shortened to “is”
Thanks! Although I am in the land of dense leaf litter, our land was so highly burnt that we have very little above our mineral soil now.
A picture of some dirt. Litter Critter Getters, does anyone have any experience with flotation extraction of soil arthropods that doesn’t use centrifuges or chemicals harsher than epsom salts and soap? I am interested in expanding my limited repertoire of techniques.
My spider senses are tingling
Ok, thanks! It looks like you have early successes, and good luck with further development!
I have seen the footage of the brutality by which she was taking down and thrown on to the mud. The cruelty seems to be the point.
Where can I learn more about these traps?