A Competent Mango

Hi, I'm Kayci. I'm an artist. I appreciate sharks, jellyfish, and tea. Talents include getting high scores on color matching games. 23. Bi. She/her pronouns. If you need me to tag anything please let me know.

[moggiepillar]

Hey if you want to grow a veggie garden and want to repel insects without hurting the bees you can consider:

Flowers like marigolds and nasturtiums repel most insects.

Herbs like catnip and peppermint can also repel most insects. Do some research, there’s an herb for almost every bug.

Some natural insecticides don’t effect bees, like neem oil, bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki (usually just called btk but if you google that you get the serial killer), and certain insecticidal soaps.

And you can even do some googling and order live ladybugs or beneficial wasps to release into your garden.

It might seem like people pushing for less chemical use in home gardens are closely aligned with the ‘gmos will give you cancer’ crowd, but the problem with insecticides is not only do they kill the bees in your garden (which still adds up), but some of them, like neonicotinoids, can be carried back to the hive and kill the entire hive, and those numbers really add up. (Anecdote: It happened to a local bee keeper, entire hives of his just started dying in the middle of spring.) And please always carefully read the labels or ask around while shopping for any live plants, as harmful chemicals may have already been applied.

[rosemaryramblings]

Not-so-fun fact: in the state of California, 50% of pesticide runoff is from residential use. They other 50% (roughly) is agricultural. Homeowners are using as much pesticide as commercial operations, and that’s bad news for everyone.

Speaking from experience (and career), call your local nursery and ask for suggestions. 

Search “Integrated Pest Management [Your location]” or “IPM [your problem]” (like “IPM grasshoppers”). You’ll get a ton of (mostly scholarly) resources on controlling the problem that are heavy on non- or low-toxicity stuff.

Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (a cousin of btk) works on mosquito larvae, gnat larvae, and…not much else. It’s VERY targeted, and that’s delightful.

Even when applying insecticidal soaps and neem oil, if your aim is to keep the bees hella safe, do it as or after the sun goes down.

[montereybayaquarium]

It’s a baby bat ray brunch! Using plate-like teeth to grind and chew their sustainable seafood, these youngsters will grow quickly into their role as majestic sea flap flaps.

[colescrow]

Look at it’s little feet thingys

[charlieslowartsies]

when you don’t do a warm up and go straight into lineart and your hand does the thing

[timelord-named-the-artist]

Thats a sign of inflammation of the wrist called carpel tunnel . I had surgery because it got so bad I couldn’t draw anymore.

[charlieslowartsies]

Yikes D8. That’s why it’s so important to do stretches and draw with your whole arm (ok, arguably hard with a tablet versus a big gorgeous easel) and etc but I forgot today bc I am a moron and it was great

[sidneyia-deactivated20210826]

?????

people warm up to draw? like… how?

[kesslersymbolic]

not an artists but climbing hand and lower arm exercises;

trying to find more and better diagrams for other stretches but yeah it’s super important if your gonna be using your arms a lot.

[innercove]

@ruins-of-rin

[redlipstickresurrected]

Alexandra Levasseur (Canadian, b. 1982, Shawinigan, Qc, Canada) - L'effet Photon, 2016  Mixed Media on Paper mounted on Wood

[nevertoomuchtea]

me: gosh i love minimalist home decor

also, me: lives in a literal worm hovel™, my clothes chair is now a clothes mountain, i must cross the Dead Sea of Socks to reach my bed. books are stacked to the ceiling. i haven't seen the floor in a millennium.

[alionundermyskin]

Wanda Koop. 

[eatsleepdraw]

Duality

http://indiovana.tumblr.com/

[1000drawings]

To meet my friends  by SCHINAKO MORIYAMA

[meangirlnurse]

it’s impossible to  objectively describe what soup is

[meangirlnurse]

cereal with milk

[meangirlnurse]

i mean but soup can have solids in it too (veggies, meat, potato……)

why isn’t cereal a soup

[meangirlnurse]

ok this is actually the best answer i’ve ever gotten and i’ve been joking about this with people for y ears but

milk soup

[meangirlnurse]

some soups are served cold

[meangirlnurse]

sweet soups exist

[meangirlnurse]

good definition, but it technically does still include cereal

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

Doesn’t cereal refer to the type of grain it’s made out of? Which is why oatmeal is considered a hot cereal

[kerryrenaissance]

Yes, cereal refers to types of grain.

However, to muddy the broth further, many soups include cereal grains like oatmeal or barley as an ingredient.

[spikeghost-deactivated20240530]

soup discourse

[djbhfkjejieuihesowppw-deactivat]

fuck it lads! cereal is soup from now on

[lesstalkmoreillustration]

Owen Gent owengentillustration

Your Blissful Shadow

[lesstalkmoreillustration]

Check us out on Instagram: @Lesstalkmoreillustration

[freerenata-deactivated20180915]

[timplatt]

Given to a man on a train at 5:56pm

[f1rstperson]

This is me

[emobaria]

I want a buzzfeed quiz that shows me which Disney prince I’m gonna finger behind the churro stand based on my astrological sign

[avatarmerida]

Here you go

[officialnormfanblog]

reblog if you are a bird person who walks into petco like a fuckin owl on stilts, sniffing out discounted twigs and millet seed

[jdjdgray]

It’s good to bring older dogs to water so they can relax their arthritic joints and get a little exercise. Beautiful dog, smooth dog.

[strigays]

thats a fucking goat

[pastelbeau]

The Signs As Paramore Lyrics

Aries: “Tell me where our time went and if it was time well spent. Just don’t let me fall asleep feeling empty again.” - Pressure

Taurus: “She lives in a fairy tale, somewhere too far for us to find. Forgotten the taste and smell of a world that she’s left behind.” - Brick By Boring Brick

Gemini: “Somehow everything’s gonna fall right into place. If we only had a way to make it all fall faster everyday. If only time flew like a dove.” - Hallelujah

Cancer: “Where’s your gavel? Your jury? What’s my offense this time? You’re not a judge but if you’re gonna judge me, well, sentence me to another life.” - Ignorance

Leo: “Lost the battle, win the war. Bringing my sinking ship back to the shore. Starting over, we’ll head back in. There’s a time and a place to die but this ain’t it.” - Now

Virgo: “Where can I turn? ‘Cause I need something more. Surrounded by uncertainty, I’m so unsure. Tell me why I feel so alone. ‘Cause I need to know to whom do I owe.” - Conspiracy

Libra: “You made yourself a bed at the bottom of the blackest hole and convinced yourself that it’s not the reason you don’t see the sun anymore.” - When It Rains

Scorpio: “And the worst part is, before it gets any better, we’re headed for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize that I’m better off when I hit the bottom.” - Turn It Off

Sagittarius: “Creep past the hours like the shorter hand on the clock. Hanging on a wall of a schoolhouse somewhere. We wait for the bell and we dream of somewhere else.” - Daydreaming

Capricorn: “What a shame we all became such fragile, broken things. A memory remains just a tiny spark. I give it all my oxygen, to let the flames begin.” - Let The Flames Begin

Aquarius: “And now I’m told that this is life. That pain is just a simple compromise. So we can get what we want out of it.” - Misguided Ghosts

Pisces: “What a mess, what a mystery we’ve made of love and other simple things. Learning to forgive, even when it wasn’t our mistake.” - Part II

[studioghibligifs]

Studio Ghibli + Food