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Who are these children who scheme and run wild? Who speak with their wings and the way that they smile? What are the secrets they trace in the sky? And why do you tremble each time they ride by?

runcibility

It appears that just like Gritty...

… the Untitled Goose is now a leftist icon:

(graphic taken from https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1175492642773200897)

In celebration of our apparently new SJW ally, I give you some handy graphics:

rorytelling

At this point “being a sjw” just means “liking things”

flamewarp

Those damn SJWS and their *looks at hand* “Geese”

urbanism

Stan socialist goose

baenling

i was confused about this so i googled it. there’s literally just a bit of text at the end of the game’s credits about how australia still belongs to the aboriginals. that’s it. that’s what they’re mad about.

“This game was made on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.

“Thank you very much for playing our videogame.”

glumshoe

Thanks for posting about the spotted lantern fly. I'm actually in the ground zero of where they entered the us. My family works in a vineyard next to the Martin Stone Quarry which imported the stone that had the original egg sack on them from China. We've been fighting to stay alive out here. If you have any questions I'd be glad to answer them the best I can. I don't know where you are irl but if they haven't made it to you yet be thankful. But if they do good luck

I’m in Indiana, so not yet, but it’s just a matter of time. How have they affected your area?

hakinnas-overactive-imagination

@glumshoe ,Sorry for the slow reply, it’s harvest season right now and things can be hectic. They slowly increased in number over the first few years then suddenly you couldn’t go 10 feet without seeing a dozen. We currently are having the lowest crop yields we’ve ever seen and we aren’t equipped to handle such low quantities of fruit. We normally can produce enough to have 200+ cases of our Rosé but, at best we’ve got maybe 30 cases if we can manage it. and right now that’s a big if. In general its rough. In the summer the sidewalks in town are littered with smashed red wings and ‘honeydew’ {read:the sap like dropping from the lantern fly} . The high school marching band would have a contest to see what section could kill the most without breaking formation (saxophone with 67 during a single practice if I recall). The only pesticides that seem to affect them are frankly horrible and kill all insect life that it comes in contact with. It’s so bad that you legally where only permitted by the government to use it twice a year due to its effects, but local farms and I suspect a few exterminators in the area have been given permission to use it more frequently. It helped a bit, and I could be paranoid but I haven’t seen any bees this year. Not even the carpenter bees that lived in our deck. The paper/mud wasps and hornets are still there, but even their hives seem less abundant. Normally they love harvest as the sugars in the grapes draw the yellow jackets, but I think I only saw one or two instead of the dozens that I’m used to. There also have been gradually less wild fruit as the lantern flies drain the sap and leave them open to mold before they can even properly produce.

A few local colleges are trying to study them, Penn state and the department of agriculture in particular are leading the efforts. They banded a lot of trees with sticky tapes and it works alright when they are still nymphs, but the adults just walk right over them. The best way we’ve found has been where they remove as many of the Tree of Heaven(Ailanthus), a highly invasive species it its own right and shared native favorite to spotted lantern flies, and leave only a handful as poisoned bait trees. Since they are one of their only predators in the us it’s safer. I can say first hand, it’s a strange sight to see a tree surrounded by a 2-3 inch deep carpet of dead lantern flies. It helps, but they just keep coming.

We were placed in a “voluntary quarantine” a few years ago, but you can guess how help full the voluntary part made it. large shipping trucks constantly move through our area. Their eggs just look like a splash of mud. And my family watched as a full adult sat on the front of our car and stayed there like it was nothing as we drove at highway speeds. I’m not going to lie and say it doesn’t scare the hell out of me. This one insect is the reason that the entire wine industry in the Koreas was nearly wiped out and we have less research and next to native predators to help fight back. If these reach any big fruit producing region I don’t know what we can do.

so yeah, If you see one kill it on sight.

(helpful tip, if you try to come at it from behind it will take off, but if it sees you coming from the front it accepts the inevitable)

glumshoe

The insect in question:

plantanarchy

Penn State Extension people talk about these guys like it is only a matter of time until they are everywhere simply because of their life cycle and how prolifically they spread. Don’t move your firewood, don’t buy Christmas trees from this area and move them out, don’t buy nursery stock from this area, don’t buy masonry or vehicles or basically anything from this area without careful inspection lol basically we fucked

The extension officer at the grower’s meeting last year talked about one picture she had seen in a lanternfly infested area of their fave host tree (Ailanthus) overhanging a railyard with trains that shipped all over. It’s only a matter of time.

This being the specific area (as of 2018 but I can’t find a more recent map). Berks County is specifically where it started as is still the worst. The isolated bit in Virginia apparently received stone shipments from the location where it started.

wulferson

i live right in the middle of the external quarantine zones and i can’t even begin to explain how bad it is

they were swarming downtown where i live (while i’m not at school) to the point that they completely covered the bases of four lamp posts, and there were hundreds (if not thousands) flying and hopping around

if you see one, kill it immediately

by the way, their egg sacks look like this:

scrape them off of trees and destroy them immediately if you see them, but just know they can be extremely hard to spot

julie-ghouls

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minecraft

nobody:

minecraft devs:

waterskies

Noodles

ankha85

New art blog!

follow me @barkybun for my art

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qndeldr

I still need to know what dog this is

ultrafacts

It is the Caucasian Shepherd Dog aka Russian Bear Dog. This picture below is just a PUPPY.

bubblegumdomme

Holy shit.

kaylamariiie1993

I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE NOW

ultrafacts

leadhoovesies

MOUSE

musical-dreamer-of-love

THE REAL LIFE CLIFFORD!

bayocake-deactivated20160731

Level 1

Level 17

Level 35

thespectacularspider-girl

I could literally ride this dog into battle.

and I would.

vancity604778kid

For anyone wondering, that last pic is another awesome breed called the Tibetan Mastiff :)

ultrafacts

Fun fact: Tibetan Mastiffs were often “paired” with Tibetan Spaniels. The Tibetan Spaniel is a natural-born tattle tale and would run along monastery walls to keep an eye out for intruders. Upon spotting someone suspicious they would go get the big dog.

ninjaspiderjuurouta

N O. Oh my God that is so cute

bugkeeping

sippy sip

shelovesplants

Red hummingbird moth❤

mellifexfarm

Pigeon Breeds: Lucerne

Lucerne pigeons originated in the 1800’s in Switzerland, from the Canton of Lucerne. They were formed by crossing Swiss and Owl breeds, and have a peak crest, grouse feathered legs, and bull eyes. Lucernes are separated into 7 sub-categories, all considered to be entirely separate breeds.

Gold Collar Lucerne (Luzerner Goldkragen)

Copper Collar Lucerne (Luzerner Kupferkragen)

Self Lucerne (Luzerner Einfarbige)

Shield Lucerne (Luzerner Schildtaube)

Tigerhead Lucerne (Luzerner Rieselkopf)

Elmer Lucerne (Luzerner Elmer)

White-tailed Lucerne (Luzerner Weißschwanz)

jesterbobester

HEAR ME OUT

what if cats were like a type of animal that is used as like a vessel for a demon and they always send demons up to have their own cat to terrorize people and such, but down in hell they don't know how small cats are or that they're domestic and nobody knows until they get sent out and they can't go back so they give up and just play along but some demons go REEE and that's why there's like crazy cats and really chill ones and h idk