Have you noticed that some things just seem an up hill battle, things get lost in the post, people don’t get back to you so you are chasing, plans fall through, you run out of money, whilst some things just seem to pan out smoothly, everything dropping into place, the right people...
Once in a while, tropical biologists get bot flies. We sometimes find this out while were are in the field. But on five occasions, my students have returned to the US, and then discovered that they are hosting a bot. They all contacted me for advice. I told them a few things, but ...
and the intermittent series has taken in William Golding’sLord Of The Fliesand Frank Herbert’sDune.This time he attaches his compositional nous to Alan Garner’s 1967 award-winning children’s book. At the risk of repeating myself, only with different words...
A jet flies beneath a daylight crescent moon. My camera-ready husband took this remarkable photo from our back yard. We have snow here. . .but it’s manageable My husband is the snow manager. . . . . .coming and going. Touch of fog. . . ...
• Tick-borne deathly red-meat allergies may affect hundreds of thousands! That’s one way to cut back on meat consumption—and by the way, did I call it or what? Now, if only some feisty ecoterrorists could port that trait into mosquitoes and horseflies… • Irony of the week: St...
etc. You eventually run out of things to talk about and you secretly wish that one of you would spring ahead 5 miles so that you could just end the game. But Jasper has always been pleasant to me. It’s his second time on the trail. He’s from Japan and flies over just for the...
Finally,it flies down to get the animal.Owls have special,soft feathers(羽毛),so they can fly without making any sound.Owls are such good hunters that they can even catch a fly in the air! The owl is quiet most of the time,except when you get too close to its...
I give away most of the flies and restart a fresh box. It’s an excuse to spend time at the vice, make a few adjustments to the patterns to hopefully add to their triggers and functionality – I’m well-known for tinkering so there maybe a few weird creations and one or twostolen,...
If the best solution to global warming, topsoil loss, water shortages and safe food production involves sending large herds of hoofed animals back to tromping through the landscape in a way that takes carbon out of the atmosphere and puts it into the soil naturally, then it would “behoove”...
Our room was full of flies on arrival & although we made reception aware, it took approx 6 hours for them to send someone to check this. In that time we discovered that the flies were coming out of the sink basin overflow & we had to stuff i...