Swallowtail

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Requiring students to cite work is pretty common in academic writing after middle school.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Most species of wasp are not aggressive towards humans. I work out in my garden a lot and almost never have encounters with aggressive wasps--the only time I really do is when yellow jackets create a nest in an area that I haven't been to in a while.

https://xerces.org/blog/wasp-world

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm having a hard time actually finding a source for this. Just a few poorly written articles that basically cite this video as a source. Something this potentially impactful seems like it would make the rounds more, so I'm very skeptical.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funny how the objections ITT are over the items that would cause people to have to reevaluate the ethics of their dietary choices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They're Amazon. They don't need the money

There's no such thing as enough money for big businesses like Amazon. Always gotta be growing to appease the shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm working on converting my entire yard to natives eventually, so I'll make sure to get a bunch of seeds or plugs for it when I do. Joe pye is so awesome. Absolute butterfly/bee magnet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Have any of you seen hollow joe pye (Eutrochium fistulosum) in the wild? It gets absolutely enormous, I've seen it 8-9' tall and supposedly it can exceed 11' in height. I want to get some for my garden but I suspect unless I really crowd it like it would be in its native environment, it'll get really tall and get knocked over by the wind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember wanting to be a forum mod when I was like 15 and thought that it would make me cool on the forum. As a grown adult... no way. I am so busy between work, grad school, and my personal life, I have no time for such silliness. I have a lot of respect for mods that donate their own time to run communities.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are native mice all over the place. Yes, some are introduced/invasive, but there are also plenty of native ones too. If you live in the Americas, here's the subfamilies they make up:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_rats_and_mice

Mice serve as food for animals like owls, hawks, falcons, snakes, skunks, etc. Cats killing these animals' prey makes it harder for them to find food.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Humans are not an invasive species. We migrated to everywhere we currently live. Invasive species are usually defined something along the lines of being a species that was introduced somewhere (by people) where it didn't previously exist and is harmful to its new environment. We meet the harmfulness part of the definition but not the introduction part of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What've persimmons got to do with it though?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As someone with a background in linguistics, my jimmies are indeed rustled.

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