Food Delivery and bad weather
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Comments (8)Becky: Welcome to the forum and by all means plan to come to the Fall swap on October 5. We get together twice a year at Oak Mountain State Park in Birmingham. Everyone brings an assortment of plants, pots, seeds, garden ornaments, anything garden related. Be sure all plants are potted if possible and clearly labeled. We'll be posting lists of things we have to swap and things we want so people can arrange some swaps ahead of time if they want to, but a lot of trading is just done after we arrive. We'll also start a thread for planning dishes to bring for lunch. You'll enjoy lots of plants, nice people, good food, and fun. Go back to the Alabama forum and look for the thread that's already going about plans for the Fall swap....See MoreDelaying BF emergence with bad weather coming?
Comments (5)Hi Shannon, With the color change its way too late to delay the eclosion of the adult. So I'd let it eclose naturally and keep the adult in a dark secluded place for at least several hours to let the wings fully dry. The easiest from here is to feed it and put it outside in a sheltered place on its own. They survive bad weather on their own naturally all the time. Otherwise the best solution is to feed it and put it in a glassine envelope with the wings folded over its back and lay it on the shelf in your refrigerator that is the warmest. This will slow its metabolism and keep it calm. You'll have to feed it regularly, how often depends on how long you plan to hold it before you release it, but at least once a day. Personally I prefer to feed them highly deluted honey water. A cotton ball in a small lid (gallon milk jug lids work fine) covered with screen or fine mesh cloth and soaked with the solution works well and will not let the solution get on the body or wings (you can hold it all together with rubber bands). Very lightly hold the adult by the closed wings and touch its legs to the cotton ball. It will take hold, and when you see it's proboscus probing the cotton ball you can let go and it will usually stay there feeding for several minutes. When it looks like it has slowed down on feeding and is getting more active, carefully take hold of the wings and gently lift it off the feeder (be patient and don't force it - a little pressure will cause it to eventually let go). Put it back in the glassine envelope and your refridgerator until the next feeding or release. A note on handling adult butterflies... with care it does not hurt them at all to be handled. A very light touch will work fine if you master it, but special weak tweezers are sold for doing it as well. You can also make a serviceable tool with an old wooden cloths pin and two 1/2"-3/4" X 2"-3" strips of light cardboard (like cerial box cardboard, etc). Glue the strips to the inside of the jaws on the clothespin so they extend the length of the jaws, and grasp the wings with the very end of the cardboard. If they don't have enough grip at the end, cut a little off the end until they do. Lep tweezers and glassine envelopes are a couple of supplies that even a hobbyist should keep on hand. The tweezers can be obtained from entomological supply houses (like BioQuip, Carolina Biological, Ianni, etc); the envelopes from the same or stamp and coin shops, etc. Neither are expensive. Lep triangles can also be easily made in several sizes from wax paper. A year or two ago I posted how to make and fold them with pictures and sizes. Keep in mind the adult does not live that long, so after 2-3-4 days it should be released. HTH, Larry...See MoreI hate bad weather. Do you?
Comments (18)I don't mind it a little interesting, but I prefer that it stays just this side of dangerous. I love to watch lighting. I get disappointed when the storms just miss us... like they did today. We got rain and some wind gusts, but nothing serious. Today I was glad of that, really, because I was out and about. We don't have a basement either. I grew up in Ohio and as a young child was affected by tornadoes three times. I have vivid memories of being carried from our mobile home by a fireman down a hill and under the bridge of train tracks. When we came back, most of the homes on our street of the mobile home park were turned upside down. Ours was the only one standing! I was maybe 5 y/o. Still, it doesn't scare me. The opposite, I take it in stride. We had a friend of DS's spend the night once when the tornado siren went off. In the blink of an eye he was in the back of our coat closet in a ball, while the rest of us were just waiting and watching the news. We didn't even realize it, just looked around wondering where he went. Oh, it was too funny! He was 13! We were laughing so hard we had tears in our eyes! Never let him forget it. It's still funny to think about. He is a big, strong kid, too. Football and baseball player... the kind who's not afraid of anything. LOL!...See MoreSnowy days - bad weather past-times........for quilters
Comments (10)We have snow here in Portland Oregon too! We didn't have any last winter & hardly ever get much. So the TV stations are going crazy. We did go out in it early this morning since we have a veterinary hospital with boarders & patients we don't get a choice & that's why we live very close! It's very pretty but has slowed way down now. Since we never believe them when the threaten this weather I had to go out & insulate my spickets this morning & add some more bedding to my feral cat's house & defrost the humming bird feeders. I'd love to hold up in my sewing room but I have a bunch of house cleaning to do first, wah! I'll definatley save the puzzle, thanks Bill...See MoreDebby
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