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The Insect Population Boom in 2010
Comments (13)Mosquitoes are a problem sporadically for us, but since we tend not to have the heavier rainfall many of you have been having, they're not much of a problem right now. We do have a huge platoon of dragonflies and damselflies who look for food relentlessly all day long and they love mosquitoes, and we have lots of birds (including Purple Martins) and bats that eat them too. I also put Bt 'israelensis' granules or dunks in all our standing bodies of water...like the rain barrels, the ponds, etc. Suzie, It can be very hard to identify caterpillars since there are over 300,000 species of Lepidoptera worldwide but Susan might be able to tell you what it is since she is into butterfly gardening. On the website linked below, there are additional links that identify known butterflies and moths of Oklahoma. If the damage to your shrubs rises to the level that you feel like you need to treat the caterpillar infestation, you can spray your shrubs with Bt 'Kurstaki' which is a toxin manufactured from a bacteria that specifically targets caterpillars. It is organic and won't harm anything other than the butterfly/moth larvae. It is easily found in stores and the products that have it as their active ingredient include Thuricide, Dipel and Safer Caterpiller Killer. In the veggie garden, I generally just handpick cats off plants because I have so many flowers there that attract butterflies and moths, and even desirable caterpillars like those of the Black Swallowtail, so I don't like to use Bt there. In an ornamental shrub bed, though, I wouldn't hesitate to spray with Bt if the shrubs had considerable damage. Anna, I'm in Love County and have not seen any decrease in fire ants this year (I wish I had), so I don't think the winter affected ours even though our low temps this winter went down into the single digits a few times. We had them all over the place beginning about late March and running through mid-May. Since the rain stopped in our county and the heat cranked up into the mid- to upper-90s, they've gone underground the last 2 or 3 weeks and I'm not seeing them as much, but I bet if it rained they'd pop up out of the ground overnight. I still find them in raised beds in the veggie garden when I'm digging or when I'm pulling weeds, and I still run over an occasional mound when mowing. I only treat mounds in the veggie garden and in my container-grown vegetables, the dog's fenced play yard, and the backyard where our granddaughter plays and I only use organic fire ant killers. We have almost 15 acres, so there's no way we could afford to treat all of it. In the past I have used some non-organic fire ant killers, but because we have a lot of edible crops in the form not only of vegetables but also fruit trees and berry crops, I've stopped using all nonorganic fire ant killers. We have oodles of native ants of all kinds, but the evil fire ants dominate the ant world at our place. We also have red harvester ants in and around the veggie garden, but I leave them alone because they are a food source for the horned toads and because they clean up the carcasses of dead insects. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Butterflies and Moths of Oklahoma...See MoreVancouver Real Estate Boom: Kitchen Detail
Comments (22)Really? Google "Italian basement kitchens" and you'll come up with lots of hits, including this one. I don't see any photos of a basement kitchen online, but I wouldn't expect to. The only time you'd take a picture of one is during a holiday meal. Aesthetics are not a big consideration. All the cabinets and appliances are usually cast-offs, from when the upstairs kitchen was remodeled, and the sink is usually just the laundry sink. These basement kitchens have a lot of uses. Remember, traditional Italian food is made entirely from scratch, often right from the ground or animal. So there are a lot of time-consuming projects involved that need extra space. And not all of them were women's work. Kids with little hands shucked peas, peeled tomatoes, cleaned field greens, or made teeny tortellini. The men often dealt with the meat, making sausage or putting up prosciutto or whatever. Women definitely handled the baking though. A holiday requires many, many desserts, not just one or two, and enough cookies and sweets to pass out to the whole neighborhood. Italians in Italy of course do not have basement kitchens. I think traditionally, being in a warm and sunny climate, they handled these large projects like my aunt did--outside at a big table with the whole family gathered around doing fiddly work....See MoreIs your hometown just...BOOM, back to almost normal??
Comments (46)Justerrilynn, we had a similar incident early on. My husband's coworker tested positive, and the person from whom she believes she was infected died in April from the virus. He was a policeman. I hope your husband, his coworker (and you!) are all OK. That set a tone for my family. We self-quarantined strictly for 2 weeks, and since then have taken the attitude that masks and distancing are our responsibility. We are all healthy, do not have medical issues, and are not considered high risk. (Me, perhaps... by age but I don't have any conditions.) If we get or have had the virus, we would likely recover. But if "essential" workers who serve me food, bag my groceries, etc. all are required to wear masks, then I'm going to wear one, too. Just out of decency and respect. People can call me a sheep or fear monger or whatever term they're using to justify their own actions. My young adult kids have been socializing with friends outdoors, and I'm not always there to monitor them. But I've at least set an example and hope they're being mindful. (I believe they are, and we talk about it.) Moving forward, I will fully support businesses who enforce their employees and customers to wear mask and practice safety measures. I have been especially pleased with Costco, Trader Joe's, Aldi and a local meat market--which has been going above and beyond despite some of the clientele who I suspect would otherwise choose not to abide. There are many businesses, though, that I'll stay away from permanently. Simply because in observing their measures, it's difficult to tell what phase we are in because so little is being enforced. (And this applies to some friends and acquaintances, too, unfortunately.)...See MoreQuestion for those with a gas range - Oven gas odor?
Comments (32)Yes, of course, gas ovens turn the burner on/off throughout the baking process to maintain the target temperature, so the flame continually turns off and reignites as needed. Some ovens years ago may have had a modulating thermostat that moderated the flame up/down to hold the temperature steady instead of turning fully on/off but that's likely rare to non-existant nowadays. (Some gas clothes dryers years ago also used the modulating method, such as Kenmore "soft heat" models.) I don't think it's oxygen in the oven cavity causing the gas odor and boom. O2 is required to burn gas and is present to the same concentration both inside and outside the oven cavity whether the door is opened or not. Ovens are not airtight. I suspect it's the thermal effects from introduction of a large volume of cooler room air into the oven via opening the door which is contributing to the effect ... similiar to a refrigerator or freezer door being difficult to re-open for several seconds after being opened....See More
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