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Making a DaVinci bridge out of a pile of wooden sticks

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There’s new evidence to support a decades-old strategy for preventing the tick bites that lead to all sorts of nasty diseases, including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

The remedy involves spraying your clothing with permethrin — a pesticide that’s chemically similar to extracts of the flowering chrysanthemum plant.

Back in the 1980s, the U.S. military conducted several tests on a synthetic version of the plant-derived pesticide. When it was shown to be effective in preventing the bites of insects and ticks, the military began to purchase uniforms for soldiers that are factory-treated with permethrin.

Now, many outdoor enthusiasts are converts, too.

To Repel Ticks, Try Spraying Your Clothes With A Pesticide Derived From Mums

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The World’s Fastest Growing Plants - WTF fun facts 

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Adam “High Note” Levine Sign: Pisces Wins: 3 Signature Move: Hitting the highest possible note for the longest possible time

Reblog if you’d want Adam Levine to be your Voice Coach and add why in the replies!

📸: Joseph Llanes

This is the money Patrick. Reblog so money will come your way

“I’m getting back in line.”

OKAY but i just reblogged this last night and guess what i got today from my workplace’s self-audit!

THANK YOU PATRICK FOR FREE MONEY

BLESS ME PATRICK

PATRICK I HAVE NEVER STRAYED YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVED YOU

@billshitposts

*rolls sleeves* aight dude lets get me some money

Can i just *Gets in line*…there

Y'all I reblogged this and got $240 in tips in one day at work so 🤔🤔🤔

Honestly I know it’s kinda silly…but weirdly… It does seem to work

Insect Hotels

Over 30% of solitary bee species are wood nesters, some spending up to nine months of their lives as larvae incubating in forest deadfall. Ladybugs hibernate over winter in stacks of twigs, and other beneficial creatures – like wasps, lizards, moths, hedgehogs, beetles, and dragonflies – love to find little nooks and crannies to hide from predators and the elements, at any time of year.

An insect hotel is ideally placed in a sheltered location, but still in the sunlight. Ants sometimes eat bee larvae, so a solitary bee hotel is best placed off of the ground. Often, a wire mesh is placed on the outside to prevent bird predation. Ideally, the surrounding area should host flowering and insectary plants, to provide food for the guests!

These natural habitats are often missing from a domestic or overly-landscaped garden, and are absolutely vital to the health of your plants, local life web, and for the pollination of your garden. Designing for your native wildlife is crucial for a long-term healthy, productive, and sustainable space. Good, ecologically-minded design also minimises the amount of work you have to do: for example, I find that when I practice companion planting with insectary Apiaceae-family plants, I never have an aphid problem, because predatory beetles abound, and they eat problematic insects before they get established. Creating balanced ecosystems is a form of biological pest control.

An insect hotel is easily made from twigs, wood, tiles, pinecones, bricks, bark, grass, and other natural or salvaged materials. The form can differ, depending on what sort of creatures you would like to attract, and your aesthetics, but it should basically be designed from a “bug’s eye” view of the world: research what your local species are and what they require in terms of a habitat, and then create it for them in a manner that appeals to your eye.

These are also excellent projects for kids: they are fun and easy to make, interesting to observe, and help foster an early understanding of biology and ecology.

#DIY #bees #insects #entomology #biomimicry #permaculture #kids #art

Pre-made insect hotels: North America / Europe

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#GivingBack: A Look Behind The Scenes – Meet the Crew that Keeps Our Firefighters Going

In the small town of Fort Klamath, Oregon, a unique group of youth gathered under a bright yellow tent at the High Cascades Complex fire camp. The wildfire, ignited by lightning, burned from August through October 2017 west of Crater Lake, Oregon. The youth are members of the Boxelder Job Corp Group based out of South Dakota. The youth come from all over the world including Congo, Ethiopia, Thailand and Kenya. As a reward for their high performance in school, the Jobs Corps invited these youth to participate in its summer program. The team traveled to wildfires across the United States to support wildland firefighters from the Bureau of Land Management and other agencies. 

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gorgeous converted bus tiny home

me as a seal: *slaps my soft shitty body* :3

Stunning Miniature Landscape Paintings on Mint Tins            

Colorado-based artist Heidi Annalise illustrates hypnotic landscapes inside mint tins, while showcasing the beauty of their color palette.  The impressionist paintings highlight Annalise’s love for the outdoors. Find them in their Etsy shop.          

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1111 multiplied by 1111 being 1234321 is the mathematical equivalent of white light dispersing through a prism to make a rainbow.

Ironbound Island off the coast of Maine, across the bay north of Acadia National Park. Built by hand out of wood and stone from the island and windows salvaged from old cabins on the mainland. 

Submitted by Jim Mahaffie