A small spider on a dawn redwood cone. The animal’s web was stretched across to another branch.
And trapped in the web was a winged-form aphid.
This was a week ago, only a few buds had emerged from the tree.
E.O. Wilson says somewhere you can spend an entire lifetime voyaging around a single big tree and keep making discoveries.
Here, for instance, on the same tree, are the eggs of a Microcentrum genus angle-winged katydid.
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Trump’s criminal actions about the pandemic keep being revealed. His administration of criminals cited a retracted study on C-19 tests made abroad, using that as the reasoning for not accepting tests earlier. The lack of testing put bullets into the kneecaps of public heath efforts, leading to dead Americans. This Dr. Birx character was right there with him on this. With her recent interview, where she obscenely fawns over him — “so attentive to the scientific literature & the details & the data. I think his ability to analyze & integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit!” — she has forfeited any respect she once had.
T-Rump conveying his familiarity with the scientific literature on Friday: “You call it a germ, you can call it a flu, you can call it a virus. You know, you can call it many different names. I’m not sure anybody even knows what it is, but the children do very well.”
OK, enough with the moral and ethical garbage in DC. Here’s a Weill-Cornell MD on the front lines explaining what you can do to protect yourself, your family, and your community… AND not be fearful.
Backyard and Beyond 
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