I can’t decide if it’s fluffy owl in a mask or a regular owl in an oversized wooly coat.

The list of mites was much more extensive than I had thought. Some things I thought may be mites also are not, like fleas and lice. It turns out scabies is caused by mites though.

I can enjoy a good look at bugs, but these ones that are so tiny swing back to creepy territory. You can’t observe much, it’s just more like air that can bite you or chomp on dead material.

Insects (or arachnids) one finds by surprise are definitely more freaky than ones you knowingly encounter! It’s like if you smack someone for giving you a jump scare when you wouldn’t on any other occassion. I give you a pass on the moth. 😜

I saw mite listed as a word for moth, but not where I could get where one would use that instead of papillon de unit.

We have pantry moths and clothing moths, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen in person.

For mites, I think of mites that one will find on plants, and also dust mites that the news tells us makes up like half the weight of your old pillows (ewww 🤢), and when looking up to see if there were other mites I know of, and wiki listed ticks (the ones that drink your blood) as being in the same “superorder” as mites. (There are a lot more levels of taxonomy than we ever learned in school.)

It is fun for me to try to come up with something creative now and then. I don’t think we often have to examine how a language works, so looking at one I can’t really speak, it makes my mind be a totally blank slate if I want to convey something, especially in a wordplay style.

There’s always some good etymology as well. “Butterfly of the Night” is a perfect name for a moth. In English, moth doesn’t sound like a pretty word, even though moths can be pretty. Broth, cloth, froth are the only similar sounding words i can think of, and those words are neutral at best.

I’m sure it has at least a little moth in it! 😉

Cet oiseau de nuit est au moins en partie un papillon de nuit… Il les trouve délicieux !

Always!

Good eyes! Are you part owl? 😆

Meet Mogwai, our incredible Screech Owl ambassador! Mogwai came to us as a fledgling with a congenital deformity that causes his upper and lower mandibles to misalign. Because of this he would not survive in the wild. Our dedicated rehab manager ensures his beak is coped regularly to correct the misalignment.

Coping a bird’s beak involves trimming and shaping it to help eat and function properly. Much like our fingernails, birds’ beaks constantly grow. In the wild, Mogwai’s misaligned beak would keep growing, making it impossible for him to tear apart food and eat properly. With regular coping, Mogwai can thrive and continue to charm and help educate all who meet him. Link

It is just all types of cute! 🥰

It took me a while to really appreciate them, but now I find them hauntingly beautiful. They are other owls in the genus that look different and have other colors, so they may be easier to appreciate, but now I love them all and I’d love to get to work with one.

Here’s an adult for reference.

It has worked really well for however many months now I’ve had the keywords, I’m guessing around 6 months. Since my list is all names, it covers anything with a possessive form. But when everyone’s moniker is from 3 to 5 letters, it seems one is eventually going to be part of another word.

You always go above and beyond on Summit, and it is a big influence on my enjoying Lemmy for so long now. I skimmed the roadmap thread yesterday and it looked huuuge, even though due me, the app is best perfect anymore. With this issue, you helped me solve what was going on in about an hour from the time of my post, and didn’t make me feel dumb when we found out what was going on. This is far from the first time you’ve helped me with something as well.

You and Summit are both amazing.

It is almost all of they were here for a reason… 🤔

😉

I’m just glad other people have been posting! 😊

Sharing stuff you like is the point of social media, isn’t it?

It is our former Owl of the Year, a White Faced Scops, for anyone interested.

Story from TheDrive

Looks like a key spoofer in an emulator shell.

Low quality video on BBC as well.

I’ve been tuning into Colbert more lately as he’s gotten a little more vicious after the cancelation news. I usually just watch Kimmel now and the Jon Stewart Daily shows.

Kimmel has been off for his multi-week summer vacation and it’s been just reruns the last 2 weeks, so not a shock his numbers are down. Seth Meyers looks to be having a nice boost too, larger %-wise than Colbert too.

Me when his wife… 😆

Plants can really be the unsung heroes to many types of life!

From the Sonora Desert Museum

Because many other species rely on them for sustenance and shelter, saguaros are a keystone species, a foundation of the ecosystem in which they grow. Birds, bats, tortoises, javelinas, coyotes, and others feed on their sweet, red fruit. Some birds carve holes high up as shelters for their nests. A saguaro boot forms as the inside of these cavities harden, and when vacated by the original residents they become home to other birds that move in. Humans, too, benefit from the saguaro. Many people, including the Tohono O’odham, Pima, and Seri, use every part of the cactus, eating or making syrup from the fleshy fruit, repurposing the boots as water containers, and using the wood-like ribs as building materials for roofs, fences, and furniture after the cactus dies and decays. The saguaro skeleton also makes a great home and resting spot for desert critters.

From April through June, white flowers with thick, waxy petals grow at the crown of the saguaro, and open at night when bats pollinate the flowers. Honey bees and other insects, white-winged doves, and some hummingbirds pollinate them the following morning. By June and early July, the red fruit mature and ripen. The small seeds germinate about a year later, but due to dryness and being a food source for animals, only 1% successfully sprout.

Lovin’ it!

Always a pleasure. 🦉