NO WAY!
What are they thinking of doing to the Poison Spider thing near Moab?
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NO WAY!
What are they thinking of doing to the Poison Spider thing near Moab?
Already sent my comments to the planning process. If you want, I'll find it again so
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What are they thinking of doing to the Poison Spider thing near Moab?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:01:21 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
What are they thinking of doing to the Poison Spider thing near Moab?
We have poison ivy, giant hogweed and asian hornets in Munich now. Makes
the occasional enduro ride much more interesting because
(military/railway) police, neighbourhood groups, environmentalists, dog owners and shepherds have gotten a bit lame recently.
Get a life, snowflake! ;-)
On 04/22/2021 12:31 AM, Volker Bartheld wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:01:21 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:Long ago my daughter got a miserable case of poison oak. A steroid shot followed by tablets to taper off fixed it really fast. Do you have such things in your country?
What are they thinking of doing to the Poison Spider thing near Moab?We have poison ivy, giant hogweed and asian hornets in Munich now. Makes
the occasional enduro ride much more interesting because
(military/railway) police, neighbourhood groups, environmentalists, dog
owners and shepherds have gotten a bit lame recently.
We have giant hogweed in some parts of the US. It looks like giant
Queen Anne's Lace, which is very pretty.
Murder hornets? Damn!
Actually, I had to look that critter up in Google. Turns out that it's
called "Toxicodendron diversilobum" or "Eichenblättriger Giftsumach" (how cool a name is that???) and that it is not very common in Germany outside
of botanic gardens and some hobby gardeners' herbariums. Perhaps (and luckily) the climate does not fit. Yet. It has been reported that some acclimatization process is going on. *)
Murder hornets? Damn!
We also have an invasion of chinese^Wasian ladybirds: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatischer_Marienk%C3%A4fer
who has more or less terminated our domestic ones.
There's also the "Eichen-Prozessionsspinner" (processionary moth) that some people call the "Angela-Merkel-Caterpillar" *LOL* because of it's colour, behaviour, toxicity and the damage it does to the German oak: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichen-Prozessionsspinner
That guy is cool as well as it has stinging hair which can break off and
then irritate skin and respiratory system. You are not supposed to burn
them (for obvious reasons) but rather cover the webs with sticky sugar
glue.
And another - ahem - "guest" from Asia: The "Asiatischer Laubholzbockkäfer" (Anoplophora glabripennis): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatischer_Laubholzbockk%C3%A4fer
Damages our trees more than the domestic bark beetle.
Do you also have mistletoes over ther in the US? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misteln
VERY hard to get rid of.
Volker
*) I vaguely remember a rmd rider's report where he fell off the bike, dropped into some kind of gully, right into a poisonous plant and had one hell of a time getting himself and the bike out. Was quite fun to read, but probably not so much fun to be in that situation. Anyone knows that story?
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 08:07:08 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
On 04/22/2021 08:40 AM, Volker Bartheld wrote:
We also have an invasion of chinese^Wasian ladybirds:We always called those ladybugs, not ladybirds. How can people have
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatischer_Marienk%C3%A4fer
who has more or less terminated our domestic ones.
made such an egregious mistake?
Not my fault: https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=marienk%C3%A4fer
Seems that both terms are OK. *shrug*
I broke into a frozen lake with my Honda XR600R once. And a friend got trapped in barbed wire with his KTM. The good NATO stuff: https://123stahl-shop.de/images/product_images/popup_images/118_0.jpg
Almost ruined my leatherman to break him free. But that's another story.
On 04/22/2021 08:40 AM, Volker Bartheld wrote:
We also have an invasion of chinese^Wasian ladybirds:We always called those ladybugs, not ladybirds. How can people have
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatischer_Marienk%C3%A4fer
who has more or less terminated our domestic ones.
made such an egregious mistake?
I once saw something wherein a small number of them were forced to walk
in a circle until they died. Good riddance.
I don't care if they allow birds to survive, I want them eliminated!
Do you also have mistletoes over ther in the US?Yes. They sell bunches of it at Christmas. Supposedly it's legal to
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misteln
kiss total strangers if they happen to be standing under a sprig of mistletoe.
*) I vaguely remember a rmd rider's report where he fell off the bike,No, but I'm glad it happened to someone else.
dropped into some kind of gully, right into a poisonous plant and had one
hell of a time getting himself and the bike out. Was quite fun to read, but >> probably not so much fun to be in that situation. Anyone knows that story?
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