OT: Things we find freaking neat but no place to post

[puckhead]

 

[forty_three]

 

[evolver115]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/us/firefly-population-science-in-a-twinkle-of-nighttime-in-the-south.html?_r=3

“Fireflies are indicators of the health of the environment and are declining across the world as a result of degradation and loss of suitable habitat, pollution of river systems, increased use of pesticides in agro-ecosystems and increased light pollution in areas of human habitation,”

I've noticed this in PA. There are fewer fireflies now compared to when I was growing up. This isn't neat, but it doesn't drive me F'n nuts so I dropped it here.

 

[forty_three]

 

[puckhead]

the things you learn when you spend decades on a bus
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152706325853453

 

[dash]

The Lions sleep tonight?

/Ah weeba whip Ah weeba whip...

 

[dare2be]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/us/firefly-population-science-in-a-twinkle-of-nighttime-in-the-south.html?_r=3



I've noticed this in PA. There are fewer fireflies now compared to when I was growing up. This isn't neat, but it doesn't drive me F'n nuts so I dropped it here.

Visiting my parents this summer, I noticed more fireflies in their backyard than I ever remember growing up. Go figure.

 

[dare2be]

 

[Comeds]

The situation in Ferguson is getting crazy!

 

[forty_three]

The situation in Ferguson is getting crazy!

Good thing that wasn't Grimace




/I am ashamed of myself.

 

[Darkstone42]

Visiting my parents this summer, I noticed more fireflies in their backyard than I ever remember growing up. Go figure.

Tell your parents to stop hoarding all the region's fireflies, darn it!

 

[IPostedWhat]

First Putin, and now this soccer guy.....WW has been busy lately.

 

[evolver115]

Visiting my parents this summer, I noticed more fireflies in their backyard than I ever remember growing up. Go figure.

I've noticed a decline in two different ways. The first is my family has a cottage in the Allegheny Mountains, east of Somerset. Usually, when we are up there in the summertime, when sitting around the camp fire at night, the field behind the cottage looks like a laser show. You used to be able to see thousands of fireflies. I was up there in July of this year for a week and it was noticeably less. The kids didn't even bother trying to catch them because there were hardly any to find.

The other way I've noticed the decline is when I've been traveling this summer through PA. Usually, if I'm making a road trip this time of year, after the trip my front bumper and windshield will usually looks like Slimer from Ghostbusters just slid his ass across it and I have to scrub that crap off. This year, I don't know if I've even seen more than one or two spots after a trip.

 

[IPostedWhat]

 

[dash]

First Putin, and now this soccer guy.....WW has been busy lately.

Those kits look shitty anyways...

 

[thedddd]

 

[thedddd]

 

[Comeds]

I've noticed a decline in two different ways. The first is my family has a cottage in the Allegheny Mountains, east of Somerset. Usually, when we are up there in the summertime, when sitting around the camp fire at night, the field behind the cottage looks like a laser show. You used to be able to see thousands of fireflies. I was up there in July of this year for a week and it was noticeably less. The kids didn't even bother trying to catch them because there were hardly any to find.

The other way I've noticed the decline is when I've been traveling this summer through PA. Usually, if I'm making a road trip this time of year, after the trip my front bumper and windshield will usually looks like Slimer from Ghostbusters just slid his ass across it and I have to scrub that crap off. This year, I don't know if I've even seen more than one or two spots after a trip.

It seems like a lot less 'lightnin' bugs' around here nowadays too. I didn't know whether it just seemed like more in my memory or whether there are actually more.

 

[dash]

This story is from 2013, but Canada's honey bee population isn't doing very well.

Huge honey bee losses across Canada dash hopes of upturn - Canada - CBC News

 

[Comeds]

I may be way off but I bet hardly any work is getting done in that office.