I agree with some of the other replies, use round hard wood toothpicks driven into say every other existing hole with Titebond glue. After that group of holes are repaired and glue cured, then repeat repairing the other set of holes not yet repaired.
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from a camera standpoint, very funny, I really enjoyed the humor. From a soil health standpoint neither one is very good. Although the first picture shows less of a problem. Neither one has live roots in the soil where photosynthesis is pumping nutrients into the microbes below, in the soil; 2/3rds of the biomass is in the soil not what we normally look at as living plants above the soil. Second picture is worse because it also shows bear ground, many more issues with bear-ground. Regenerative farming practices are attempting to correct the mistakes we have been making, thereby reducing the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere. A good read on the subject is a book "Dirt to Soil" by Gabe Brown.
from a camera standpoint, very funny, I really enjoyed the humor. From a soil health standpoint neither one is very good. Although the first picture shows less of a problem. Neither one has live roots in the soil where photosynthesis is pumping nutrients into the microbes below, in the soil; 2/3rds of the biomass is in the soil not what we normally look at as living plants above the soil. Second picture is worse because it also shows bear ground, many more issues with bear-ground. Regenerative farming practices are attempting to correct the mistakes we have been making, thereby reducing the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere. A good read on the subject is a book "Dirt to Soil" by Gabe Brown.
It is a government dictate, manufacturers are required to make it that you cannot permanently opt out. And it requires that you go through a sequence to turn that function off every time you turn the car on the first time. With this function on and you save fuel, in a week it required restarting the car several hundred times and saved less than one half gallon of gas. Image who is going to pay for the starter motor replacement.
How does this new format make sense, the appearance is no longer any structure??
After years of gardening, I finally learned a number of things that I have been doing wrong. In reading a great book "Dirt to Soil" by Gabe Brown I learned what a lot of those wrongs. while air temperature is indicative of some of the challenges we might face, soil temperature is far more important. Uncovered bare soil can rapidly reach very high temperatures. Plants thrive at 75F, at 95F they are shutting down, and at 140F they are dying. First step, read the book.
I should have made a comment about this bee's eye yesterday. It shows phenomenal details, that we would normally miss especially the pollen grains. But also, the fact that bees as we as other insects have far more hair than we observe. Keep up the great documentation that you share with us; greatly appreciated. The one that amazed me even more was the feather on the leg brush for the praying Manti's eye, a while back.
This is just a guess, but I suspect that you flew your drone into what we call a drone congregation area. In a hive we most likely have 50,000 to 60,000 thousand female bees known as worker bees, one queen (also female), and 1,000 to 2,000 drones (male bees). The only purpose of the males is to mate with virgin queens.
Bee drones fly to specific areas known as drone congregation areas from around noon till 3 or 4pm.
Then virgin queens will then fly out to these areas to mate with an average of 14 of drones; if successfully mated queens only do this one day maybe two days (in their lifetime) if she does not obtain enough sperm. While drone generally fly out to one of these areas (weather permitting) every day from spring to fall. I single drone doesn't live that length of time, so hives continue to produce drones to meet the need of virgin queens.
Interestingly, queens do not mate with the drones from their own hive.
Looks more like a hornet than a bee.
my guess would be a close up of a sheared pinecone.
What would you like to ask about them? I have built and used them, especially enjoy teaching high school kids to use these tools to develop and test robots. Coupled with 3D modeling software they can become very fast and powerful tools to enable you great flexibility to construct many different things. In a past life, I started with a machine called and NC mill. Used paper tel-a-tape for input into the machine. Recently moved on to using 3D printers. Being retired has afforded me time to play.
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I am sure I have some images that I will have to recover off an old hard drive. The thing I remember most about this plant (we keep in in a pot was given to us when it was about 5 years old), is that every year or take my battery powered Sawsall with a 15inch pruning blade and divide the roots into 4 or five smaller plants which we give to friends. They seem to like the plants very much. Thanks for your interest. We are in zone 5/6 so we have been bringing them inside to over winter each year.
Flower ID; Clivia, native of South Africa