There is also the Clearwing Hawk Moth.
Uncovering secrets of the glasswing butterfly’s see-through wings! — Palm Oil Detectives | Barbara Crane NavarroMost butterflies sport colourful, eye-catching wings. But some species flit about using mostly transparent wings. Researchers have now uncovered the tricks that one of these — the glasswing butterfly (Greta oto) — uses to hide in plain sight.Researchers viewed the wings of these Central American butterflies under the microscope. There they spied sparse,…
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Suddenly, the sun broke through
I turned around, she was gone
And all I had left
Was one little flower in my hand
But I knew
She had make me happy
Flowers in her hair
Flowers everywhere...
Was she reality
Or just a dream to me
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Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?
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Suspended under a twilight canopy
We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us
If by some chance you find yourself loving me
We'll find a cloud to hide us
We'll keep the moon beside us
Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon
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Since when? HF radio has no such shortcomings when you don't take its envelope and try to modulate visual frequencies with it. That's a fool's errand. Not just with HF but VHF and UHF. I suspect the article is actually talking about GHz frequencies. That's just not HF, sorry.
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Plasmonic Modulators Directly Convert Terahertz Waves To Optical Signals
A major bottleneck with high-frequency wireless communications is the conversion from radio frequencies to optical signals and vice versa. This is performed by an electro-optic modulator (EOM), whi…Hackaday
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Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees...
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Bee my, bee my baby
My one and only baby
Bee my bee my baby...
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Spring is sprung, the grass is riz
I wonder where thoze birdies iz.
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What a day for a daydream
Custom made for a daydreamin' boy
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VAnce & Acretrader never had an encounter with Willie Nelson & Farm Aid, apparently. They FA and are about to FO.
Look up JD Vance and Acretrader and you will understand why they want farmers to fail.They will basically be able to buy up prime farmland at fire sale prices once these farmers go bankrupt.
Dems had a plan called “Investing in Rural America”, but I guess Trump-voting farmers would rather make $7.25/hr in shoe factory and pay $50 for a Gildan blank.
Agricultural products: How Trump’s trade war with China might hurt the American farmers who voted him in |
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When it's late in the migration season and the Monarch cats I've taken into protective custody achieve adulthood, I know that I can give them a shortcut to the late migration route, since I know where it is already, and so when there's frost in the forecast, I know where they'll still be safe close to that route and provide limo service there.
Photo shows a Monarch perched on the backrest of the passenger side of the car, taking in the sights through the window.
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In a previous post I did say that there were not quite twice the number of Monarchs overwintering in Mexico than there were last year; The World Wildlife Fund has been keeping track, and here's their chart, which is still alarming even so.
There'll be more on the topic April 20th on "60 Minutes" when Monarch Watch retiree, Chip Taylor, gets interviewed.
I've been behaving myself on this instance so far, but be ye warned that when it's Caturday, I'll post caterpillar pictures. They're cats too.
This pic is of a 5th instar cat eating the peel off of a seed pod of a milkweed vine called Honeyvine. Too often it's not recognized as a milkweed and is removed under the belief that it is "invasive". It is not--its "problem" is that the seeds are highly vigorous and they don't all emerge at the same time; the ones that delay, or emerge during the pre-fall emergence event, give the impression that they've come up from neighboring vines. They do NOT.
This is a somewhat side-view of a Monarch egg in the process of hatching, so if you look closely, you can see that this, too, looks like just a black head up top but you can also see a tiny white patch where the mandibles are--this kid is getting a grip on a shell ridge to chew on to break out.
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The States have had weird weather for the past 3 years running, so you're not alone. They've also severely dropped in population number, too. We do have hope this year because compared to last year, the overwintering population in Mexico was not quite but almost doubled this year. I too had zero Monarch activity last year, and very meagre the prior year. It can only get better, I hope.
This is a pic of a Monarch egg that's fully ripe and ready to hatch, with the caterpillar's tiny black head at the top of the egg, as you're looking down on it.
Those migrants haven't reached the north central part of Oklahoma yet but according to Journey North, they've appeared in the southern part of the state at this point...so here's a pic of past Monarch activity here. This is a portrait of a newly hatched bebby.
This explains why I get highly irked when journos and Daily Show people explain that tariff formula in oversimplistic terms, invariably ignoring that triangle preceding the tau in that equation, invariably claiming that triangle-tau = plain tariff rate.
That triangle (delta) indicates the amount of the change in the tariff and there was already an across-the-board 10% baseline tariff in place.
Delta tau equals the change in the existing 10% tariff, not the gdamn total tariff, ya morons.
I’m just gonna put it out here:If something goes down 10% and then up 10% again you are not where you started
The 10% increase is on a smaller amount
100 - 10 = 90 + 9 = 99
This also applies to the stock markets for example
Another thing to thank Trump for. Bleah.
Social Security’s trust fund could run out of money sooner than expected due to changes in taxes and benefits buff.ly/juHULHySocial Security’s trust fund could run out of money sooner than expected due to changes in taxes and benefits
Steps taken to reform Social Security during the Biden and Trump administrations have only made the prospects for a funding crisis more serious.The Conversation
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I made some updates to the server's PHP-FPM configuration using the advise of a site to optimize PHP_FPM. So far so well. I have noticed better performance and stability and I am hoping that at this point the Instance is stable enough to handle the mild pressure it receives from its few users.
I am also working through a list of server optimizations for Friendica. Some I already had in play others needed tweaks. Stability is my main priority. I have limited the number of Users to 100. I will increase this if we reach 100 users and the Instance handles the load well.
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The Instance survived a Hashtag Games event, that is good 😉. I am glad you noticed a performance increase as well. Thank you for your efforts in helping to get the Instance stable.
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I was wondering why there was an image of a Wheel Bug in that poster, but now that I've looked this thing up, this is a disease spread by "kissing bugs"....which are a relative of the Wheel Bug--a type of Assassin Bug--so that explains that.
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You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
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When it gets closer to the actual time I will be posting on how to backup your account. For now you can look in the help tab for more information in the Further Information section. You can always get to the help tab via the Main Menu I include links though to help you out at the moment.
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Being able to participate in Hashtag Games and #Monsterdon at the same time with no interruptions....except I'm late for Monsterdon AGAIN!!!!
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After this day's over, I have one nerve left and I'm glad nobody's home to get on it.
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Since I'm new to t his instance, I did a search on #solarpunk to see if I could find any of my friends from elsewhere on here, and no luck--but I did get a surprise. I'm not sure how the film #FLOW qualifies as solarpunk but I did find a lot of references to that.
I did see and enjoy the movie on HBO, and I actually watched it several times--not only is it beautiful but it gives a person a lot to think about in a possible world where humans suddenly become extinct, or move afar because of climate-generated disasters of which they got early warning and suddenly evacuated, leaving animals to fend for themselves.
So I would encourage you to see it if you haven't already, and by all means see it more than once because you're bound to notice things you didn't initially notice before.
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It depends on which society.
Ever feel like society isn't for you? Ever wondered why? This might be worth exploring. It's a first post of many about a #societyofaveragesrealityfragments.com/2025/04/1…
A Society Built On Averages - RealityFragments.com
At the turn of the millennium, I read something that made so much sense to me that I built a bit of a world view on it.taran.a.rampersad@gmail.com (RealityFragments.com)
Indeed it does.
But since I have lived all over, I'm not gonna be too specific, though some examples will be. ;)
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Although HF Underground covers other broadcasters and bands, it appears this bot is focused on just the domestic pirates.
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The Instance went down again. Instead of rushing to get the instance back up I check some logs and it appears that when I increased the values I did not increase the pm.max_spare_servers. I allowed more to be generated but did not allow them to exist 😉. Which of course took php-fpm down.
I increased pm.max_spare_server so hopefully this time I have enough to handle the load. As you can see in the screenshot below as soon as more spare servers were added that brought it above 100, the whole service shutdown bringing the site down.
The setting still may need massaging. Time will show.
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Friendica is supposed to able to operate with far less resources than I have available on my VPS. I have dedicated that VPS to nothing but Friendica and support services for Friendica. I have only had this Instance up for a few months. So in time I will get it right 😉.
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I'm getting a lot of noise on that band at the moment.
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