ThomasPowers Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57853537 There have been a couple of them lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 4 hours ago, Glenn said: NEVER seen a tick crawl out of a piece of folded over tape. Did that to the last one I found crawling on me. I absolutely despise the things. I also destroy them in other ways. tape was convenient that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Never seen one climb out of a lit forge either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Provided you don't have an ignition source close a spritz of starter fluid clears the crawlies in drawers and cabinets. A squirt of WD40 will do in a wasp nest faster than they can crawl out. It doesn't seem to take but a whiff of ether to die. WD or other oils give them a direct lung hit through the breathing spicules that line their legs. A few drops of oil on standing water will kill any mosquito that lands to lay eggs. Garlic oil works very well with no negative effects, if you're not a bug that is. A barely visible rainbow sheen is plenty, an oil slick is a bad thing. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 6 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Now can we genetically modify Komodo Dragons with Gila Monsters to get a large venomous lizard? Komodo Dragons are already venomous. It's a slow acting venom, however, and it combines with the massive bacterial load in their saliva to kill their prey through a combination of envenomation and toxic shock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 I was on a drug derived from Gila Monster saliva when I was first mis-diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic. They had noticed that one of the effects of their venom was a massive decrease in blood sugar and someone was bright enough to say "Hey we know folks where that would be a *positive* thing!" (We called in Lizard Spit...) All too soon I wasn't making any insulin as I was actually had "adult onset juvenile diabetes" and had to go on gmo human insulin and cut out the other medications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 15 hours ago, TWISTEDWILLOW said: I was just talking to Thomas earlier this week about a bluff near by me that’s made up entirely of crinoid fossils What topic was that? I missed it. I searched but only got a few hits. I did find Fossil Forum tho. Edit: Nevermind. I found it. If it was a snake it would have bit me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Interesting article, it reminds me of the Burgess Shale deposits in Canada in the way the organisms were fossilized. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 I strongly support their wish to keep that location a secret; but I'll bet that it will be circulating around the fossil folks by the end of the month. Too many clues were given! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 I find that my Bic lighter does a fine job of BBQing ticks and the light oil film on the slack tub smothers the larva that is in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 What kinda oil do you use Irondragon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 What ever vegetable oil I have in the quench tank currently peanut oil. Canola oil works well too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 It's only as secret as the inverse of the number of people who know about it. They said the located the private quarry in a satellite photo as a good potential hunting ground. There are probably satellite pics of them recovering fossils. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowpoke Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 To learn hand eye coordination before I teach a beginner class I recommend that students (at home) drive nails with a 16oz claw hammer. Start off driving the nails straight down, then angle the head from away from you then drive it. This will represent hamming a taper on a bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 A cup of bleach works to get rid of larvae in the old slack tub also, if you dont mind the smell of bleach that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Mr. B. bones, Chlorine bleach works really well. You can get rid of the smell by using photographers hypo, (a.k.a. sodium thiosulphate). It works almost instantaneously. And it's not very expensive. I used to buy it at photography shops but I was forced to buy the last batch on the net. Regards to all, SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidesaddle queen Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 morning!! i got the mark aspery book.. great book!!!! it answered questions i didn't even know to ask..lol!!! thanks for the recommendation!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 A well-educated person isn't one who has all the right answers; it's one who knows how to ask all the right questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvil Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 And knows what book the answer is in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Or knows to ask the librarian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Bullet Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 It is amazing how far off topic we can get. I like it! To draw it back a little closer to the original discussion, the part about hand/eye coordination and how some people seemed to grasp spatial relationships and how to manage them (with tools) sounded a resonant chord in me. When I was diving, I found that was usually the difference between a good diver and just another wet body on the time ticket. Ninety percent (or more) of the work I did in my early "mudhole" days was done in zero visibility. I had an accident involving O2 toxicity (that's where I got the "Purple Bullet" nickname ) and couldn't dive deep water until I passed an O2 tolerance test (which I did a few years later - again, another story.) After doing this a while, I could get down to a site, run my gloved hands over everything there, and thereafter I "saw" everything in my mind's eye. I did a lot of hammering on hammer wrenches. Sometimes I had to even use both hands on an 18# maul. The wrench was tied to my harness with a rope so if it fell off the nut I'd know to not swing again until I replaced it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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