CodeRecce

I planted this hedge just over 10 years ago to replace about 60 feet of Leylandii which was too high, too gloomy, too fast-growing and draining the life out of the neighbouring soil. I opted for a country-style hedge made up of a mixture of nature plants, all of which are good for wildlife, including quite a few with attractive flowers and which produce fruits or nuts in autumn. Native plants often have hundreds of associated insect species, some of which have very specific or unique needs, so planting them makes for a more healthy and varied ecosystem. I like all the different textures and shades of green, especially in spring, and how it all mixes together like a big tapestry. Just needs one trim a year in autumn, so it's pretty low maintenance too. 👍 Hornbeam, holly, hawthorn, dogwood, field maple, hazel (not fully in leaf yet), guelder rose, blackthorn, purple beech and privet. (With a few sycamores and brambles which the wind and birds decided to plant, uninvited...) 🙄

Moths outnumber butterflies about 15 to 1 in North America. There are roughly 12,000 moth species here, compared to about 750 butterflies. Most moths work the night shift and we don't see them unless a porch light pulls them in. They pollinate more flowers than most people realize. Their caterpillars also feed almost every songbird in North America. A single nesting pair of chickadees needs 6,000 to 9,000 caterpillars to raise one brood, and the vast majority of those are moth caterpillars, not butterfly. If you want more birds, you want more moths. If you want more moths, turn off your porch light, plant native trees and shrubs, and let the leaf litter stay where it falls.

@RDPHistory She’s a Canadian Pacific ship, the only non-UK STUFT ship in the Task Force.

April 19th 1982: The fresh water tanker RFA Fort Toronto departs from Southampton and heads south to support the task force...

@seanroofus @OnDisasters IMHO this is the reason. Jack and Fred had both left the reserves before joining the astronaut program, but Jim Lovell was still active Navy.

@OnDisasters The one saluting was still reserve military or active duty. Others were retired.

Could any veterans here explain why they had different salutes? I recall the reason, but I´m too wasted to google it now

@giveashitnature not enough data available.

@giveashitnature a medication based in religious practices, to protect wildlife Now that the wild dogs have expanded into this ecological niche, I wonder if vulture can displace them. It does the raise the question of how they did hold on, and what's holding back a population resurgence. Prob

Vulture populations in India collapsed. 500,000 people died as a result. In the 1990s, Indian farmers started using a cheap painkiller called diclofenac on their cattle. When vultures ate the carcasses, the drug destroyed their kidneys. Without vultures, cattle carcasses rotted in fields instead of being stripped clean in 45 minutes. Feral dog populations exploded by five million. Rabies cases surged. Pathogens spread through water supplies. University of Chicago economists compared death rates in districts that used to have vultures to districts that never did. Human mortality rose more than 4% after the collapse. Over 100,000 extra deaths a year. Half a million in five years. India banned the drug in 2006. The vultures still haven't recovered. This is what a keystone species is to us. This is why we protect the animals nobody finds cute.

@pyrgopolyn420 @thedaywar90 @SecWar

@thedaywar90 I wish he'd keep his filthy religion out of our government. @SecWar is a adulterous, ignorant, unqualified drunk.

Yesterday's Pentagon prayer service was held during the workday, live-streamed on Pentagon TV. Hegseth entered with his wife and sat with their children sat in the front row. Other families were in attendance. The invited pastor also brought his family. Hegseth greeted the pastor's wife by name from the podium and noted the pastor's kids in the room. This is the U.S. Secretary of Defense hosting what appears to be a family church gathering in a federal building on a Wednesday morning.

@saniyafatma1278 What bastards from throwing him out When I was a kid we accidentally gave away our neighbours cat. We didn’t know it was theirs, they weren’t looking after it. A couple who had lost their cat came to see if it was theirs, he leapt into their basket and refused to get out 🤣🤣🤣

This is Julius. My neighbors decided to kick him out of the house and stop leaving food out for him so he came and asked if he could move in. How could I say no! He came to me with an u.r.i, heart murmur and is fiv+. 2 days ago he got neutered, up to date on all vaccines. His blood work came back good. I'm waiting for the "honeymoon phase" to be over so I can see what kind of shenanigans he is capable of.

@TheLaikYobaz Do people really think it's possible to dig down through those mountains? Or can't they read a map?

Bir X kullanıcısının Hürmüz Boğazı ile ilgili önerdiği çözüm sosyal medyada gündem oldu. Sizce mantıklı mı, yoksa hayal ürünü mü?

@JesterJum It was the recent statement that Artemis 2 had taken its crew further into space than anyone before. That distance was beyond insignificant in the scale of the solar system, let alone the galaxy. And on spaceship Earth we’ve moving through the cosmos, just it’s all moving.

The observable universe is 92 billion light years across. The furthest humans have ever been from Earth is 1.29 light seconds. If you dont believe in aliens, why dont you? Cause statistically, we cant be the only form of life out there.

@RDPHistory The Submarine Command Course to become a submarine captain is known The Perisher, it got that name because of how tough it is. If I recall correctly it’s got a 50% failure rate, and those that do fail never go to sea in a sub again. youtube.com/watch?v=I1LF2I…

April 18th 1982: Off South Georgia, HMS Conqueror conducts a dived reconnaissance to allow the SBS a sighting of the island and to check for any Argentine shipping. Whale contacts, glaciers and uncharted rocks, plus water ingress in her antennae, are causing a lot of problems...

@RyanFromDiscord @DocStrangelove2 Except that image is THE SAME RIVERBED. It’s not some random picture, it’s the same place, with the same piles of rocks, it’s not unrelated.

@CodeRecce @DocStrangelove2 I can find a picture of a gorilla with an AK does that mean there's no context where anyone should own a gun?

I remember seeing a cases of searchers who were trying to find a missing person in a national park and used those as a point of reference. So yeah, don't do that.

@messything42135 @agbdrilling They are probably too different to properly compare. Like Sea Dart and Sea Wolf, or Sidewinder and Sparrow. But IMHO Sea Slug only had a role as a ground attack cruise during the Falklands. Did Sea Cat have a role?

@CodeRecce @agbdrilling I was thinking Sea Slug was the worse, I may be wrong, but its got to be bad to be worse than the Slug

Seacat Air Defence Missile, probably the most ineffective weapon the Royal Navy took to the Falklands Campaign Slower than some of the aircraft it was supposed to shoot down Could not shoot a target that was within 300 yards Very poor at engaging crossing targets

@DrNeilStone Surely the editor of the Lancet also has to shoulder some responsibility for that particular fiasco.

The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross malpractice And here we are 27 years later RFK Jr and his fans dredging up the same nonsense Such a tiresome waste of time

@irawinkler @JustaDude2i He's "being a d*ck" because he's defending his wife from being kicked off the plane.

@JustaDude2i They aren't kicking off the deaf woman, they're kicking of the man for apparently being a d*ck.

Video shows United Airlines staff threatening to kick a deaf woman off of a flight for offending an off-duty employee. A United Airlines first class passenger and his hearing impaired wife were booted from their flight after a conflict with an off duty crewmember. Video from the cabin shows the man in his seat, upset but controlled, explaining that the employee snapped at his wife because she "didn't hear" and "wasn't listening." He says he tried to explain the disability; the employee got ruder rather than apologizing, and then they sat down.

@SGTWipper1Each Spooky is unlikely to operate in contested airspace, while the AH-64 is going to be used for CAS against non-peer foes, or beyond high density AA coverage of near-peer foes.

@SGTWipper1Each CAS against infantry or light vehicles, Spooky is probably the most cost effective solution in terms of airframe, hours on task, crew training and munitions. AH-64 is probably the most versatile, and an Army asset, rather than Air Force. Current Cav doctrine has changed it's role

Best Close Air Support platform. Which one are you choosing?

@StevenRLedoux @DocStrangelove2 Not these ones. Actual proper structures with a function are one thing, something thrown together in under 5 mins for an Insta post are something else.

@DocStrangelove2 I was about to say, they always seem like a point of reference (especially having been taught that in Boy Scouts as a means to mark a trail or path).