Sean Bean hiking up to the Lord of the Rings sets bc he’s afraid of helicopters is even funnier when you hear that Viggo Mortensen did the exact same thing, except Viggo’s reason for hiking to the sets was bc he wanted to be authentically travel-worn
Like literally you have Boromir doing this pretty cool thing bc he’s scared to death of the alternative while Aragorn just does it for The Aesthetic™
The sound my stupid cat makes when I move him from his favourite spot (on top of my jackets)
what kind of camera are you using this is like movie quality god damn
HE SOUNDS SO SAD PUT hIM BACK
The red planet has blue sunsets.
Just as colors are made more dramatic during Earth sunsets, Martian sunsets make the blue around the sun look more prominent, because all the fine dust in the atmosphere is the perfect size for scattering blue light across the sky more efficiently than any other color.
what the fuck
Either I was infected on my cross-country move OR this is also either Downeast or ADHD culture
Uh yeah no, this is just american vernacular
Y'all ever just suddenly have the overwhelming urge to swim??? Like not actively but you just wanna,,, be in the water and have some Peace
Yes it’s called the mammalian diving response and it’s also why doing face masks and taking a shower is soothing. Our amphibian ancestors used this mechanism to slow down the heartbeat and lower body temperature so as not to waste calories while swimming (which is very calorie intensive). It makes you feel safe because predators are less likely to get you in water than on land. The fish brain is alive and well in all of us.
It’s literally activated by putting water on the face.
My amphibian ancestors gave me the instinct to dissociate in the shower for hours on end
Sweet makes a bee hotel - and now you can too!
So I recently made a bee hotel. It’s pretty inexpensive to make, and also relatively quick – in most cases. It might take a few days if you’re using bamboo, simply because your arms might hurt from sawing, and you might wanna take a break. It’s aimed at solitary wild bees, and thus also suitable for regions in which honeybees aren’t native.
These things are great for making them with kids (supervised, of course), and to look at the finished hotel later to learn more about bee behaviour.
As a disclaimer: I work for my country’s main Nature Conservation Syndicate (I doubt you’ll ever come across it, but if you’re from Luxembourg and see a SICONA post on facebook with the exact same pictures : I dind’n steal them. I took them myself, and wrote said post myself.
This is everything you will need:
- Some sort of container. I used an old washed Ravioli can, but a discarded flower pot should work just as well.
- Bamboo sticks. I got mine for very inexpensive at the garden center, but alternatively, if you have access to, Spanish reed works as well and will actually make your life easier with this project (the reed used in diffusers might be too small).
- A saw. I’ve used a small metal saw because it makes finer and cleaner cuts.
- Drill bits for wood if you’re using bamboo.
- Cotton.
- A bit of sandpaper.
- String or wire.
- Optional: Hot glue.
First thing you’ll need to do is to cut your bamboo. It has to be approximately as long as your container. The metal saw cuts slowly, but the cuts are fine and relatively clean. After that you might wanna go back and sand the edges of your bamboo so they’re smooth, just to make sure that the bees don’t get stuck in them with their wings.
The next
thing: Take your drill bits and drill them slowly by hand into your bamboo.
This is to carve out the bamboo so that the bee has somewhere to climb into.
Shake the dust out.
If you’re using reed you might not need to do this, maybe to make the wholes a
bit wider.
This also takes a while, so take it slowly and take breaks whenever you need
to.
Then stuff the open ends of your bamboo/reed with cotton. It insulates the whole thing a bit, and bees won’t use open-ended sticks.
Now take your sticks, and shove them into your container, with the cotton-stuffed ends to the bottom. And I mean it when I say stuff that thing. It needs to be so fully packed that the sticks won’t fall out on their own. This makes it more difficult for other animals to go “Ooooooh, sticks!” and just pull them out and steal them.
All you need to do now is take wire or string, tie it around your container, and attach it to a tree branch/fence/wall in your garden. The essential is that it is either hanging/standing horizontally, or maybe even a sliiiiightly bit tipped over, so rainwater can’t enter.
If you want to stand the thing up, I’d recommend hot glueing two pieces of bamboo/reed lengthwise on the bottom of your container to act as feet so it won’t roll away.
“But Rima, bees need sun, the larvae need the heat to develop, but won’t it get way too warm if you put that thing in the sun?”
That’s a very god question! While it is true that insects need the sun to be active, we don’t want them to get fried. I’d recommend putting the hotel in a spot with partial shade. That way they can still get enough sunlight and heat, while also having cooler spots they can retreat to if they want to, or if it gets too hot.
Reblogging for the evening crew!
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