I'd heard that the nectar of pitcher plants can cause paralysis, but I got to see it in action this morning. Lil dude must have flown in last night, he was attracted to the lights when I turned them on, and very active. Until he landed on Judy and took a sip. I harassed him a lot with the needle before I pulled out the camera, not a twitch. Tried to go back for a better shot, but he was deep in the tube.
#gardening #CarnivorousPlants #botany #science

Sometimes I see a Coke commercial, and it looks all inclusive and perky, and I remember when I first heard about how they were draining aquifers in impoverished countries, then said "Nah, it was about to go dry anyway" and shipped off, leaving entire communities with no irrigation for their crops, and right when it started to pick up in the media BAM they support gay rights (I believe it was surrounding an Olympic thing) and all my friends shared them, and it was so fucking exhausting.

Joe sent me a meme that Xylitol (deadly to dogs) is now being marketed as birch sugar, so I googled and it's a thing.

#Dogs #pets

https://www.ashbyanimalclinic.com/post/important-statement-regarding-xylitol-birch-sugar-and-your-dogs-health

Just sent my youngest daughter's name to orbit Jupiter on the moon Europa, in a message in a bottle, along with a poem written by the US poet laureate.
#awesome
https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/

Playing with Judy.
#gardening #CarnivorousPlants

For a while there, I was going to identify every species of bug in my yard, then I realized some of the pretty ones were pests and I was happier not knowing, because they weren't causing a lot of damage, and I know that rung of the food chain needs any help it can get. So now I just blissfully say, "boodle".
#bug #gardening #nature

Celia, the purple pitcher hybrid on the right in the first pic, is a weed (the young peach tinted veinless traps can deepen to look like tequila sunrise). Hitchiked her way here in some live moss, is named after Celia in Weeds, 'cause tequila sunrise. She made me very happy by giving me my very first Sarracenia flower bud, which made me super excited, and I thought it would come up before her spring pitchers. Yet, she holds it firmly shut, still, in pic 2. Sigh.

#gardening #CarnivorousPlants

Love how parks manage their social media.

I've lost family to #covid so I was upset reading this article at first, but now I'm thinking about it, he wants to focus on healing the racial divides, and might tackle big Pharma, which does need a little shaking up. If we have to have a Republican, maybe he'll work out better than the dude who made his money by shocking the country by being a jerk to people for higher ratings.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is showing the world what happens when you grow up in a family right in the center of one of the most popular conspiracy theories of all time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/05/rfk-jr-democratic-primary-biden/
#politics