I’m truly terrified of stinging insects, bees, wasps, yellow jackets. I tend to get a really big reaction to insect bites, so I’m afraid to get very close to any of them. Just watching this gives me the willies.
Tag: nature
Krakatoa is erupting right now
What the heck is going on? Krakatoa was the eruption that affected the worlds climate a while back, I believe, giving us the year without a summer and is a live system. Here’s some footage caught by fishermen.
Oh Boy! New Jersey has another fault line!
Just what everybody wants to hear. Evidently in addition to the Ramapo fault we have another one in Hunterdon County. There’s an awful lot of activity lately. (Although the earthquake was two years ago.). Still don’t like it.
Jellyfish and rays bring a stinging end to summer
The beach belongs to these sea lions…
This is great. I would love to see this in person. Let’s hope the jerks will not bother the animals. The sea lions had it first.
This looks like fun..
I don’t know where this is, but there are tons of deer in New Jersey (including right by us) and I think you could probably train them to do this . My neighbors might not be too happy, and it’s really not a good idea to make wild animals dependent, but it does look like fun.
What a variety of life visiting wash in Tucson
So much more variety in the desert than one would think.
Nature Break–Baby Musk Oxen REPRINT
Hi! Mr. Nature here.
Right now it’s snowing sideways and we’ve already got almost two feet of it on the ground, with more to come. Dig that Global Warming.
But here’s an animal that normally inhabits the northern coast of Greenland and some of the really, really cold parts of Canada–the musk ox.
The babies are cute as buttons. They will grow up to weigh 800 pounds with very sharp horns, and for big animals, they’re very light on their feet. In modern times they’ve been introduced to places where they lived during prehistoric times, such as Siberia, where they seem to be doing well.
North coast of Greenland–wow. Who would expect anything to be able to live there–let alone a large herbivorous mammal?
There’s no quibbling with God’s stuff, though. It always works.
Meteor Above New England Explodes
Where Not to Go for Information REPRINT
From October 20, 2013
Over years of fishing in Barnegat Bay, NJ, my wife and I caught hundreds of small sharks which we and everybody else called “smooth dogfish.” But were they really smooth-hounds? Could they have been the young of another kind of shark? Curious to find out, I consulted the Internet.
So what’s wrong with that?
A question-and-answer site called “Cha-Cha” blithely informed me that there are no sharks in Barnegat Bay. Yup, that’s the answer from the high-tech oracle. That the answer happens to be completely, 100% wrong would not be noticed by someone who had never fished in Barnegat Bay.
Above the stupid answer, among the ads by Google, was an exhortation to “vote for Peter Barnes,” Middlesex County, NJ, Democrat, because “He believes tax money should be used to fund education instead of CEOs’ retirement packages.”
“To fund education,” translated into English, means to pump colossal sums of money into the teachers’ unions, who will continue to support Democrat politicians by funneling union dues into political campaigns.
So the ad is no more truthful than the phony phacts on Cha-Cha, and certainly no more informative.
Or have we reached the stage in our cultural development where “to inform” means “to provide with false or incomplete information”?
P.S.–They were dogfish, all right. As my wife reminds me, they have the flat, shellfish-crunching teeth of dogfish. So I didn’t need the Internet for this, after all.