280 days of Urbpandemonium #108

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[buboniclou]

So pretty! Is that a band of color, or pollen, or sawdust?

[urbpan]

That's a band of golden hairs, helpful in identifying this species.

[autumnfox]

I love your blog, and I love entries like this. This is so interesting.

[urbpan]

Thanks so much!

[autumnfox]

I just disturbed a nest of the small ants who sometimes pester us inside a planter in my container garden. I was much too annoyed to video them scurrying to disassemble the nest and remove its contents, but I really should have. I hope they find another household to pester! They drive me up the wall when they get into the house. The house we live in now is brand new, and we just moved in a few weeks ago. No sight of ants yet except out in the container garden, and that is a relief.

[perspicuity]

my woods are host to various wood peckers. those pillated ARE big. rodan.

they have chewed into my house prior. cuz they do that. also trees. literally have pecked through dead trees.

i leave a few dead trees as snags, but man, "those things" :D

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[the_siobhan]

I ripped out the rotton wood underneath my kitchen sink earlier this year, and was rewarded by having a few dozen of these guys running around in my kitchen for a few months afterwards. They seem to have moved on now.