I’ve already been ATE UP by mosquitoes since the end of March. I’m highly pissed with this.
Hot Weather To Bring Out Mosquitos Later This Week June 18, 2012 1:37 PM
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) - It’s a good time to make sure you’ve stocked up on bug spray, WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau Chief Fran Schneidau reported.
A combination of a mild winter coupled with very warm and humid weather coming later this week will give a big boost to the mosquito population.
With that comes the West Nile Virus, according to Connecticut State Entomologist Dr. Theodore Andreadis.
“I would not be surprised if we see something in the next couple of weeks, and that would also include New York City, for example, as well,” Andreadis told Schneidau. “They have already detected the virus in several locations in Pennsylvania and in New Jersey as well, and we usually fall just a couple of weeks behind them.”
Andreadis said he would not be surprised to see human cases of the virus earlier than usual.
How did I miss this? Y’all. They made beeping legal in NYC two years ago so now there are 161 registered hives randomly strewn about the city.
A) Where do you put bees in this city? I don’t even have enough room for all my shoes. B) Where do you send the bees off to forage or whatever you call it when they pollinate flowers or however they eat? What do bees eat? They eat nectar right? I’m trying so hard to remember Ms. Threatt’s 7th grade Life Science class, but it’s really not coming back to me at the moment. C) WHY DO I HAVE TO PUT UP WITH BEE SWARMS IN NEW YORK CITY! Jesus Herbert Christ. Don’t we have enough roaches and mosquitoes and rats? Are we really trying to add more creepy things to these cramped little islands?
This is such a mess. Look at this foolishness I found on the Gothamist.
Speaking to [The Telegraph], Yolanda Martin, who cares for the penguins at Spain’s Faunia Park, said: ‘We wanted them to have something to stay together for - so we got an egg. Otherwise they might have become depressed.’
Eggless’ chick laid by hen in Sri Lanka 19 April 2012 Last updated at 07:08 ET
A Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first.
Instead of passing out of the hen’s body and being incubated outside, the egg was incubated in the hen for 21 days and then hatched inside the hen. (cont.)
I can’t imagine that was a comfortable birth for anybody. My one experience with baby chicks was some kind of 4-H thing in Mrs. Long’s Third Grade class where we hatched eggs in an incubator. I held one of those little Future Nuggets and they are sharp little newborns. Between the feet and the beak, I was through after about 10 seconds.
That was my thought halfway through the article. Then it said the hen died soon after of internal injuries.
Oops. Guess my memory of sharp chicks was correct after all. :-/
That title is misleading. Let me go ahead and tell you that a shark does NOT appear at some point and eat a duck.
But still…these Australians are cuter than a basket of puppies on Christmas! Why can’t American news be more like this? And I’m talking about other than Hoda and Kathy Lee being drunk hoez every morning because I’m ready for somebody to just cart those bitches off to AA and get them off my screen.
This is what you look like after you get hit by a bird while riding a roller coaster.
