Atom Age #3 - HexOffender / Pests / Dessicate / Slacker / Peer Review

Doors Pub, Saturday, August 15 at 08:00 PM EDT

C’mon out to party to honour our bro Atom Would.

Featuring:

HexOffender - scary music for scary people

Pests - also scary music for scary people

Desiccate - loud music for loud people

Slacker - fast music for fast people

Peer Review - garagey music for garagey people

Special guest DJs downstairs!

Y’all know how to use Google, you can find everyone’s Bandcamps on your own.

Saturday, August 15th

8PM doors
9PM music

$15/PWYC
NOTAFLOF

https://toronto.askapunk.net/event/atom-age-3-hexoffender-pests-dessicate-slacker-peer-review

OK, I've been over every cupboard with a flashlight & opened every bag & jar of grains, flour etc. & I seriously cannot find anything remotely resembling a breeding ground for those fucking pantry moths 🤔

I mean, it also doesn't feel quite like an infestation - I've only seen like three of them, tops, at any given time, usually it's just a single one - so... maybe they're coming in from somewhere else...?

Can they do that?

#urbanfauna #pests

17-Jun-2026
Insect-eating #bats may be helpful consumers of #pests of #crops including grapevines, orchard fruits, and vegetables, per study following six #horseshoeBat colonies in northern #Spain

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1131677

#science #ecology #insects

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🚫🪲 Flushing a tick down the toilet doesn’t kill it – their tough chitin exoskeleton lets them survive the #water and potentially even crawl back out.

#Cornell entomologist Brian Lovett explains that #ticks are impervious tanks and that flushing them means throwing away valuable #data that could help scientists track tick-borne #diseases. Better options include crushing them, submerging in rubbing #alcohol, or trapping them in a container and sending them to a lab for testing.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/dont-flush-ticks-down-toilet/

#entomology #science #biology #lymedisease #pests #nature #insects #health #education #summer #outdoors #wildlife

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🚫🪲 Flushing a tick down the toilet doesn’t kill it – their tough chitin exoskeleton lets them survive the #water and potentially even crawl back out.

#Cornell entomologist Brian Lovett explains that #ticks are impervious tanks and that flushing them means throwing away valuable #data that could help scientists track tick-borne #diseases. Better options include crushing them, submerging in rubbing #alcohol, or trapping them in a container and sending them to a lab for testing.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/dont-flush-ticks-down-toilet/

#entomology #science #biology #lymedisease #pests #nature #insects #health #education #summer #outdoors #wildlife

[EDIT: got the help I needed. TYSM Fediverse! ❤️]

Plea for diagnosis.
Please help!

What are these black bumps on my fig's leaves?
Looks lime some kind of a beetle but they stay put in the same spot so maybe not?

Is there a way to get rid of them without poisoning the fruits?

I'm in zone 10a.
Boosts appreciated. 🙏

CC @runderful_ryan

#gardening #pests #fig

I wish I had a handyperson pal I could call when weird things come up with the house.

Today's weird but unfortunately annual thing is the June gnat invasion. I keep the windows closed once the temps get over 80f, and when there's gnats invading. I don't leave food out at all. Yet it's like the gnat version of the fly scene in Amityville Horror. I put numerous sticky traps on the windows and they work, but the gnats keep coming.  

#Adulting #House #Pests

#mosquitoes #westnile #westnilevirus #disease #nature #watertreatment #pests

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/video/dZ61JSTi?playlist=p71u5XZn