![]() Php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-pgsql php-smbclient php-ssh2 \ Openssl php-imagick php7.0-common php7.0-curl php7.0-gd \ Installing Apache, PHP and PHP modules is pretty straightforward process, just issue the following command: sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server libapache2-mod-php7.0 \ To install the latest Redis version from the default Debian repositories run the following command: sudo apt install redis-server 3. Redis is an in-memory database which will be used by the ownCLoud installation as memory cache. MariaDB > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON owncloud.* TO IDENTIFIED BY 'owncloud_passwd' MariaDB > CREATE DATABASE owncloud CHARACTER SET utf8 To create a database and mysql user for our ownCloud installation run the following commands: mysql -u root -p To secure your installation and to setup the root password issue: sudo mysql_secure_installation 2. When the installation is complete, run the following commands to start and enable the MariaDB service : sudo systemctl start mariadb To install the MariaDB server run the following command: sudo apt install mariadb-server In this guide we will use MariaDB as database engine. OwnCloud can use MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or SQLite as a backend data storage. Let’s get started with installing ownCloud on your Debian 9 server. This guide should work on other Debian based systems as well but was tested and written for Debian 9 VPS. Installing ownCloud on Debian, is fairly easy task and should not take more than 15 minutes. ownCloud allows you to easily manage your files, calendars, contacts, to-do lists, and more, making it a great alternative to the popular Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, iCloud and other cloud platforms. MySQL server must be started before creating the database, login to MySQL server.OwnCloud is a flexible, self-hosted open source PHP web application used for data synchronization and file sharing. sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/cloud/ Create Database: sudo mkdir /var/www/cloud/dataĪllow the web server to read and write the files on cloud directory. sudo mv owncloud /var/www/cloudĬreate a data directory under the /var/www/cloud, it will hold the data uploaded by the users. Move ownCloud under Apache server document root. Download and Setup:ĭownload ownCloud from official website or enter the fallowing command on terminal. While installing MySQL server, you will be asked to setup a password for MySQL root user. sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-mysql php5-gd mysql-server So install PHP, Apache web server and MySQL server on Linux Mint. To setup ownClound on Linux Mint 14, MySQL database is the best to choose over others. Prerequisites:Īs mentioned earlier, it is based on PHP and database combination, database can be any of the above four. ![]() Here is the small guide to setup ownCloud 5 on Linux Mint 14. Mount External Storage (Dropbox, FTP, Google docs etc).Online text editor with syntax highlighting and code folding.Sharing of content across groups or public URLs.User and group administration (via OpenID or LDAP).File storage in conventional directory structures (also via WebDAV).The following are the list of features available on ownCloud. Commercial version of ownCloud is also available. It provides almost all possibility of functions that are available on commercial suites it is released under AGPLv3 license, so you can setup own cloud storage server without any additional cost. The project is based on PHP and a SQLite, MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL database, so it can run on all platforms that meet these requirements. Data will be stored on the server and can be downloaded or access any time with browser. OwnCloud is a web suite that provides a cloud storage over the network, data can be uploaded via web browser or using software client.
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![]() To use antivirus, privacy scanner, and to delete identified threats, users have to upgrade to a premium version. Please continue with the succeeding removal procedures if your are comfortable to manually get rid of the threat and malicious items linked with it. Step 1 : Turn Off Sync on Google ChromeĢ. In the address bar please type the following: chrome://settings/syncSetupģ. On Settings page, click the Turn off button to disable syncing Chrome settings between devices. If in case that you don't want to stop syncing other sections like Apps, Bookmarks, History, Theme, and so on, please click on Manager what you sync. Step 2 : Delete MPlayerX or Suspicious Browser Extension To successfully remove MPlayerX, you may disable only Apps and Extensions data. ![]() Most adware and unwanted programs are using a program called browser extension to be able to take over the settings of internet applications. Therefore, we highly recommend to check and remove the extension that is closely related to MPlayerX. If it is not present, look for and delete any suspicious browser extension. Remove MPlayerX Extension from Google ChromeĢ. Type chrome://extensions/ in the address bar and press Enter on keyboard.ģ. Find MPlayerX or relevant entry and remove it from Google Chrome browser. Uninstall MPlayerX Extension from Mozilla FirefoxĢ. ![]() Type about:addons in the address bar and press Enter on keyboard.Ĥ. The great irony of Johnson’s career was that the punk scene he helped inspire scuppered Dr Feelgood’s own commercial progress. Indeed, it proved to be a huge influence on post-punk, too: Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill always credited Johnson as the key inspiration on his own jagged, hugely aggressive playing. Quite aside from the British artists gobsmacked by seeing Dr Feelgood cutting a swathe through London’s pub rock circuit – they were bound to stand out on a scene that dealt largely in laid-back rootsy Americana – Blondie’s drummer Clem Burke bought their 1975 debut album Down by the Jetty on a trip to Europe and recalled the amazement of the Ramones and Richard Hell when he played it to them on his return to New York. It proved to be a huge influence on punk. It was, as Brilleaux memorably put it, music “about bad luck” and Johnson’s guitar was the key ingredient: playing without a plectrum, he perfected a taut, staccato, slashing style that seemed riven with pent-up aggression. They sounded like a product of the mid 1970s, as if some of the desperation and nihilism of the era of stagflation and pub bombings had seeped into the bones of the old songs they played. It was simple idea, but that was the point: to provide a stark alternative to the increasingly grandiose ambitions of progressive rock (music, Johnson dismissively suggested, that “sounded like birds twittering”), one that suggested something essential and potent had been lost along the way. “Stand and watch the towers burning, at the break of day,” ran the atmospheric opening line of All Through the City: a description of staring at the Shell Haven oil refinery while coming down from amphetamines. He also had a thing about lyrics that attempted to imbue his home town of Canvey Island with the kind of mythic aura the blues and rock’n’roll had conferred on the Mississippi delta. ![]() Johnson wrote original material in the same vein, as if all the musical developments that had taken place since the mid-60s hadn’t happened: Roxette, She Does It Right, Back in the Night. They played the kind of rhythm and blues and rock’n’roll covers that Britain’s beat groups had played in the early 60s, before the advent of psychedelia had made pop a more complex and ostensibly intellectual business: Route 66, Bonie Moronie, I’m a Hog for You Baby, Riot in Cell Block Number 9. On one level, what Dr Feelgood did was very straightforward. Photograph: Estate of Keith Morris/Redferns More accurately, they looked like three villains from The Sweeney who had been forced to keep an eye on their boss’s unpredictable nephew: Johnson, who careered around the stage, mouth permanently open, eyes bulging with the effect of amphetamines beneath his pudding-basin haircut, raising his guitar to his shoulder as if it were a gun, occasionally colliding with his bandmates as they affected to ignore him and glowered at the audience.ĭr Feelgood in 1976 … (L-R) Lee Brilleaux, John B Sparks, John ‘The Big Figure’ Martin and Wilko Johnson. The oft-repeated line is that, with their cheap suits and air of menace, Dr Feelgood looked less like rock stars than villains from The Sweeney. Their late frontman Lee Brilleaux was a brilliant vocalist and performer, but Wilko Johnson was Dr Feelgood’s visual focus. ![]() When other musicians attested to the life-changing impact of seeing Dr Feelgood live in 1974 or 75 – and everyone from Paul Weller and Joe Strummer to Suggs from Madness and Bill Drummond of the KLF did – it was always Johnson they singled out. The astonishing story of Johnson’s diagnosis with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2013, followed by his seemingly miraculous recovery after a doctor who happened to be in the audience at one of his farewell shows suggested he visit an oncologist for a second opinion, had made him more famous than he had ever been: a “100-1 shot for the title of Greatest Living Englishman”, as one critic put it, who had first wowed the general public with the calm, philosophical acceptance of imminent death he displayed in interviews after his diagnosis, then cheated death entirely.īut, really, there was no danger of anything overshadowing Johnson’s importance as a guitarist. W hen the Guardian interviewed Wilko Johnson in 2015, he expressed concern that he might now be viewed “as the Cancer Bloke rather than a guitar player”. ![]() This play in turn inspired a 1938 film adaptation, as well as the 1956 musical My Fair Lady and its 1964 film adaptation. In George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, a modern variant of the myth, the underclass flower-girl Eliza Doolittle is metaphorically "brought to life" by a phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, who teaches her to refine her accent and conversation and otherwise conduct herself with upper-class manners in social situations. In the final scene of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, a statue of Queen Hermione which comes to life is revealed as Hermione herself, so bringing the play to a conclusion of reconciliations. Goethe calls her Elise, based upon the variants in the story of Dido/ Elissa.Ī variant of this theme can also be seen in the story of Pinocchio, in which a wooden puppet is transformed into a "real boy", though in this case the puppet possesses sapience prior to its transformation it is the puppet and not its creator, the woodcarver Geppetto, who beseeches the divine powers for the miracle. At an unknown date, later authors give as the name of the statue that of the sea- nymph Galatea or Galathea. The basic Pygmalion story has been widely transmitted and re-presented in the arts through the centuries. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This article appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. ![]() An example of this trope appears in William Shakespeare's play, The Winter's Tale, where the king of Sicily is presented with an extremely lifelike statue of his wife (which is actually his long-presumed dead wife). This trope was inherited by writers on art after the Renaissance. The trope of a sculpture so life-like that it seemed about to move was a commonplace with writers on works of art in antiquity. The moral anecdote of the " Apega of Nabis", recounted by the historian Polybius, described a supposed mechanical simulacrum of the tyrant's wife, that crushed victims in her embrace. The story of the breath of life in a statue has parallels in the examples of Daedalus, who used quicksilver to install a voice in his statues or to make them move of Hephaestus, who created automata for his workshop of Talos, an artificial man of bronze, and (according to Hesiod) of Pandora, who was made from clay at the behest of Zeus. In the story of Dido, Pygmalion is an evil king. Perhaps he drew on the lost narrative by Philostephanus that was paraphrased by Clement of Alexandria. Ovid's mention of Paphos suggests that he was drawing on a more circumstantial account than the source for a passing mention of Pygmalion in Pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheke, a Hellenic mythography of the 2nd-century AD. In some versions, Paphos was a son, and they also had a daughter, Metharme. In Ovid's narrative, they had a daughter, Paphos, from whom the city's name is derived. Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture, which changed to a woman under Aphrodite's blessing. He kissed it again, and found that the ivory had lost its hardness. When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm. There, too afraid to admit his desire, he quietly wished for a bride who would be "the living likeness of my ivory girl". In time, Aphrodite's festival day came and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. ![]() Pygmalion kisses and fondles the sculpture, brings it various gifts, and creates a sumptuous bed for it. He made a sculpture of a woman that he found so perfect he fell in love with it. He determined to remain celibate and to occupy himself with sculpting. Post-classical sources name her Galatea.Īccording to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion ( / p ɪ ɡ ˈ m eɪ l i ən/ Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus, who was a king and a sculptor. Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717 ![]() Limited to about 3,300 vehicles, the Demon 170 serves as the ultimate drag-racing Challenger. Black exterior with gator skin roof graphics.Production will be limited to just 300 vehicles and built from the Hellcat Redeye Widebody. Leather and synthetic suede upholstery with green stitching.Limited to 1,000 units and based off the R/T Scat Pack Widebody, it includes: Leather and synthetic suede upholstery with red stitching.Available in gray or black (Widebody only).Only 1,000 examples will be built in R/T Scat Pack and R/T Scat Pack Widebody trims. Six-speaker Alpine and 18-speaker Harman Kardon premium sound systemsĭodge is also offering four Last Call special-edition models for the 2023 Challenger.Plus package (more convenience, performance and tech features for the lower trim levels).Cold Weather Group (heated seats and steering wheel).Driver Convenience Group (blind-spot warning among other features).Technology Group (adaptive cruise control and forward collision warning).Besides many performance, exterior appearance and interior trim packages, the highlights include: The Redeye version also includes a slight bump in power to 807 hp.Īfter choosing the Challenger that meets your budget requirements and performance expectations, you can customize the car through an array of options and packages. It allows for expanded customization options for paint colors, interior trim, wheels and more. The Jailbreak package can be specified for the SRT Hellcat and Hellcat Redeye. Larger six-piston Brembo brakes (R/T Scat Pack).Widebody-specific suspension (with adaptive damping on R/T Scat Pack).Exterior and interior SRT Super Stock badgesĪ Widebody package is available for the R/T Scat Pack and Hellcat models.Further upgraded 6.2-liter V8 engine (807 hp, 707 lb-ft).The SRT Super Stock takes the street-legal drag racer theme even further with: ![]()
Leather is most often dyed to give leather products a certain look. ![]() ![]() Leather is resistant to water up to a certain point, but once it has started to soak into the material of your couch, it will work away at the leather from the inside out. If this happens, you will need to buy a leather repair kit and fix the damaged spot, otherwise it will only get worse as more of the material starts to peel off. If too much water gets on a leather couch, it can cause the fabric to start to crack and peel. If your couch becomes ruined by water, you will either have to work quickly to rectify the damage, or you’ll have to get rid of your couch and buy a new one. Not only does water damage look bad on a couch, it also causes the leather to change shape and texture, or even get moldy. Never leave any unattended liquids too close to a couch in case an accident happens and it does spill onto the couch, especially since you may not notice until later, when the liquid molecules have had the opportunity to penetrate the fabric.Ī little bit of water can be easily wiped off a leather couch without causing any damage, but a lot of water will definitely ruin the couch, or, at least, a section of it. If you are worried about accidentally spilling something on your leather couch, try to avoid drinking or having other liquids near it. Think of a leather couch like skin: it is covered in pores that won’t always pull external bacteria in, but when they do, those bacteria (or in this case, liquid molecules) can cause damage from within which will affect the look of the outside.Īs previously stated, the best way to make your couch as waterproof as it can be is to treat it regularly and check for any water marks or other damage. If the leather of your couch is older, it is at even more risk of absorbing excess liquids. Leather is a naturally porous material, which means that it has lots of small penetrable areas where liquids can pass through and get trapped. You can do this by purchasing a waterproofing product, like a pot of beeswax or a leather protection cream.Īpplying these products regularly as part of a care routine will make your couch as waterproof as it can be and give you more peace of mind. Some people take extra effort to make their leather couches more waterproof. When compared to other fabrics that are used for couches, such as velvet or polyester, leather has a much better defence against water, though the material is not completely waterproof.Ī lot of the time, water will just run off leather and then the material will need to be dried out, but too much water can cause damage to a leather couch. Leather is a very durable material, and leather couches are designed to be as strong and resistant as possible because of how much they are used. Worse, Pure Music is way too fiddly and finicky for my purposes. While they do visibly post instructions to minimize or disable many computer functions to optimize music playing, that's a non-starter for me. Might as well buy an outboard player in hardware form instead. Worst of all, PM occasionally stalls or stutters. (My iMac is loaded.)Īt least Audirvana is stable. Likely due to its independent-from-iTunes operation. I wouldn't call its library management great to work with, compared to iTunes. Guess I'll reluctantly buy this one only to play back the tiny number of DSD files in the system. Unless, as it's been suggested, it can't handle large libraries. I'm not sure what large is I don't think I'll ever exceed 50,000 tracks. My impression so far is that all these software players are tinker-toys compared to an outboard player.What is general opinion on Roon sound quality? I have used Audirvana+ for 5 years and updated each time a new version came out. I changed DACs 2 weeks ago, and my new DAC is more resolving of my server (Mac Mini with Uptone Audio MMK, LPS, SSD, 8 meg RAM feeding USB to my DAC. It sounds fantastic, but it got me thinking. So I spent all day on trying Amarra, HQ player, PureMusic, then lastly Roon. Audirvana+ is still ahead of all of these except Roon. I tried Roon about 18 months ago and it was nothing special. I don't upsample, and feed my NOS DAC resident rate. ![]() Swopping between A+ and Roon on select tracks, they sound very similar, closer than the rest of the bunch. But A+ has a digital sound to it, a very slight coarseness that clings to the treble region, most noticeable on female vocals for example. In World War II, because of the shortage of natural rubber, scientists in the United States tried to turn common milkweed’s latex into a rubber-like substitute.Among more than 2,000 plant species known to produce natural rubber, the Brazilian rubber tree is the only commercial source at present. Ninety percent of all natural rubber comes from the Brazilian rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, which is native to the Amazon Basin and a member of the euphorbia family.Thick, milky latex (sap) is present in all parts of the plant. Showy milkweed ( Asclepias speciosa) is another common 3 to 4 foot tall milkweed and a favorite host plant of tiger-swallowtail butterfly larvae. Native American peoples used rubber rabbitbrush as a source of rich yellow dye for blankets and rugs and the latex as a source of chewing gum. However, there is no commercially viable method of extracting it yet. Rubber rabbitbrush ( Ericameria nauseosa) is a native source of latex, used in making rubber. The diminishing acreage of rubber plantations, an increasing demand, and the life-threatening latex allergy to Hevea rubber have prompted research interests in the development of alternative rubber sources, such as guayule, a native to Texas and Mexico. The fields were later destroyed or abandoned with the advent of synthetic rubber. In California and the southwest, many acres of guayule ( Parthenium argentatum), pronounced "wa-YOO-lee," were planted to decrease the United States' dependence on foreign sources of rubber during World War II. The first European notice of rubber was by Columbus in the Caribbean and by Cortez in Mexico, where crude rubber balls were noted as playthings of the American Indians. chicory tribe (Lactuceae) of the sunflower family (Asteraceae). ![]() Plant families that produce copious amounts of latex include: This is quite different from the internal secretory tissues (pockets, cavities, or canals) in which most resin is produced. Latex is produced in vessels or special cells called laticifers, single cells, or strings of cells that form tubes, canals, or networks in various plant organs. Natural latex, which is nearly chemical free, is used in the manufacturing of natural latex mattresses, beauty application pads, and cushioning. ![]() Latex paint uses synthetic latex as a binder, which is not flammable, has little odor, and cures to form a dry paint film. Latex has many uses from clothing to paint, but most importantly is rubber. Latex is a thick, creamy white, milky emulsion, although sometimes it may be a thin, clear, yellow or orange, aqueous suspension. Since Timeless is a delay app, we need to minimally run on a 5ms delay to engage the filter flow. Pro Boost for Fabfilter Timeless 3A collection of deeply programmed presets for Timeless 3.Includes:Lots of cool reverbs only possible with Timeless 3. Note the following when you want to mix in dry content: ![]() Once you have subsequently saved a preset directly in Timeless 3, it will become available in other hosts as well.Īll of the presets are provided with fully wet settings. On the 'Timeless 3' plugin window in AUM, open the hamburger menu with the AUM presets (upper left corner, 4th icon from the left). Of note: if you already had made AUM presets for Timeless 3, then moving the directoryĤ66162464633547361756D66 to under 'On My iPad' -> 'AUM' -> 'Audio Unit Presets' will not work any longer! (If you do this, a new directory '466162464633547361756D66 2' will be created from what you had moved.) perform 'Select All' on the 133 *.aum_aupreset files go into the '466162464633547361756D66' directory that is created by unzipping the Zip file proceed per the first-time-install note aboveĮlse, you need to add the individual *.aum_aumpreset files to the preset directory instead: then move, rename, or delete the above preset directory If you have previously installed or created Timeless 3 AUM presets (e.g. 'On My iPad' -> 'AUM' -> 'Audio Unit Presets' If this is the first time you are installing Timeless 3 AUM presets: Must contain the Timeless 3 presets (*.aum_aupreset files) for AUM to find and use them. Of note, once you have subsequently saved a preset directly in Timeless 3, you can then use it in other hosts as well. Since the FabFilter folks do not support direct export or import of presets in iOS at this time, we need to take the workaround of exporting (and 'importing') AUM presets. ![]() The two-character prefixes group the patches by originating apps, helping to keep related presets together. Thus I claim neither originality nor faithfulness in reproduction. These patches are inspired from presets found in a half dozen filter apps. (Except that we are forced to add an initial delay - see below.) The presets here are not using the delay functionality of Timeless at all. Before putting in our unharness, 1st fully uninstall the other dateless three unharness you have got put in for full compatibility.Timeless 3 provides incredibly deep filter and modulation capabilities. If you want to use AAX, use bluecat’s patchworks. Verdict: ten out of 10!Īfter 1+ months of testing, no timebombs were found in our unharness. If a part has shaped in your plugin folder thanks to the dearth of a delay result, then can|you’ll|you may} notice that dateless three will fill it absolutely. Useful from FabFilter – Finally, you get all the standard edges from FabFilter: absolutely designed knobs, MIDI Learn, intelligent parameter interpolation for swish parameter transition, intensive facilitate with interactive tips, electronic equipment improvement and far a lot of. ![]() making new modulation connections could not be easier: simply drag and drop them with the mouse. Simple drag-and-drop modulation – simply customise daking, wow and flutter, dynamic diffusion or different inventive effects victimization the distinctive and versatile dateless modulation system. simply program your own delays victimization well-designed controls and interactive dial and filter displays. ![]() Vintage Filters and inventive Effects – The stereo delay signal passes through 5 distinctive effects and up to 6 analog sound filters, and is then routed back to the input with adjustable feedback. And with its distinctive effects, filters, patterns and unlimited modulation capabilities, you’ll even as simply flip it into the proper sound process machine! FabFilter dateless three is associate ultra-flexible tape delay plugin with time stretching, high-quality filters and drag-and-drop modulation.įabFilter dateless three could be a versatile ribbon diley with vintage sound which will absolutely satisfy your everyday desires. ![]() It’s found from southern Canada south to Guatemala and is sometimes (but not universally) called the Common TwW. Thread-waisted Wasp #2< may be Ammophila procera (the TwW with silver racing stripes on its thorax). For a nice article about this wasp by the co-author of the Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. In one of the attached pictures of the wasp #1 near her tunnel, she has backed out of the tunnel holding a ball of soil between her front legs. It lives in the eastern half of the U.S., where it collects a lot of cutworm caterpillars for its young (think corn earworm). In Latin, pictus = painted and pennis = feather and may refer to the insect’s painted wing). Thread-waisted Wasp #1 may be Ammophila pictipennis (a TwW whose orange wings have black tips that get lighter as they age/wear). When it’s time for a little shut-eye, Ammophila wasps grab a stem with their mandibles, fold their legs, and sleep, supported only by their strong jaws. ![]() It overwinters in its cell and emerges as an adult in spring. of a typical parasitoid, eating its caterpillar slowly, keeping it alive by leaving the vital organs until last. Scholars debate about whether this tool-using behavior is instinctive, insightful, trial-and-error, or intelligent. Then she refills the hole, compacting the dirt and concealing the disturbance by pressing on the soil with a small pebble that she holds in her jaws. Once home, she stuffs the paralyzed (but not dead) caterpillar into the burrow and lays an egg on it, thus providing her larva with a nutritious start in life. A large caterpillar “flying” through the air suspended by a much smaller wasp is a startling sight. Most Ammophilas target the caterpillars of moths and a few skipper butterflies and the larvae of their distant sawfly relatives. When the burrow is finished, she conceals its entrance and goes hunting. The resulting vibrations “drill” the dirt loose like a mini jack hammer, and a soft buzzing can be heard as she works. Using her mandibles as earth-movers, a female Ammophila digs an unbranched burrow for her eggs-but first, with her head pressed against the soil, she quivers her flight muscles. They average about an inch long and often have orange on their abdomens (females have more orange than males). You can find Ammophila wasps everywhere that has grassland/garden flowers to nectar on and a suitable substrate for digging a nest hole in (i.e. The first thing you discover when you Google Ammophila is that it’s the genus name both for some TwWs and for a few species of beach grasses, including one that is native to the Atlantic coast and the shores of the Great Lakes. They might be Ammophila pictipennis, Ammophila procera, and Eremnophila aureonotata.Īmmophila is Greek for sand lover. TwWs can be hard to identify with photos alone, but the BugLady thinks she has three species of wasps in two genera here, photographed in Wisconsin and New Jersey. Although the female is primarily a vegetarian that sips nectar from flowers as she hunts, she provides protein for her young (and she’s not above consuming some juices from the invertebrates she collects). Sphecids mostly nest in the ground or build free-standing nests from mud. Their various common names, like sand wasp, digger wasp, mud wasp, hunting wasp, caterpillar-hunter, and cicada killer tell us where they hang out and what they do. Many members of the order have a “pinched” or “stalked” waist ( petiole), but some members of the family Sphecidae, the Thread-waisted wasps (TwWs), carry that to extremes with a long, skinny “petiole” followed by a long, skinny abdomen. They’ve been around for more than 200 million years, appearing with the first dinosaurs and out-lasting them social behavior developed a mere 144 to 65 million years ago. It’s a huge order, with 130,000 species “on the books” and many other species waiting in the wings to be discovered and described. We’re doing a little science here.ĭespite the conspicuousness of ant hills and wasp nests and honeybee hives created by the social members of the order Hymenoptera, the majority of ants, bees and wasps (and sawflies and horntails) are solitary. Sit back and put your feet up-this is a tale that takes a bit of telling. |
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