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Whoa. Awesome!

Good to know. I always wondered why it didn't grow back in subsequent years. I always let them go in my garden, I love them.

Looks like verbascum (mullein).

To be fair, there are a lot of permethrin products that are approved for dogs, and that have been found safe and effective. Some of them have been bestsellers (like K-9 Advantix).

The stink bugs in my house look alarmingly like kissing bugs. The only way to tell the difference, other than size, is the flat area on the rear legs. (flat area = stink bug, no flat area = kissing bug). The stink bugs have the marginal orange stripes and everything.

Ok, that's bad. And they look so much like regular stink bugs.

Some sort of aphids! I wonder what they're eating?

I would love to see a pic of some!

They mite be ticks.

What a delicious looking carcass.

Lots of non-feral cats are euthanized in shelters because there aren't enough homes for them all, and feral adult cats are pretty hard to tame and take a lot of time. A lot of them will never become tame enough.

Was that the reason they were so unsafe? My sister drove one for years. It was so stylish.

Teegate, is that what's left of the Corvair some of us found a few months after the fire? I recall that being near an interesting marker.

What kind of whine goes with squirrel?

Was it a pheasant?

That's a Lone Star larva.

Did they look like this?

Tick larvae have six legs just to confuse people. :) And as far as I know, all tick species start out that way, even the soft ticks (argasid). They feed, drop off and molt into an 8 legged nymph. Their 4th pair of legs are in the larva under the shell (scutum). I actually have no idea why they...

I promise, it's perfectly kosher in North America. There is a website that's operated by Oklahoma State University called showusyourticks.org, check it out. You can send any ticks you find on a dog or cat to them for ID, gratis. Plus whoever named that website is a genius (actually I know...

They're probably larvae from lone star ticks. The larvae show up in huge numbers right about now because adults emerge in the spring, find a host, feed and drop off, and lay eggs in huge masses, and then the egg masses hatch into giant balls of evil, all of this takes a couple months. Now is the...