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This little lady put on another 1/2 or so in height overnight, and the tiny leaves in the center have doubled in size. Not too bad for her 4th day out of a seed. I think. The next 60 days are going to drive me insane. It's probably a good thing I find watching her grow so fascinating haha.
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Gooooood morning AFN!!!

Came across this interesting article this AM about farmers doing some tests with using strips of wild flowers through their fields to attract the bugs that kill and eat the bugs they don't want. Kind of a "turn into the skid" type approach to getting rid of pests without pesticides, if it works.

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Concern over the environmental damage caused by pesticides has grown rapidly in recent years. Using wildflower margins to support insects including hoverflies, parasitic wasps and ground beetles has been shown to slash pest numbers in crops and even increase yields.
But until now wildflower strips were only planted around fields, meaning the natural predators are unable to reach the centre of large crop fields. “If you imagine the size of a [ground beetle], it’s a bloody long walk to the middle of a field,” said Prof Richard Pywell, at CEH.
GPS-guided harvesters can now precisely reap crops, meaning strips of wildflowers planted through crop fields can be avoided and left as refuges all year round. Pywell’s initial tests show that planting strips 100m apart means the predators are able to attack aphids and other pests throughout the field. The flowers planted include oxeye daisy, red clover, common knapweed and wild carrot.

Full Article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/31/stripes-of-wildflowers-across-farm-fields-could-cut-pesticide-spraying
 
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Our cat pee's in the shower.......I can't win dude :crying:

We see this alot in cats , inappropriate urination can be seen in cats for a couple reasons. One is Urinary tract infection. They will urinate where there owners will notice them doing it, as a sign to show that something is wrong. In the shower, in the sink, on owners Dirty clothes...etc Or Two ...its behavioral , meaning that they do it because there has been a change in their environment that they do not agree with. Felines hate changes in their environment. We had a case where the cat would piss in the bathroom sink...Urinalysis turned nothing up. We asked if any changes in household...nothing at the time..again, came back with same issue..asked again..they said ..come to think of it..we rearranged the living room, moved a end table she would use to sit on to look outside....they moved it back...problem solved.
 
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