Strange Goin's On

[1voyager1]

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Originally posted by ElysianWort

flowering prolifically out of season

.... Also if you know there is active poisonings, be sure to not let your cats eat the poisoned rats. (if possible)

I like flying saucers. Tell me more. Which direction to look? I don't know about the rest of you guys but I'm certain we don't live alone in this multiverse. We share it. Just because our scientists don't see it doesn't mean they don't exist.

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I said they were good rat catchers not killers.
Doodle catches at least one almost every day.
Then he plays with it until it's catatonic with fear.
Then he walks away having lost interest in it.
Tubby would be a lot thinner if he had to work for his living.
His given name, Hunter, is more of an expectation places on a kitten, not a description of his abilities.
M'Lady feeds them a lot more than I would.
I'd make sure they kept at least part time jobs.

Yes, I have no doubt "they" are out there, somewhere.
The universe is too large to to expect otherwise.

What I do doubt is that "they" know we're here and are stopping by to check us out.
Once again, because the universe is too large to expect otherwise.

[spencerw]

well here at my house weve had 100 inches more rain than our 'normal' average of 140, coming to a total of 240 inches thus far. im going to assume that alone had a large effect on the flowering/fruiting. plus the volcanic emissions, things are a little bit strange. my avo finished fruiting 2 months early. only got 2 weeks of lilikoi harvest, normally goes on for months, and my banana racks are only half mature. hey atleast things are growing once again and thriving. one year off i bet next year will be a major fruiting year. think of a hard prune. plants get set back a year or two and bounce back like crazy

[bananahead]

An estimated 1,150 species of Lepidoptera, the order comprising butterflies and moths, have been recorded in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Of these, 948 ARE ENDEMIC..... and 199 are nonindigenous introduced species.

sphinx moths
the pink one is the non-native one, the orange one is the Blackburn's moth...

a critically endangered species....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manduca_blackburni

Manduca blackburni, commonly known as Blackburn's sphinx moth, Hawaiian tomato hornworm, and Hawaiian tobacco hornworm, is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae. It is endemic to Hawaii. Previously known from all of the main islands, this rare moth is now limited to Maui, the Big Island, and Kahoolawe. It is found in coastal mesic and dry forests at elevations from sea level 5,000 ft (1,500 m).

Manduca blackburni is closely related to the tomato hornworm (M. quinquemaculata), which it also physically resembles. It was listed as an endangered species by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 2000, making it the first Hawaiian insect to receive such a status.

Larvae feed on plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, especially native aiea (Nothocestrum spp.), but also non-native tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), tree tobacco (N. glauca), jimson weed (Datura stramonium), and eggplant (Solanum melongena). The adult feeds on nectar from native plants such as koali awa (Ipomoea indica) and maiapilo (Capparis sandwichiana).

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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha

[kalianna]

This morning as I perused the property I discovered that my lilikoi vines, which have barely produced anything this year, are suddenly filled with small green fruit. LOTS of 'em. I had pretty much given up on them for the year so what a great surprise. Is this happening with anyone else?

[Carey]

I noticed the same with our tangerine... Just couple of weeks ago there were 2 almost ripe fruits & nothing else that I could fine... now there are a lot of really small (dime sized) fruits, and still those 2 almost totally ripe fruit.... so maybe 2 fruits in Dec & a late January/February harvest of a lot of tangerines...