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Star Borne
Earth’s Extraterrestrial History
Giant, Scary Hairy Ants
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You don’t have to go to the Amazon jungle to find strange and bizarre creatures. They might be living in your own backyard. The state of Georgia has an abundance of giant bugs, creepy bugs, nasty bugs and cool bugs. …
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Do turtles eat strawberries?
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If it wasn’t for our dog Dakota we wouldn’t know about half of the creatures we share our one acre with. She’d led us to Eastern Kingsnakes, Minotaur Dung Beetles and a variety of other interesting creatures and plants. This …
Posted in Animals, Dogs, Nature
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Do Squirrels Eat Peaches?
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We’ve had a heck of a time trying to grow peaches in our back yard. We live in Georgia, which is known as the Peach State, where even the license plates show pictures of peaches so you’d think it would …
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Big Hairy Spider
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The spider web was a gigantic maze of concentric circles just outside our front door. The spider’s web connected the front porch roof to the front porch railing. Right in the center of the giant spider web was a big …
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Assassin Bug Nymph
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Somewhere I’d heard that bright red bugs should be avoided at all costs, promising serious pain from bites or stings. In the case of the Cow Killer wasp this was definitely true, so when I happened upon another vividly colored …
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Long-legged House Centipede
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It simply amazes me how many southern bugs are nasty. Bugs in the South are bigger and they all seem to either bite or sting and it’s never just a little pinch. Our one acre had produced scorpions, assassin bugs, …
Orange Tentacled Fungus on Trees
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Bright orange many-tentacled creatures covered the tree like ornaments on a Christmas tree. They looked just like sea anemones you find in the ocean but these were growing all over our cedar tree. We’d never seen anything like it and …
Posted in Books, Entertainment, Nature, Plants
Tagged apple tree rust, bizarre fungus, bizarre tree growth, cedar apple rust, cedar tree rust, fungi, fungus, Gymnosporangium, Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, mother nature, parasitic fungus, rust gall, tentacled blob, tentacled fungus, tentacles, tree blobs, tree fungus, tree rust
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Afraid of Dogs
We were watching a show called My Extreme Animal Phobia about people who are deathly afraid of creatures such as spiders, snakes, cockroaches, lizards, pitbull dogs, and even butterflies and moths. The show provided a therapist to work with the …
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The Hamster Diary
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September 25, 2013: This hamster thing… I guess I haven’t been posting about our newly adopted hamsters. They kept me up all night long last night, after realizing that TWO hamsters could beget HUNDREDS more. We had no idea of …
Kindle Comic Creator Application
I decided to give the Kindle Comic Creator Application a try for a kid’s book entitled, “Do Turtles Eat Strawberries.” I’d already successfully published several coffee table photo books on Kindle which were written in straight HTML, then run through …
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