un-identified

[shooter]

Outside, 2^nd story, sticking to the glass
Guesses?
I’m thinking/guessing spider or tree-frog eggs?

[sluckey]

Those are insect eggs. Most likely moth. The google app on my phone allows you to do searches with the camera or any pic in your gallery. That's how I found your un-identified pic.

You can use google on your pc to search for "moth eggs".

[shooter]

Thanks, baby moths huh, the birds n bats will enjoy their future meals.
I tried using a magnifier, my eye's no longer work well enough to discern movement at that scale



I deleted all things google about 1 day after I bought my new Dell 
my 3G filpphone is still in good shape for a couple more months 

[RadioComm]

my 3G filpphone is still in good shape for a couple more months 

lol  I have a spanking brand new 5G phone will all the features, but still use it exactly the same way as I did my very first analog flip phone from the 90's... It's just that everything is so small on that phone, and my fingers are so fat... Compared to the phone's font that is. Thanks for the laugh 

I had a girlfriend who never bought herself a flat screen TV, because her old CRT just wouldn't break down. So she said... Had to bang on it every time just to get it working. It'll break down in a 'couple of more months' so she said. Kept it forever.   

ttfn.

[shooter]

 
yep, phone; "hay, ya, ok..."
my Dell Core7 17" for the rest!


and google is not because I hang out with the tin-foil crowd.  I PAY for metered Inet, 15G, google would steal Megs n megs n..., WITHOUT chipping in OR even asking!!

[shooter]

...24hrs later, there livin in the fast lane 
I have a resident tree-frog, hangs out on the same glass likes to eat moths.  He usually makes an early fall entrance.

[dude]

Hey Shooter, feed the bats..? I got bats here, great for bugs outside but no so great when wife is freaking out when they get inside. She totally freaks, grabbing her hair, ha. I don’t want to harm them, but getting them out is almost impossible.
Once they land on a curtain or wherever you can’t find them and if you do, how do you free them outside from my freaking out wife…?

[shooter]

 
when we bought the place 30+ years ago, I was sitting outside and counted 30+ bats
we're down to maybe 5-10.
Pam doesn't freak out anymore, she just hunts me down!
I use a butterfly net if they're flying, otherwise i'll "scoop them up" in a towel then transfer them outside.
just did 3 last week, found their entrance point from the attic to the house, sealed it up, none this week!


we lost a lot of small browns from the fungal issue a few years back.   Looks like the ones I rescued are small browns, so maybe they are on the raise 

[dude]

Exactly, common brown bats here in PA. They migrate in Winter, come back in Spring to have there babies in my attic. I have an old house, parts are 1820's and remodeled in 1873, too many crevices' to find and seal in Winter plus 35' up. I've looked everywhere for their entry into the house, those guys can get in with just a 3/4" opening. I'm sure they don't want inside as much us too.
Don't have a big fish or butterfly net, but if I'm fast enough maybe a part of a deer net might work better than a towel..? Thanks for the idea.
Once during repairing, opened the wall on third floor and got two drywall buckets filled up with dried guano, wore a mask.
It's a problem every year, balloon studded walls, so they get lost, fall down the walls and crawl under baseboards or wherever, then it's freak out time, wife is getting better too. Deer netting seems a good choice, with the holes maybe throw their radar is off..?
Thanks again for the tip.

[shooter]

our place was built around '30's.  The original owner's family homesteaded the property circa 1830's, if I recall was 1600 acres, so they just had small log homes that got build.   by 1930's it was an 800-acre farm, the barn pre-dates the house maybe 20 years.  We bought the farmhouse, barn, garage and 4 acres.
the place still had tube n knob wiring in the attic, you'd crawl along and see many years' worth of small critter skeletal remains where they bridged the wires!



we usually don't find the bat til morning, by then they are pretty whooped so I can usually just scoop them up in my gloved hand, go outside and hold them lightly against a tree, they will clip on and go back to sleep.

[sluckey]

Those caterpillars have probably found some nice tender greens to munch on by now.   

[shooter]

at the 48hr mark from the 1st egg shot they were all gone!




checked the garden, it's sandwiched between 7' sunflowers and 6' sweet corn, other than a couple spiders, everything's fine 
the corn however, the deer found it did minor damage reaching over the fence, so last night I drug a 30' tarp and laid it along the fence, thinking the blue color and unusual texture on the hoofs keeps them at bay, no new naw-marks so far.

[PRR]

Today's paper:
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/21/homestead/peeing-on-your-garden-joam40zk0w/

We investigated whether peeing on your garden will keep pests away
by Julia Bayly   
July 21, 2022

When answering the call of nature, there is no reason to not make the most of it.

That’s how gardener Kathy Flint sees it.

For the past several years she and her family have used their own urine as a deterrent to keep deer out of her vegetable garden. So far, according to the Mechanic Falls resident, it’s working.

Human urine may play a role in the future of gardening as an environmentally sustainable fertilizer, according to a study published earlier this year from researchers at the University of Michigan. But some homesteaders have long been using it as a method of pest deterrent — even though experts say there’s no science that it works.

“The olfactory ones that are among the commercially available [deterrents] tend not to work particularly well,” said Griffin Dill, integrated pest management professional at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. “When it comes to human urine you hear anecdotal things from people who say they have tried it and it worked, but in most cases it’s not terribly effective.”

Despite that, gardeners in the Facebook group Backyard Gardening Maine recently shared their experiences in using their own urine as an effective pest deterrent for deer, with one person suggesting urine from men is more effective than women’s.

For Flint, if she’s working outside and the need to urinate hits, instead of running inside to the bathroom she steps into a sheltered area in her yard near the garden, drops her shorts and does as nature intends.

“A lot of people may think it’s gross,” Flint said. “But nature can be gross.”

Flint adds she has no neighbors who can see into her yard, otherwise she’d never expose herself in that manner. Much less ask her family to do likewise.

“I asked my husband if he’s out in the garage or doing yard work if he could go out to the backside of the garden near the woods to pee,” Flint said. “My kids never thought anything of running to the bushes to pee.”

Despite seeing deer in the woods around her house, none of the animals has entered her garden to nibble on the growing vegetables.

“The idea behind it is that [human] urine does contain some level of ammonia and that is known to have some repellent qualities,” Dill said. “But to have the level of ammonia needed to keep deer away the person would have to be fairly dehydrated or have some other form of a medical condition.”

Beyond that, Dill said there is an environmental concern of putting human waste on the ground — especially if it may contain the byproducts of prescription medications.

“People do think of it as a natural option,” Dill said. “But there could be trace contaminants in there.”

Even if the urine does seem to work, Dill said over time deer will become accustomed to the smell, and it will no longer act as a deterrent.

“Instead of urine, some sort of physical barrier like a fence is the best way to prevent deer from getting into your garden,” he said.

Human urine — and solid waste — is also used by some home gardeners as composted fertilizer.

The nutrient-rich liquid has been used for thousands of years as a fertilizer, according to research from the University of Michigan.

“When you live in the country, why not [pee] where you want?” Flint said. “Animals do it, why not us?”

[sluckey]

That sounds like a very opinionated yankee!   

I don't agree with a lot of that but I'm a southern country boy. And I do love taking a piss in my backyard every day. I do look around to see if anyone is watching. Only been caught once in 30 years (that I'm aware of)!   

It just feels right! And so good!

[shooter]

 
yep!


....AND I did do my business there a few times, such a waste of energy walking a 50yrds, through 2 doors and 40' of house just to pee!
not to mention trackin in yard stuff, catching heck from Pam....


as for environmentally concerned goes, 2 houses down is the Honey truck man, Chuck will dump his load on the 200 acres he owns, legally permissible, since I'm downstream, I don't drink from the frog-pond 

[shooter]

more aliens here 


the color suggests fungal, close appears moss-like
my 1st thought, car eats frog result