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MonarchLady

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Retired Park Naturalist/Educator, #MonarchButterfly #Milkweed #OldPeopleOfMastodon #pollinatorGarden #NativePlants #nature #TuxedoCats located in Ohio. White, female, straight, married 54 years, 2 sons, 1 grandson, atheist, Democrat, disabled by lumbar stenosis but still walking. Once a Girl Scout, always…..

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@futurebird love your posts. I watched an uprooted anthill reorganize itself yesterday. Fascinating to watch how they organized to save their eggs and pupae and get them to a safe place nearly two feet away in a hole in a wall. Unfortunately I doubt the queen was with them and I wonder can they make a new one and rebuild the colony. Big black ants.

futurebird ,
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@MonarchLady “Big black ants” probably means Camponotus (in the US at least) and they are often “multidominal” meaning they have one queen but many satellite nests. The queen will be in the most secure location— like a presidential nuclear bunker— the heart of an ancient oak tree— in the crown of the taproot just below the soil. So she may be fine!

ryanprior ,
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@futurebird @MonarchLady I rescued a big ol Camponotus queen out of a bowl of water the other day. She seemed silly.

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Newborn Cardinal in our front porch hanging basket. Only 1.

dillyd ,
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@MonarchLady
So adorably ugly! You just reminded me to check on the nest outside my window. I was out of town for 9 days and now I see 4 baby robins!

MonarchLady , to random
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Well, the day started with a flooded basement and ended with a tornado warning. In between we installed a new sump pump and dried out half a dozen sopping wet Boy Scout troop sleeping bags. Tips for surviving a wet basement: Pack totes so that they won't overturn if they float off. Don't store them under anything else; if they can't float free, they'll overturn. Don't stack them; they'll overturn. Never put up on single 8" concrete blocks what can be put up on TWO 8" concrete blocks.

MonarchLady OP ,
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@dillyd Oh, yeah, this happens fairly regularly. We've been here since 1989. My husband got careless with his Boy Scout troop supplies, that's all.
I should point out that the contents of overturned totes generally get sucked into a sump pump when the power turns back on. And that wet tissue paper is heavy enough to crush rare German glass Xmas ornaments. We learned that the first year we flooded.

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