wax_worm_futures [comrade/them]
So um…
…do you work closely with fish nurseries?
I used to compost the vegetable peels, now I feed them to my worms.
Sometimes it takes me a while to go through a sack of potatoes, and I am always going to aggressively peel what’s left.
not since I quit the capitalist bug farm, over there you’d get drizzled with roaches every time you opened a door or moved a rack
They do a good job of attracting oils and this can fill the gaps between them and block water from getting through.
There are barber shops that have donated a bunch of their waste hair to firms that make floating sponges that soak up oil from oil spills.
Excuse me?! I’m the conductor of the worm train.
Choo choooooooooooooo
All the commercial ear drops are based on either vinegar, alcohol, or hydrogen peroxide. And a list of antibiotics that steadily gets longer as resistance disseminates.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/24654-ear-drops
I was reading a scientific article a few days ago about mealworms (of course), and the process by which they extract water from the air. Turns out it more than doubles their metabolic rate just to do that.
So even the biomimetics isn’t going to get us very far on this one.
The kind of solution you’re looking for involves moist soils with high levels of organic matter. That, and using less water for economic activity.
I seriously am about to have more bugs than I know what to do with. I have maybe 50,000 mealworms right now and in a few months I will have over 200,000.
With any luck, I will find gec owners and chicken keepers and backyard birbwatchers to sell to.