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		<title>war of the ants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I really do hate using my entymology powers for evil. Yet, I have been waging a war out my front door on an ant colony as they wreck havoc upon a beautiful and otherwise-thriving plum tree I’ve been trying to grow in my front yard. Let’s back up. We’ve been in our house for twenty [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Atop a mountain this past summer, backcountry camping for three nights an eight hour hike from civilization, I spent an hour each day keeping up my writing by scribbling narratives of our daily advenutres into my smartphone. This is one of my entries. day two Anyone in search of an example of modern evolutionary pressure [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>of a hundred little bugs.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Artist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did I mention that I have a biology degree? It factors into this post, so it&#8217;s worth mentioning now. Bachelor of Science with a specialization in molecular genetics and minor in entomology, convocation 1999. I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ve used it much in my career, though having it has opened numerous doors. And occasionally it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book: Handbook of the Canadian Rockies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t buy many paper books these days, so I caught even myself off guard when I dropped fifty bucks on this doorstop-grade loaf while on vacation over the summer, and in a souvenir store no less. We had spent the day in the wilderness and flipping through the pages it caught the dangling threads [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hymenoptera</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I sometimes tell people that while in university I unofficially minored in bugs. As a biology student I had many options for my options, but my interest veered sidelong into a course of courses in the entomology department. I exited with a bachelors degree in genetics, but the extra educational suitcase I had brought along [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2021 02:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sunday Runday, and it&#8217;s been a couple weeks since I sat down to write a post. It is a summer break for me, after all, and I&#8217;ve been out on the road, in the mountains, on the lake, and &#8230; as the topic of this post will soon reveal, running through the wilderness. In fact, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Backyard: Macro Photography</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Being all-but-stuck in my own backyard for the better part of two weeks during a health crisis has provided me with ample time to enjoy my own small bit of nature. It has also reminded me —what with the bumble bees, wasps, ants, ladybugs, butterflies, spiders, flies, and so on — that there is a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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