Here is a video about a new discovery for me … yellow spider mites. There is a Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Hello, everyone. It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
I was out here trying to optimize irrigation in this backyard, and I ran across something scuttling over the stairs. It looks like yellow spider mites. I never knew there was such a thing. So I am going to try to get a closeup for you.
They are so tiny that I do not think you will be able to see much, but I will show you.
See, this is my hand … [Shows how tiny they are, compared to my hand.] It looks like they are coming out of this hole here. [Shows crack between mortar and paving brick.]
I looked it up. I think these were yellow spider mites. I wonder what their social order is, and what that dance they were doing was about.
I have read that red spider mites bite people and may burrow into their skin. I find they can be suffocated by applying Vaseline thickly and covering that with a bandage overnight.
I read that yellow spider mites are a plant pest, but I do not know if they bite people or burrow into their skin.
Written and published on 7 January 2022 Location: Los Angeles, California
Image: “Supercomputer models of Earth’s magnetic field: On the left is a normal dipolar magnetic field, typical of the long years between polarity reversals. On the right is the sort of complicated magnetic field Erath has during the upheaval of a reversal,” written by Aaron Gronstal, 23 November 2017, in “Research Highlight: Reversing the Geomagnetic Field,” in Astrobiology at NASA: Life in the Universe … https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/reversing-the-geomagnetic-field/ … public domain
Image: “Supercomputer models of Earth’s magnetic field: On the left is a normal dipolar magnetic field, typical of the long years between polarity reversals. On the right is the sort of complicated magnetic field Erath has during the upheaval of a reversal,” written by Aaron Gronstal, 23 November 2017, in “Research Highlight: Reversing the Geomagnetic Field,” in Astrobiology at NASA: Life in the Universe … https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/reversing-the-geomagnetic-field/ … public domain
Dear Ones,
The Laschamp Excursion was a flip of Earth’s magnetic poles for several hundred years that took place 41,000 years ago, per tree ring analysis in New Zealand. Right before the Excursion Earth’s magnetic field weakened, resulting in more cosmic rays hitting Earth …
This must have been a little like what happened on Earth during the recent Solar Minimum that has just ended in the last year or so; during the recent Minimum cosmic rays also flooded into Earth.
Cosmic rays can result in genetic mutations in Earth animals and plants that speed the evolution of some animals and plants … that give them a competitive edge as an Earth species. Or, the genetic mutations can be harmful to the competitive edge of the species, and lead to its extinction.
