[Leica] IMG: Cranefly (bottoms up)

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

We gave up on getting rid of the weeds, so I just mow it over and let it be. 
;)

Gene

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From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:55:08 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Cranefly (bottoms up)

We had truckloads of fill dirt brought in to fill in after we finished
moving the house.  Unfortunately, the fill dirt was absolutely full of weed
seeds, including awful stuff like bitterweed and Jimson weed.  The birds
seem to love it, but the weeds are now taller than I am!  We've been advised
that the only way to get rid of the weeds is to solar heat the soil:  spread
clear plastic over it all and let it sit and bake in the sun.  Since the
temperature today was 102, I think we should have started already.  It's
going to take a LOT of plastic.

Tina

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:37 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at 
mac.com>wrote:

>
> On Jul 11, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Larry Bullis wrote:
>
> > I once had a job to shoot the cranefly and its pupae for a magazine on
> the West Coast of the US called Sunset, which (even now) has as one of its
> major foci, gardening. The editor explained to me that craneflies are
> important pests because the larvae destroy lawns. They eat the roots. He
> said "You'll love craneflies". I got that particular job, I think, because
> he knew that I didn't have much use for lawns in residential settings. It's
> a personal quirk of mine, I guess. I don't like to mow them, I don't like
> how much water they consume, and I prefer things that I can eat. Mostly, I
> don't like the neighborhood politics that revolve around them. I could tell
> stories, I could.
> >
> > A vernacular name for craneflies out here, anyway, is "Mosquito Eaters".
> They don't. They eat lawns, as you say, George, "Bottoms up".
> >
> > What I like especially about this image is that it is clear, easy to
> read, and perfectly descriptive. If you have ever seen one of these things,
> the recognition is immediate.
>
> > On 7/11/11 6:54 PM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:
> >> NIce almost abstract photo. Cheers, Michiel Fokkema On 10-7-2011 23:25,
> >> George Lottermoser wrote:
> >>> >  <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=5472>
>
> wonderful story Larry.
> my "lawn" contains about 10% grass, 20% clover
> and 70% of "other" which most would call weeds.
> wish I had the resources to grind it all under
> and plant wild flowers and food.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
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> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
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