If you're in the US, I recommend aster. They bloom in fall and bees love them. I have bush growing in my yard and last fall it was completely covered with bees every day until winter. The bushes aren't large but they don't really looking like much until fall.
I've seen seeing posts all over Lemmy about bots inundating instances with sign-ups. I'm just wondering if mander.xyz is doing OK.
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Coneflowers and beebalm.
Yes, I killed that spotted lanternfly after I took the photo.
I have a pitcher plant and I don't do anything to it but water it every other day (when it's warm). However, my house has an ant problem in the warmer months and my pitchers are constantly filled with ants. I haven't had to feed any of my carnivorous plants manually.
This is the second year I've had them (Monarda fistulosa). I think they were already a season old by the time I planted them in my flower bed. I had also planted red beebalm (Monarda didyma) and spotted beebalm (Monarda punctata) in the same flower bed. Both of the latter flowered the first year and the red beebalm is already flowering this year. However, the M. fistulosa didn't flower last year and show no signs of flowering this year. They just keep getting taller. I'm certain they're getting enough sun light. Every other flower around them requiring full(er) sun are creating bulbs. I would say this bush is just a dud, but I planted two of these and they're both having the same issue.
Anyone have ideas?
This reminds me of a controversial post I made in the Star Trek subreddit a while ago. For those of you not familiar, Star Trek in the 90s had a re-occuring character (Vash) who was supposed to be an archaeologist — but in reality, she was just a looter. She was characterized as daring, free-willed, adventurous, etc. Episodes with her in it were full of romance and swashbuckling. In fact, she was a major love interest of Jean-Luc Picard. She didn't do any sort of science or academia, she just went to "exotic" locations to steal artifacts to sell. I made a post criticizing how awful this character is, both in how she was written and her being a poor representation of modern archaeology. And how characters like her encourage people to become pothunters (looking at you, treasure hunter shows on Netflix and "History" Channel), which removes artifacts from their context — often more important than the item themselves. Once antiquities become commodified and sold to the highest bidder, they are isolated from our collective knowledge and regular people (and academics) no longer have access to this knowledge. It's dangerous when only the wealthy can "own" the past.
I could tell by my post statistics that I had struck a nerve. Many people did not agree with my assessment and defended her. It's clear that the American (and Western) psyche has been poisoned by notions of Western heroism with non-westerners/indigenous cultures as only a backdrop to highlight such heroism: these people aren't as "real" as you nor I, therefore it's our right to take and create "glory" for ourselves.
For certain Indiana Jones' legacy is fraught. I admit that his films did inspire me, in part, to pursue anthropology. But the more I learned about the history of anthropology, the more saw how much it has to make up for with its racist and imperialist past. I was hoping the Indiana Jones franchise can "grow" with the times, but then it put out the heaping pile of garbage that is Crystal Skull. The whole "aliens built them" conspiracies are rooted in racism and encourages the erasure of indigenous/non-Western accomplishments