Our weather has been politicised which is unfortunate as we were taught not to discuss religion or politics and now "Weather" is both political and religious.
For the Alps precipitation is on its way this month. We had a early spring with plenty of rain. I'm sure the fine hot weather is good for something.
We had the massive volcanic eruptions last year in Tonga, the continuing eruptions at various volcanos forcing a change to air quality around the world. Now we have multiple sun flares, which effect the earth in blasts of solar radiation.
Will we get this winter the Ice Age predicted here by The Radio Times in 1974?
Enjoy the heatwave, its a gift from the Earth, Moon and the Sun.
If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different ...
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