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On the aforementioned Eastern Mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum; Durham NC, USA), I was pleased to find:
Soft Scale Insects - family Coccidae (~1-2 mm)
Also uploaded at:
bugguide.net/node/view/1778845
A helpful entomologist on Facebook identifies as:
Brown Soft Scale - Coccus hesperidum
Some of the scale insects have been parasitized by wasps, so we have a hemiparasitic plant, a parasitic insect of that plant, and a parasite of that insect--parasites all the way down.
Tamyia 1/24 Sports Car Series
Sauber Mercedes C9
Item Number 24091
Built circ. 1991ish
Out of the box except for engine detail with wires. Before I knew what Photo Etch was.
Three photos from a photo series on using scales to evaluate your espresso brews.
I like the American Weigh SK-2KG scale because it's cheap ($22), can hold up to two KG (wow), has 0.1g resolution (double wow) and is small.
This photograph earned a third place finish in a photography contest. Picture taken in 1982 with a Canon AE-1 and 50mm lens.
Left to right in the Vancouver showroom are Grandpa Wang, Sharon Xie, William, Yang Ming (the scale model mastermind), Sharon, Grandma Li, and me.
The recently released MP-56 is Trailbreaker, the character that I honestly barely remember being on the show. I remember his G1 toy though.. everyone always kept losing the fists.
Trailbreaker is an officially licensed Toyota Hilux, a vehicle that I've never actually seen in real life. Mind ou, Toyotas were really scarce here in Canada back in the 80s, and it's not like this particular model has a cult following like the Celica did. There are options to make the vehicle mode more toon accurate, which would involve swapping the front bumper piece and adding some stickers, but since my sticker game is terrible I opted to pass on this little endeavor. There's also a little radar dish you can attach to the roof of the vehicle mode.
One immediate thing that fascinated me was that this figure was "Made in China", which means it's not made in the same factory as those horrible Unified Product lines. Also fascinating is the fact that "Made is China" is printed on a sticker and stuck on the box.
Transformation into robot mode is relatively straight forward, though the backpack gave me a bit of trouble due to my inability to read Japanese - eventually figured it out that you needed to deform the rear end of the car a bit to make things connect.
Much like the classic 80's toy, this figure is pretty much all leg. It's actually pretty impressive how tall Trailbreaker is compared to his work friends. I can't remember if the scale is accurate, but I'll presume that Takara did their homework.
Bot mode looks goofy, but in a good way. Lets be honest here - the 80s on screen models weren't exactly works of art, and I feel Takara did a great job at capturing that on this toy. The head is... something else. I know some people were complaining about the size of the chin and other things, but at the end of the day it's nowhere as bad as what we got for MP Ironhide and Ratchet. I'm pretty sure the on screen model didn't have the backpack, but that's basically life of transforming figures without parts forming.
Accessory wise it's decent, but not exactly blowing my mind. You get two additional faces, an additional chromed weapon swap out on the arm, and of course his other hand. There's also a blast effect which is an Acid Spray IIRC.
Articulation is actually pretty good, though the bulk of the torso does interfere with things. Lower body features great range of motion, and there's even an ab crunch type of deal. The shoulders and neck need some more love though. They're functional, yes, but not what I'd expect from a MP level transformer.
Overall, Trailbreaker offers a play experience towards the higher end of MP figures, which makes sense given the MSRP of almost 22,000 Yen, though you'd be insane to actually spend that amount on this figure. It's definitely a more impressive toy than the budget priced Skids, but I have to say that at this price point it's not as good as earlier releases like Sunstreaker and Inferno.
Scientific Name: Psora nipponica (Zahlbr.) Gotth. Schneider
Common Name: Butterfly Scale
Certainty: positive (notes)
Location: Southern California; San Gabriel Mts; Strawberry Peak
Date: 20070824
Close-up of thallus and budding apothecia, at 10x.
This railtrack scale is located at Kepa Zawadowska in Warsaw enroute to the EC Siekierki heat- and powerplant. It is built into the track and measures the weight of 4-axle cars, which bring coal to EC Siekierki. The speed at the scale must be reduced to 3 to 5 km/h max. to allow proper operation. The length of the measuring track is exactly to match the Eaos/Eas railcars' length.
The Eastman Kodak Studio Scale. I refinished the wood with shellac to be period appropriate using real shellac flakes and alcohol. The weights were perfect per my digital scale.
One thing that is recommended to do before releasing hand-reared monarch butterflies is to test them for the parasite Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE for short). This is a protozoan organism that infects monarchs and a few other butterflies and severely reduces their chances of survival. It is passed from the female to the larva via spores sticking to the egg shell (which the larva will eat once it hatches). It can be especially detrimental if infected butterflies make it to wintering sites where so many of them are congregated in a small space, facilitating the spread of diseases.
Testing for OE involves taking a small piece of sticky tape and gently touching it against the butterfly's abdomen. Detailed instructions and videos can be found on the internet. This removes a few scales, but if done gently it does not harm the butterfly. When observed under a microscope, OE would be visible as small, dark spores sticking to the scales. In this case, all you can see is butterfly scales and no spores at all, so my little prince is perfectly clean and healthy and ready to go!
For comparison with adjoining photograph this taken with Olympus Macro 60mm at close focus and then copying an area of about 1/12 full frame.
I have now replaced original with an almost identical shot of same area taken with camera on a tripod, the original was hand held and was certainly not as sharp.