Congrats! Cute little birb, quite surely a blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus). If you can, try to disturb them as little as possible during the few week it takes for them to raise their offspring. As long as the parents are zipping in and out, they likely find enough to feed their young and don’t need any additional support. Blue tits will only eat seeds and nuts as adults and mostly during the winter. The chicks need small invertebrate prey like insects and spiders. So other than offer some meal worms, there’s not much you can do. Once you see the fledglings hopping around your balcony, some seeds may be fine but stick to smaller stuff like poppy and avoid the big and heavy stuff like sunflower or peanut until winter. Here’s a bit more background if you speak German: https://bremen.nabu.de/tiere-und-pflanzen/voegel/voegelnhelfen/27691.html

Have grazing animals on natural meadows instead of artificially sown lawn and you’ll not only have the trimming taken care of but also support a variety of plant and animal life under your panels. Sheep and bunnies for example are ideal for the job, don’t you think RamRabbit :-)

This article from last November lists the first 83, not sure who the new additions are. https://earth.org/83-countries-join-call-to-end-fossil-fuels-at-cop30/

While true, the AWS infrastructure in Europe is somewhat sovereign from the parent company and under stricter regulation and oversight. Granted, it’s not a perfect solution but a good one for the moment.

https://aws.eu/european-sovereign-cloud/

https://youtu.be/jYQ0B1exOCY

Kein Problem. Dann muss Arbeitszeit auch nicht zum arbeiten genutzt werden.

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Unfortunately, the most American thing this girl had ever heard of is also strongly affecting white-tailed sea eagles and other raptors in Germany and neighboring countries. Choose lead free ammo, folks. https://www.bund.net/themen/naturschutz/jagd/bleimunition/

In remembrance of Catherine O’Hara we’re rewatching Schitt’s Creek. So… am I unemployed?

While there is some weak and inconclusive indication for blood type preference from older publications, the research persistently shows CO2 plume, body odor produced by certain bacteria and heat (mostly in that order to guide the mozzie from several meters away to the exact blood vessel) as most important cues that lead to host identification, attraction and feeding, through all tested anthropophilic/mammalophilic genera within the family Culicidae. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10789295/

As is tradition…

I openly call for the end of the Heritage Foundation. Regards, an EU citizen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgonocephalus

Hawking was probably way more familiar with the works, achievements and maybe even personal anecdotes of everyone in this post than I could ever hope to be. Thus, sitting down with him feels like the best deal.

And they released a concept study, too:

Did you know that mozzie males find their mate via the wing beat frequency? Yes, the annoying zzzzzzzz that keeps you up at night is like a love song to the males and once they are close enough to their desired mozzie lady, they imitate the frequency. If they hit “the right tune” they may approach. Otherwise, the females kick them with their hind legs… looks cute as hell in my opinion.

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You’re absolutely right, Zika is another important arbovirus in this context. Very broadly speaking: Flaviviridae and Togaviridae (mostly of the Alphavirus genus) are frequently reported viruses from Ae. aegypti while e.g. Bunyaviridae are rarely mentioned in connection with them. For Plasmodium species (= Malaria pathogens, single celled-parasites): they do transmit some other forms like avian Malaria, just not those species pathogenic to humans. Also Filaroidea (=little Worms) don’t seem to be transmitted either.

Yeah. I hate to be that guy but since this is sort of related to my job and this is a science community: this is an Aedes Species. Scutal markings are not fully visible but I’d go with Aedes aegypti. They don’t transmit Malaria. They’d be your Yellow Fever, Dengue or Chikungunya Bros, though. Malaria, at least those variants that are pathogenic to humans are almost exclusively transmitted by species from the genus Anopheles.

True because cities have parks, roads, rivers, business, industrial or municipal areas that can’t or shouldn’t be used for housing. But there are neighborhoods almost as dense. Yorkville in NYC has more than 60.000 inhabitants per square kilometer. 160 acres is about 0.65 square kilometers.