#MastoPrompt #gall
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#poem #poetry
The wormwood and the gall
Behold my cup o'er flows
A draught that would appall
But still the measure grows
They spring from depths with force
From wounds that never close
And ne'er exhaust the source
Cold hatred of my foes
Should I myself chastise?
No! Rather let's progress
I drink to their demise
And mine as well I guess
The #MastoPrompt: March 3, 2025 is:
#gall
#MrWhiskers
A tepid breeze wafted through the open door to the catio. Mr.Whiskers was interested in the outdoors today. It wasn't terribly cold for a change. He was shocked to find the orange cat right up at the screen on the catio. What gall! It was HIS catio! She looked at him curiously, hoping he'd be friendly, but he wasn't thrilled with her boldness. Bah! Girls were so weird. It was too much work to fend her off, so he went back in and sulked.
Kissing a bewitched
amphibian seems annoying,
could bring paradise
#dailyhaikuprompt
#frog
#MastoPrompt
#gall
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
#writing
#photography
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she chose to kiss me - (unknown photographer)
The demon Ma’alkoush ran a #conservative household. This included obligatory family dinners.
His half-human daughters, Feast and Slaughter, needed the discipline. They argued with each other a lot. He’d never understand the human need for verbal fighting, when the real physical thing would do.
This evening had been quiet. But then, Slaughter helped herself to more meat, and Feast wasn’t happy.
“Slaughter, you’re so selfish!”
“I’m selfish? You have the #gall—”
“Enough!” Ma’alkoush’s deep voice boomed off the walls and the girls fell silent. He hadn’t meant to scare them. Their human side was very sensitive.
“Slaughter, let Feast have the gall. You can have the spleen.”
I drew his #gall and painted it in the colours of a cosmic rainbow. The canvas was transferred by four yaks who unanimously agreed, relieved the trek would be here and not across a wavy Nepali bridge. He ranted and tried to light up my mister piece but at my request was banned from entering the hallowed spaces of galleries theatres parks and other such spaces needing no mention right now. It was pretty and ugly too. Satisfying.
@stevencudahy #MastoPrompt (gall) #vss #storylines
who else has the gall
gamble us gamble it all
prepare for the fall
In front of everyone, the boss yelled, "Do you realise the damage your #inept actions have caused?"
His assistant gaped. "But I didn't—"
"Even a #conservative estimate says we've lost half our clients!"
I tried not to grin at my neighbour. Sick of his #gall in passing off our work as his own, we'd "planted" a few surprises.
"I've no choice but to let you go." He glared around the room. "All of you."
Whoops.
The #MastoPrompt for Monday 3 March 2025 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
Mossy Rose Gall Wasp (Diplolepis rosae) Gall
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mossy_Rose_Gall_Wasp_(Diplolepis_rosae)_Gall_-_Kristiansand,_Norway_2021-08-11.jpg
It's the first #WaspWednesday of 2025! Let's start the new year off with a gall wasp double-shot.
This lovely two-toned lady goes by Disholcaspis quercusmamma, or D.q. mamma for short. Upon becoming an adult in fall, she chews her way out of the gall she's lived in since spring. Being parthenogenic she has no need to mate in order to lay eggs that will be the spring sexual generation.
Sadly not all of her kind will make it to adulthood..see next post
#gall #gallWasp #wasp #insect #hymenoptera
Rolled out of bed, looked out the window, and there's a Downy Woodpecker digging its breakfast out of a Thistle Stem Gall Fly gall. Pic of the damage in replies. #InsektenSamstag #gall #birds #BackyardEcology #Woodpecker #Manitoba #insect
https://youtube.com/shorts/Q94qj04aq9g?si=Y5vi2pMVAet03-iu
(Re)view: "Can fake galls attract real helpers?" Laura Campbell highlights the main findings of Giannetti. D. and collegues new article about the effect of 3D-printed oak galls on the presence of arboreal ants, and its possible implications for future developments in pest management.
https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2024/10/11/can-fake-galls-attract-real-helpers/
Original Article: Introducing 3D-printed oak galls as artifcial nests for arboreal ants, with frst results on leaf damage reduction on olive trees
Giannetti, D., Schifani, E., Saccomano, M. & Grasso, D.A.
https://myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=1638&Itemid=444
#Fraunhofer #Cuvier #Gall #Phrenologie #Zwischenkieferknochen #Naturwissenschaft #Sammlung #Wissenschaftsgeschichte #Kultur
More than just leaves fall in the Fall. I came across these chonky wasp galls on a fallen oak leaf on my walk yesterday. I have to wonder if one of the inspirations for various cursed fruit fairy tales was some hungry person in the autumn biting into a gall thinking it was a peach and being very disappointed.
Gall of Asteromyia carbonifera (Cecidomyiidae) on goldenrod. The gall is made by a fungus, Botryosphaeria dothidea, which creates a hard, internal pocket (stroma) that makes it difficult for parasitoids such as Torymus capite (Chalcidoidea) to find the larvae inside. Female midges collect conidia of this fungal species and store them in special pockets (mycangia) on their ovipositors. #fly #diptera #insects #entomology #macro #fungi #mutualism #gall #galls #GallWeek
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