… of all the Leps I ’ ve photographed
My Mothematics Gallery can be found on my Imaging Storm photography site along with other invertebrates, flora and fauna, etc. I’ve written about several of the species I’ve seen for various outlets, but haven’t yet got around to adding all of the links to this list #bearwith
Moths
Aethes francilana/beatricella (Walsingham, 1898/Fabricius, 1794)
Agapeta hamana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agonopterix heracliana-ciliella agg NFM 2020
Agonopterix purpurea (Haworth, 1811) NFM 2021 (MYO lure)
Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa, Linnaeus, 1758)
Arches, Buff (Habrosyne pyritoides, Hufnagel, 1766)
Arches, Dark (Apamea m...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 10, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: Hidden Coinfections and Chain Reactions Parasitic Infectious Relationships within Us
By SIMON YU, MD, LT COL, USA (Ret)
Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), opened up a new front in the Coronavirus War by saying we don’t just need to treat the acute disease, we need to treat the underlying conditions that make people more susceptible to serious disease progression. He focused on heart disease, and managing mitigating risk factors such as CVD, diabetes, hypertension and smoking in order to increase people’s odds for recovery. The initial focus has been pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), with risk factors including asthma, chr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 CDC chronic disease holistic care Pandemic SDoH Source Type: blogs
Phytonutrients: Paint your plate with the colors of the rainbow
Did you know that adding color to your meals will help you live a longer, healthier life? Colorful fruits and vegetables can paint a beautiful picture of health because they contain phytonutrients, compounds that give plants their rich colors as well as their distinctive tastes and aromas. Phytonutrients also strengthen a plant’s immune system. They protect the plant from threats in their natural environment such as disease and excessive sun.
When humans eat plant foods, phytonutrients protect us from chronic diseases. Phytonutrients have potent anti-cancer and anti-heart disease effects. And epidemiological research sug...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Stuffy Nose and Cough Remedies for Kids
Kids are not small adults. That may seem like something so obvious that it goes without saying. Yet for decades the doses for many medicines, including over the counter cough and cold medicines were set by just starting with adult doses and reducing them according to children’s smaller size. It turns out, this often does not work. Kids deserve better.
Before puberty, the hormonal environment within children’s bodies is significantly different than the hormonal environment in adults. Children’s bodies are set in the “rapid growth and development mode”. Young adults are in the “maintain an...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - February 26, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Colds Cough Remedies Stuffy Nose Source Type: blogs
Stuffy Nose and Cough Remedies for Kids
Kids are not small adults. That may seem like something so obvious that it goes without saying. Yet for decades the doses for many medicines, including over the counter cough and cold medicines were set by just starting with adult doses and reducing them according to children’s smaller size. It turns out, this often does not work.
Before puberty, the hormonal environment within children’s bodies is significantly different than the hormonal environment in adults. Children’s bodies are set in the “rapid growth and development mode”. Young adults are in the “maintain and reproduce mode”. Medicines that work well...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - February 26, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Colds Cough Remedies Stuffy Nose Source Type: blogs
What Sweden can teach us about primary care
Fulfilling every stereotype, I sat at my grandparents’ house in southern Sweden, sipping elderberry juice out of an IKEA glass and eating meatballs with lingonberry jam. It was Christmas Eve, and I was enjoying a getaway from the rigors of medical school. However, it wasn’t a complete escape, as my grandparents loved talking about medicine and the differences between health care in the United States and Sweden.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 24, 2014 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Policy Primary care Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - Making Mead and Cyser
The entire family visited Unity Farm for the holidays. After all the gift giving, merry making, and yuletide time by the fire was over, what should a family do at a farm with apples, honey, fermentation equipment (there's a basic chemistry lab in the cider house), spring water, and microbiology know-how? Make mead of course!Mead was the earliest fermented beverage created by man - evidence of honey and fermentation products begins about 9000 BC. Mead figures prominently in Hindu writings, the work of Aristotle, and the Old English poem Beowulf. There's a new vocabulary to learn when deciding how ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 2, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - Reflections on our First Year as Farmers
While I'm traveling in Asia, my wife Kathy is running the farm, ensuring that all our animals are healthy, our last few harvest duties are done, and our preparations for winter have begun.Before I left, I did everything possible to minimize her tasks. I installed heating panels in the duck house so that she could move the duck babies from the brooder to the outside world. I harvested mushrooms from all our fruiting logs. I added yeast and nutrients to our fermenting apple cider. I secured all our gates, cleaned the barn, and finished moving all our building materials into the hoop house.Think...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - October 11, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - Preserving the Harvest
As Fall approaches in New England we're picking apples/fermenting cider, extracting honey, canning jams, preserving vegetables, and finishing our Fall mushroom inoculation.Here are a few scenes of the harvest - a very busy time of year.The Unity Farm orchard contains 36 trees - Apples, Cherries, Peaches, Pears, and Plums. We have 180 high bush blueberry bushes and 150 low bush blueberry bushes. We have elderberry, raspberry, and pecans. Here's an overview of the layout.Last weekend we picked Honeycrisp, McIntosh, and Asian Pear. We crushed the apples into cider and pasteurized ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - September 12, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Ginseng Elderberry Herbal Tea
When the cold and flu season come around I do not go out and get a flu shot. Instead, I make and sip on a mug full of ginseng elderberry herbal tea. The tea contains natural medicinal properties that help prevent the cold and flu effectively.Contributor: Elise MariePublished: Aug 29, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - August 29, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Send home the dancing horses
Yesterday was my annual check-up at the Breast Clinic.
(I also have an annual checkup with oncology, where I usually encounter Dr. Handsome, and my nipples usually misbehave. This was not that. I’m not really sure why I am seen by both teams – in London I was discharged from oncology back to the surgery team, a blessed relief to both sides I’m sure. But hey. an extra check can’t hurt.)
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Yesterday I was trying to be low-key: I’d had the your-mammogram-looks-fine letter, I feel well. As is my wont on hospital days, I chose extra-lovely underwear. I wore my new snowdrop ring (from Entangled Wave) and dressed ni...
Source: Bah! to cancer - July 31, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Cancer Treatment News Recovery From Breast Cancer Tamoxifen Source Type: blogs
Should you Google your Medical Condition?
I listened to an interesting interview with a doctor on the radio in my car that discussed the claim that 1 in 3 Americans use Google to search out medical problems. According to PEW research and reported by Global News in Canada, 35 percent of American adults self-diagnosed this way and 41 percent of people who self-diagnosed have had their diagnosis confirmed by their doctor. My thinking is that it allows people to learn more about their condition and be more informed when discussing treatment options with their doctor.
I did the same thing when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It is conceivable that a cancer diagno...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - January 22, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Breast cancer research breast cancer and the internet medical conditions and the internet Source Type: blogs
Five Ways to Fight the Swine Flu
View the Swine Flu video here.
Winter in North America brings with it yearly uninvited guests- flu bugs- multiple strains of illness causing viruses just waiting for new bodies to infect. The most common recommendation has been to protect yourself with a flu vaccine. But with virtually all the US flu suddenly resistant to the leading antiviral Tamiflu, health officials are worried about where this could lead. Here are some key guidelines you MUST know if you want to survive this year’s flu season.
How can you distinguish a cold from the flu? First understand that colds are minor infections of the nose and t...
Source: Dr. Donna, MedicineWoman - January 25, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Dr. Donna Tags: breaking news Personal Health public health flu influenza pandemic prevention swine flu tamiflu treatment Source Type: blogs
