Airmid's Path

08/15/2026

Herbs are good for tea or a nice cocktail! If you’re local check out this super cute new lounge in Louisburg 🍸 🌿

08/07/2026

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05/09/2026

05/08/2026

A bill introduced in the North Carolina Senate aims to legalize personal and medical cannabis use with limits. Details - https://www.foxcarolina.com/2026/05/08/nc-bill-puts-cannabis-decriminalization-up-public-vote/

03/20/2026

If you’re looking for help with your dog, Susan at Paws 4 Peace USA is amazing!

03/20/2026

Interesting

Sorry about the ugly dirt tubes I'm building on your siding.

I know what you're thinking. Wasp nest. Colony. Stinging. Danger. None of that is true.

I'm a Mud Dauber. A solitary wasp. I don't have a colony. I don't have workers. There is one of me. I built this nest alone, and I have nothing to defend with a swarm because there is no swarm. You could stand two feet from my nest and I wouldn't care. I'm busy.

I'm building a pantry.

Each mud tube on your siding contains individual cells, and each cell is stocked with paralyzed spiders and one egg. I hunt spiders, sting them with venom that paralyzes but doesn't kill, carry them back to the tube, pack them in alive, lay an egg on the last one, and seal the cell with mud. When my larva hatches, it has fresh food waiting.

One nest means I've removed hundreds of spiders from the area around your house in a single season.

There are three types, and they don't all hunt the same prey.

The black-and-yellow mud dauber builds the classic tubes. She hunts crab spiders, orb weavers, and jumping spiders — the ones you find in and around your garden vegetation.

The organ pipe mud dauber builds parallel tubes that look like pipe organ pipes. She also hunts web-building spiders.

The blue mud dauber — metallic blue-black and iridescent — hunts black widows. She finds the widow's web, taps on the silk to mimic trapped prey, and when the widow comes out to investigate, she strikes. She paralyzes the widow and stocks it in a mud cell for her young. She specifically targets widows and their relatives. She doesn't even build her own nest — she finds an abandoned mud dauber nest, softens it with water, restocks it with paralyzed widows, and seals it back up.

🌿 How to read the nest:

- Sealed tubes with smooth mud caps — active. Larvae developing inside. Spiders still being delivered. Leave it alone
- Tubes with small round holes — the adults have emerged and left. The nest is empty. Scrape it off if it bothers you
- Open-ended tubes — still under construction. She's actively hunting and packing
- source- guardians of nature

03/06/2026

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