u/GDswamp

We have a moderate-but-ineradicable population of clothes moths in our multi-storey, multi-closet NE U.S. home. We also have a fantastic native-plant landscape outside with an increasingly diverse population of native moths and butterflies.

Parasitic trichogramma wasps are marketed as a safe, eco-friendly and highly effective way to get rid of indoor closet moths, but I know very little about the wasps' mobility, life-cycle or natural history. If we use them in our home, are they going to get out and parasitize other lepidopterans? Are they (conveniently for me) host specialists? Or is this an unanswered/unanswerable question?

Rick Devens has always had many fans, but also a healthy population of haters. My gal and I were definitely in that contingent, based entirely on the bitterness that came along with RD's intensity in Edge of Extinction. Now that he's out and we've seen his full S50 run, I can say that he absolutely won us over this time around.

I love aggressive play, but hate when players acts like anyone who writes their name down is committing a moral sin. Never liked Probst-favorite Andrew Savage for that reason. Always feel like, What do you want from people? Original-Recipe Devens was an underdog and a target, and I didn't mind him scrapping, but there was a resentful undertone that grated. I had no real right to judge (I get as hangry as anyone), but I judged anyway.

This season, the way he held onto the risk-taking but did it without the spite - I was converted despite myself. I even caught myself thinking that if I ever played, I'd want to play like him. Remembering to enjoy myself, take risks, treat it like the greatest extreme sport ever, and (as he clearly did on 50) find ways to be kind to my fellow players simultaneously.

Still think Cirie was the best player this season (maybe all-time, despite no wins), but RD is on my all-timers list now, and I hope we'll see him again.

Bernie's has sat on my obsessive little "Places to Try" Google Map list for a few years and I finally got there yesterday. Bartender was very kind, our bar seats were a great place to spend the early evening, and all the plates were generous and looked as good as any Instagram post.

The wedge and the Caesar and the massive pile of fries were all just solid B+ level. Some people would say that those three dishes are too familiar to clear B+ no matter what, but I am not one of those people.

I'm a former long-time NYer who's now a longtime Philadelphian. Sometimes it's good to be reminded that hype is the secret ingredient in the World's Best reputations of many New York spots. Bernie's was a nice time, which is totally respectable, but I don't have to spend any more time daydreaming about it.

(if you agree with the rating, and think there's a Caesar or a Wedge in the city that's as amazing as Bernie's are repped to be, please comment! There's an open spot on my Places to Try list)