Category Archives: San Diego

Earth, San Diego

Tarantula Hawk

Saw this while off-road biking with my friend John Flood in San Diego’s Mission Trails Park this past August.  I didn’t know what it was as we don’t have any of these (any more?) in the Connecticut-New York-Pennsylvania area I grew up in.  But John knew that it was both called a Tarantula Hawk and that it was a spider wasp.  I know insects are strong.  But watching the wasp drag a comatose tarantula through the grass filled me with respect, awe, and a more than a little gratitude that insects are currently sized as they are.

[quicktime]http://www.terezakis.org/itp/video/tarantula-hawk-mission-trails-sd-2013_7225.mov[/quicktime]

San Diego

NRC to send in more inspectors to failing San Onofre nuclear plant

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:45:01 -0700

Subject: Nuclear Inspectors descend on San Onofre – NRC will have
meeting open to public to discuss preliminary findings

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to discuss preliminary
findings with Edison at a meeting that will be open to the public,
with inspection team members available to answer people’s questions.
A date for that gathering won’t be set until much of the inspection
is completed. A written report with more extensive findings will be
issued within 30 days of the site visit.

Full article:

NRC to send in more inspectors to Edison’s failing nuclear plant
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/mar/15/nuclear-inspectors-descend-san-onofre/