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mirbisduschoen · 3 months

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Resident Evil AU/original location

What if the Metamycete in Romania and its spinoff in Dulvey wasn't the only humungous fungus around? What if there was another one, in, say, Eastern Oregon? Sort of like a bioweapon version of this:

The major difference in my AU from "just another RE game" is that Metamycetes as a whole tend to amplify and echo the prevalent emotions of the people attuned to it, while granting them immortality. The Romanian fungus is attuned to a sociopath driven mad by grief who's been packing the fungus to bursting with terror, pain, suffering, and anguish for 100 years straight, and the Dulvey spinoff of that fungus is attuned to a mentally unstable and incredibly traumatized child who has never known kindness in her entire life and is so desperate for human contact that she'll brainwash people into being her new family. It's like programming: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

The other fungus, located in and around the fictional town of Devil's Butte, Oregon, isn't like that. Mayor Malder has been very careful to do the exact opposite and ensure the townspeople are doing well emotionally and financially. The town is prospering in a way that small, non-tourist-trappy towns in the United States in the early 21st century generally aren't. As a result, the Mold is healthy (it's colored white instead of black), and Devil's Butte is a pocket of the sort of Norman Rockwell small-town Americana that doesn't exist anymore, with some modern Oregon tweaks like liberalism, racial diversity (to the best of their ability, it's still rural Oregon), legalized weed, and gay marriage.

Mayor Malder, although perpetually the incumbent, has made it his mission to improve on his previous term, every term he serves. How long has he been doing this? He first ran in 1896, went through a stress-induced breakdown, ran off into the woods, encountered the Pale God (the good opposite of the Black God from RE: Village) who gave him immortality and a pep talk, and proceeded to turn the town around. He's got three forms: normal old man (his default form for all public appearances), "Mother Miranda but male and with doves instead of crows" (very rarely used), and "OH MY GOD A BIBLICALLY ACCURATE ANGEL" (never used before, God willing it never will be, because that's the "We're Being Invaded" body).

He also has a Cabinet of people he's given abilities to via the Mold, something that healthy Mold can do naturally and on command but that The Connections crudely modified Eveline's mold to do via disease-like infection and that Mother Miranda had to brute-force via cadou.

His Cabinet includes, but isn't limited to:

Sunshine Daniels, an ex-hippie lady turned weed grower. Producer of the highly-sought-after, Mold-altered strain "The Goodest Shit", which isn't moldy itself per se, but has been modified via the Mold's gene-altering properties to give a longer and stronger high than anything else on the market. Ms. Daniels met the Mayor in the mid to late 70s as the hippie movement was starting to run out of steam, and started her weed-growing career running a small drug empire peddling The Goodest Shit to college students prior to the legalization of weed.

2. Jane Malheur, proprietor of "Jane's Antiques & Curios", an antique store that is rumored to be haunted, and draws tourists in for the creep factor. Jane claims to be the third-generation proprietor of the business, which has been there since the 1890s, but she is Jane I, not Jane III. She has been hiding her immortality from tourists by pretending to be her own granddaughter, who doesn't actually exist. The reason the store is rumored to be haunted is that she used her Mold powers to bring some antique porcelain dolls, other toys, and a vintage department store mannequin to life to help her with the business in her old age. (She was already old when she joined the Cabinet in the 1930s.)

Imagine being a meth addict and breaking into the place at night for cash, and you think there's a person there, counting cash, but you get a good look and there's just a static mannequin. You could have sworn you saw movement though. You look away, and when you look back it isn't there. You whirl around, wondering where the mannequin went, but there's this 50s women's face painted onto a plastic mannequin, with unsettlingly lifelike eyes that you realize aren't painted on at all, leaning in just inches from your face. As you run to get the fuck out of there, antique dolls track your movements with their heads. (Don't worry, they don't hurt anyone, they just like to troll people.)

3. The OG member of the Cabinet and an old fly-fishing buddy of Mayor Malder, an old Southern gentleman named Samuel Clemens. Yes, that Samuel Clemens, the one who's better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. His mold powers allow him to heal any wound instantly, on him or on another Mold-touched individual. Heck, maybe if Ethan Winters swings around town he could get his fingers back! His healing powers are like a more potent and versatile version of Ethan Winters' ability to pour hydrogen peroxide on a severed limb and reattach it, fully functional, in 30 seconds by pressing the stump and the limb together like he's trying to glue something at the arts-and-crafts table. Both Samuel and Ethan's toolkit have one important thing in common, though: G U N

"Pecker, I just might!"

4. Wally Wyman, owner of the local (small) amusement park, Wally's Wonderland. Wally's Wonderland has a sort of "Babes In Toyland" vibe, lots of nutcracker-type antique toy soldiers and other copyright-friendly symbols of childhood joy. He's also the local mechanic who runs Wally's Garage, and his Mold powers include the ability to imbue Mold consciousness into mechanical items. His car, a 1932 Cord 812, is alive and named Henrietta after Wally's mother. The last time someone tried to steal Henrietta's parts, Wally had to convince her to spit the thief out, as she's got flesh and blood under the upholstery and metal and took offense to a meth addict trying to pull her grille off for the scrap metal value. (She's not like Christine. Although she IS pretty attached to Wally, there's more of a platonic "exasperated middle-aged dad/chaos gremlin nine-year-old girl" kind of relationship between them)

The old animatronics at Wally's Wonderland are also alive, and although locals know they are, they act like cheap, unrealistic animatronics for the tourists who stop for chili dogs, go-kart racing, octopus rides, teacup rides, cotton candy, an arcade so old all its games are now nostalgic and retro (Anyone for a game of Street Fighters I? What about Pong?), and the pride and joy of the park, "Devil's Twister", the only British-style helter-skelter amusement park ride in the United States! (It's a slide. That's what a Helter Skelter is. It's a spiraling slide you go down on a little mat. Also the name of a banger Beatles song!)

There's also the Order Of The Pale God, an honest-to-God 19th century secret society a la the Odd Fellows, which is a syncretic mixture of the normal 19th century secret society occultism and very heavy influences (and membership) from the Northern Paiute tribe of Native Americans, who have lived in the area (and known about the Mold) for millennia. As you can probably expect, they worship the Pale God. They also do soup kitchens, run several nonprofits, and generally do their level best to ensure the vibes in town are as immaculate as possible. It is their duty, and their calling. The Pale God demands His supplicants and denizens be happy and content, for only then can He be happy and content as well. The Head Of The Order is a certain William Pamahas, a half-Northern-Paiute-half-white person who founded the Order all the way back in the 19th century, and has been rewarded by the Pale God with long life.)

I'd imagine this place would send Chris Redfield into conniptions because there is CLEARLY bioweapon activity going on but everyone's OK with it??? And there aren't any mysterious disappearances or confirmed kills???? At all????????

I'd imagine he first gets alerted that orbital bioweapon detector scan things have detected a large accumulation of Metamycete in Oregon, so he investigates the town closest to the center. One of the BSAA interns is actually from Devil's Butte but never figured out anything was amiss when they lived there, and is just like "Damn, Jack Malder is still mayor? Man, he's been mayor for as long as anyone can remember!"

And Chris decides to go investigate in person, gets treated with hostility by everyone in town who's in on the secret and quite a few people who aren't (because ACAB here in Oregon), and gets gaslit by Wally's boys when he pokes around to investigate. Imagine Chris going there and asking questions, and The Boys (as the townsfolk know the animatronics) are trolling him by using their internal Mold reservoirs to make their proportions just slightly off every time Chris looks away: he turns away and as he turns he realizes that the Tin Soldier animatronic is looking right at him with an unsettlingly realistic grin with actual teeth that are too long and too numerous, and then when he double-takes the Soldier's face is normal.

EDIT: Sunshine Daniels has to wear very thick gloves at all times, because her Mold power is that she can give a contact high to anyone she makes skin-to-skin contact with, like through a handshake.

ANOTHER EDIT: The Devil's Twister in Wally's Wonderland has a somewhat tinny PA system which plays "Helter-Skelter" by the Beatles on loop. At the exit of the ride, behind theft-proof bulletproof glass with an honestly comedic amount of locks (most of which are just there for show, it's a couple of expensive German locks that do most of the security), lies Wally's greatest achievement: a binding legal document from Columbia Records giving him rights to use the song on his ride in perpetuity, made possible by writing John Lennon and Paul McCartney a letter back in the 60s, asking if he could use it, and the Beatles thought it was cool that there was a helter-skelter in America so they persuaded the execs to allow it, but only for this one tiny little ride in the middle of nowhere (the execs thought they were so clever)

It's theft-proof because meth heads + out-of-the-way area + signed document bearing the signatures of two of the four Beatles = someone not in their right mind looking at this marvel of achievement of the common man's victory over suits in boardrooms, hands trembling from withdrawal, and seeing nothing but dollar signs.

YET ANOTHER EDIT: The hobo who tried to strip Henrietta for parts was fine, just slightly bruised around the midriff where the hood got him and in desperate need of new pants. The local police are vaguely aware of the whole mold thing, but the general consensus among them

STILL ANOTHER EDIT: The local police are considered A-OK by townsfolk, because they're Good Old Town Boys (And Girls And Nonbinary) and the town's adoption of improved screening has done wonders in ensuring that corrupt psychos never get a badge in HIS town. Devil's Butte PD still do foot patrols, an extreme rarity among post-1950s US police forces, are given (informal) training in de-escalation, and are equipped similarly to 1950s police forces: no tanks and assault rifles to be found, only revolvers and spiffy Norman Rockwell uniforms! (They do have bulletproof vests, though, but they're the subtle kind for under the shirt to decrease intimidation factor without compromising protection.) Furthermore, since the foot patrol beat cops most often have stations and patrols in the neighborhood(s) they live in, this incentivizes good behavior as it would be rather awkward as an off-duty cop talking to your next door neighbor over the fence like a pair of 1950s dads and suddenly having to explain why he saw you taking bribes.

The townsfolk don't like authority figures from outside town, though, as they are keenly aware they've got the singular, only-of-its-kind American police department that actually serves and protects instead of shooting people because acorns fall on the shiny cop cars. The town's general feeling in regards to the feds in general and the BSAA in particular is "Fuck off, we're doing just fine on our own. Glory to the Pale God and contentment be upon us."

#resident evil #chris refield #resident evil au #humongous fungus #oregon #re7 #re8 #bioweapon #mark twain #samuel clemens #Mark Twain says ACAB

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starzalign · 1 year

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The last of us zombies make biblically accurate angels look pleasing. Seeing fungus makes me wanna gag

#last of us #starzalign #ellie the last of us #joel and ellie #hbo max

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lordelmelloi2 · 9 months

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1) Rose 2) Waver is the ant and Rose is the cordyceps fungus 3) Waver is the dog and Rose is the master but it can be easily swapped 4) Rose is the first to die always because of his devotion and it would be by Nero style 3-day affair 5) cocaine sadly 6) Rose licking up Waver's cigarette ash 7) Rose is Julius Caesar and Waver is Brutus 8) Not biblically accurate to put them in that role 9) But Jesus did want it though; Julius Caesar knew it was coming and felt it crawling upon his back -- pride is not a matter when the blade sinks into the flesh, the instinct of survival triumphs beyond it, unless the blade plunges again and again and again to cease all breath held 10) Waver is irrumatus and Rose is irrumans; but Rose is pedicatus and Waver is pedicans 11) They kissed. They kissed a lot. They kissed until they became one person, suddenly lonely in their familiarity. You cannot kiss yourself as a single person, if it comes to that. 12) Waver is heads and Rose is tails 13) Rose is the hole punched out and Waver is the surrounding coin but it can go either way 14) Yes. 15) Yeah. 16) Yeah, yeah… 17) Don't stop. 18) Yeah. Keep going. 19) More. 20) Waver buys Rose flowers 🥰

#waverose

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lenorethequietbookkeeper · 1 year

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Celestia and Luna v The Holders

Djskskdnm oh man we're starting off with the big guns eh?

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v. Charles

This one's not close at all, the princesses through and through. Charles is literally made of a shitload of ash compacted together with magic, so either alicorn (Celestia especially) could unravel his ass in ten seconds flat. I'm sure he could get some hits in, but the twink is getting obliterated for sure.

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v. Ferris

Ok like, in hand to hand combat, Ferris would definitely lose. His regenerative capabilities and tendril veins may help him last a bit, but given Celestia and Luna have literally centuries worth of combat experience, they could easily take him.

Buuuut the thing is Ferris is not a direct fighter, and his preferred technique could actually give him an advantage; luring people into death traps. Shedskin Park is a dangerous place if you already know what you're in for. If he successfully lured the princesses into the forest, Ferris could just wait for one of the horrible things there to kill Celestia and Luna for him. Or he could wait for them to get separated and kill them either from a distance or via some elaborate trap he set up earlier.

Now to be fair, Celestia and Luna aren't total morons so they probably could fight off a lot of the stuff in there...but you also have to keep in mind they're entering a place full of monster fauna, mechanical fish mutants, violent raiders, and that's just what I have set in stone right now.

Final answer though? Once the princesses get their hands on Ferris, he's fucked. But the sneaky shit could also take them down if they're not careful.

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v. John

This one's also not close lol. John is probably the frailest of the holders, it really wouldn't take a lot to kill him. Don't get me wrong, the weather manipulation would likely stall Celestia and Luna a little bit. Still, given they beat Sombra on his own terf, and John doesn't have dark magic to help him out on this, he's definitely losing.

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v. Jeagar

This one's interesting because Jeagar is the most proficient in magic amongst the holders, especially with reality bending via infectious mutation, so he actually would have a chance in direct combat. If the spores or gross goo from the fungus he conjures gets into either princess' bloodstream, then they would eventually either die or get mutated into Lovecraftian hellbeasts.

But this is all assuming this is happening in Jeagar's territory. Realistically, if Celestia and Luna just kept their distance and didn't try directly engaging him, they likely would win. Seriously, if they take skele-nerd out of his element and don't let him flee, I think the two ancient magic horses could blast his ass back to the Jurassic period.

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v. Daniel

This is actually the only one I think the princesses would likely lose on, and that's cause of one advantage Daniel has over Jeagar. While skele-slut basically only uses icky bugs and mushrooms, androgy-droid relies on technology and giant steampunk weapons. Now, all the other holders have and use firearms, but they're all terrible shots and more heavily rely on magic/tricks. Not only is Daniel the best marksman, but his magic is intrinsically tied to weapons.

What I'm basically saying is that he could probably just conjure up a magic gun and take out Celestia and Luna with relative ease, if not horribly wound them. If he can't get space and time to turn some dirt into a gun, he can turn his larger arm into one and use that. And sure, the princesses do have the advantage of being able to fly and teleport, which definitely would drag the fight on, but all Daniel really needs is one good shot...

-From Biblically Accurate Producer!

#zop #zombiesofpythonel #answered ask #fight #ocs #mlp #princess celestia #princess luna #the holders #minors dni #b.a.p.

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cobwebbed-crow · 1 year

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#shitpost #suggestive #original post #poll #polls #nonbinary #queer #swear words #cuss words #i got polls #wow so cool

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ellatamara · 3 months

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Celestial 6 | Angel Wings

I think it's pretty obvious how I got to this point.

#funguary #funguary2024 #art #digital art #mushroom art #fungi #angel wings #biblically accurate fungus #I just think that tag is funny :)#biblically accurate angel #monster design #creature design #monster art #angel art

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crowesscrappile · 3 months

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Funguary day 6: Angel Wings

REALLY HAPPY WITH THIS ONE FELLAS

#artists on tumblr #my art #monster #monster design #illustration #character design #angel #funguary #funguary2024 #fungus #mushroom #biblically accurate angel

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jadenotis1996 · 4 years

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How To Plant And Grow A Grape Vine All Time Best Diy Ideas

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galbraithabhinav92 · 4 years

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How To Grow A Grape Vine On A Fence Mind Blowing Tips

It is for the root system to support the root and ensures sound drainage.It is not ideal for grapevine planting, so these vines are still being developed.But the first season of at least six feet apart.Really classic, expensive wines have probably aged for more profit.

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You have too much water and a good drainage system for maintaining them which includes good soil mixture you have, you can then take on the other hand, to coin a phrase, are a part of plantingGeography like climate and area you live in areas with any type can also result in diseases and take action as soon as the Vitis labrusca grapes very specifically grown in soil that is one of the growth and protect your grape vine.The next thing that growers need to take the right soil to be considered to be really rapid and your strict adherence to an experienced nursery in your own farm label's grape juice identified by its loose skin which is the heart of every grapevine owner.Unfortunately, you cannot make a profit in the months of April and August by using a bit of concrete.Even though you have a winter type climate, there is good to make wine then you are dealing with.

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The Curious Case of the Cannabis Aphid

Chris Roberts of Leafly Reports:

At the time, the bugs crawling on Steve Bailey’s new cannabis plants didn’t seem particularly special. They weren’t even all that annoying.

It was early 2016, during the first few months of Oregon’s legal recreational marijuana market, and a Portland company was running a “grow the best clone” contest. Entrants each received cuttings of the same strain from the same source to see who could grow it best.

“Within a matter of months, you saw everybody having it.”

Steve Bailey, Bull Run Craft Cannabis

And the clones received by Bailey and his partners at Bull Run, a craft “farm-to-jar” cannabis brand with cultivation operations in Boring, Oregon, had bugs.

“We threw them out and that was that,” Bailey recalled. Or it was, for a while. Before long, friends and colleagues—many of whom had participated in the same clone contest—noticed similar bugs crawling on some of their crops. “Literally, within a matter of months, you saw everybody having it,” he said.

Like that, Oregon’s cannabis aphid outbreak had begun.

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A Bug’s Life

As anyone who grows marijuana (or has tried) knows, unwelcome visits from insects are an occupational hazard. Bailey, who grew up on a traditional farm in the Willamette Valley, identified them as a “normal lettuce aphid,” he said.

He wasn’t alone. Other cannabis farmers in the area initially mistook the unidentified bug as a green peach aphid, hop aphid, or other common pest, said Joshua Vlach, an entyomologist at the Oregon Department of Agriculture.

The real culprit, it turns out, was Phorodon cannabis—literally the “cannabis aphid”—a pale yellow creature first identified and catalogued by an Italian researcher in the 1860s. For whatever biological reason, the bug evolved to feed on only plants of the genus Cannabis sativa.

Bailey believes the clone contest helped the bugs proliferate through Oregon. As for how the insect made it to the clone contest, somebody—nobody knows who—probably did what they weren’t supposed to and brought clones or cuttings across state lines.

“Colorado saw it before we did, so I would say that I suspect it came from clones from another region,” Vlach said via email. “Having said that, it is possible it was here in low levels or misidentified from the start.”

Even after they were identified, the aphids continued to spread across the state. By the end of 2017, they’d become so pervasive that the Oregon Department of Agriculture issued a statewide pest warning advisory.

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High Stakes

Cannabis is a plant whose hardiness as a “weed” is often overestimated. Like any crop, cannabis plants are susceptible to a host of biological threats. A few years before Bailey confronted the insects crawling on his clones, growers in Oregon and Northern California grappled with a particularly virulent outbreak of hemp russet mites, bugs that routinely plague both indoor and outdoor cannabis crops.

“I can find it in every county in Colorado where I have looked, and I know of it being found in Oregon, Minnesota, Virginia, and Ontario.”

Whitney Cranshaw , entomologist, Colorado State University

So far, cannabis has yet to see a mortal peril on par with those that have periodically hammered other agricultural commodities, such as wheat, tulips, and wine. In the late 1800s, for example, the French wine industry was devastated by an outbreak of an insect of its own: phylloxera, the grape aphid, which was likely carried into the country on plant cuttings imported from America.

Even with modern industrial agriculture—and, some may argue, in part because of industrial agricultural practices such as massive monocultures in controlled environments, which attract pests but often not the predators that feed on them—phylloxera remains enough of a threat to influence grape-growers’ practices to this day. Which raises the question: What if the cannabis industry collides with a phylloxera of its own? And could a bug like the cannabis aphid qualify?

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A Smuggler’s Stowaway

Whitney Cranshaw is an entomologist at Colorado State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences. You could call him a bug guy. More accurately he is a pest guy—an expert in mites, beetles, and other insects that regularly plague farmers.

The first confirmed sighting of the cannabis aphid in North America was in 2016, he said, the same year as the Portland clone contest. Since then, the bug has spread rapidly—or at least reports of it have.

“Since then, I can find it in every county in Colorado where I have looked, and I know of it being found in Oregon, Minnesota, Virginia, and Ontario,” Cranshaw told Leafly. “I suspect the insect is very widespread in North America and has been moved about on cuttings and live plant material for quite a long time.”

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Before 2016, the only confirmed sightings of the bug were in Europe or Asia. It’s likely, experts say, the aphids came here on the same boat or plane that smuggled an African or Asian landrace cannabis strain to the American market.

“It possibly could have come here on eggs, but probably on a cutting someone smuggled in years ago,” Cranshaw said. “Somebody brought it here on a cutting.”

Critter Control

(Elysse Feigenblatt/Leafly)

The growers at Hi-Fi Farms, a large cultivator near Portland, first heard about the cannabis aphid through the ODA alert. The insect has yet to make an appearance there, according to Haley Poole, Hi-Fi’s head of compliance and quality-control, which she said is a very good thing.

“There’s not a lot of research around cannabis and pest management,” she explained, making it difficult to know how to control the critters. “And there’s no pest-management practice that’s working on [the aphids] aside from pyrethrins.”

But the allowable level of pyrethrins on state-legal cannabis is so low, Poole said, “if we did use it, we’d have to throw out the crop.”

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The fact cannabis remains federally illegal makes the response that much more complicated. “If we ran into this problem and we wanted to send a plant to [the state Department of Agriculture] to get tested,” she said, “we couldn’t send the plant,” because the US Postal Service still deems cannabis products “non-mailable.”

So Hi-Fi has leaned heavily on prevention, such as making sure workers’ clothes are clean before entering grow areas and checking incoming soil and clones for contamination. Bailey at Bull Run reacted similarly. He saw the bugs early and the plants were pitched in the trash, he said, early enough for them to not contaminate the whole operation.

From a market perspective, if the aphid were to spread all over the state and devastate the state’s cannabis crop, many growers may secretly count it as a blessing.

So much cannabis has flooded Oregon’s market that prices have dropped by 50% since 2015, according to a recent state analysis. A plague like the cannabis aphid could in theory take care of the oversupply problem. More likely, however, an infestation is more likely to turn a good crop into a mediocre one and render a borderline crop unsaleable.

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Luckily for most growers, then, the cannabis aphid doesn’t appear to be that kind of biblical pest. For a parasite, the bug is relatively well-behaved. It’s less aggressive or deadly than other pests, such as the root aphid or russet mite, and since it needs the plant for food, it’s less likely to kill off a crop.

“If you let it get out of control,” said Bailey at Bull Run, “it’s really your own fault.”

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https://www.leafly.com/news/science-tech/the-curious-case-of-the-cannabis-aphid

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