8/24/2023 0 Comments Bee with white and black stripes![]() Emergence overlaps with the main availability of the food supply for their nests. A monthlong pupation in June leads to adult emergence in July, completing the life cycle. Larvae feed on the internal tissues and overwinter as mature larvae within a tough, brown-colored cocoon. Wasp larvae hatch within a few days and penetrate the exoskeleton of the immobilized food source. She oviposits an egg on the legs of the prey and seals off the cell. The female drags the Cicada through the entrance opening, down the tunnel and into the nesting chamber. The Cicada is often held upside down and straddled, after which the wasp takes off and glides home to the nest (Fig. This relatively huge prey is laboriously dragged up a tree or tall plant. Both of these very large insects tumble to the ground where the stinger is then utilized to paralyze the Cicada. The female wasp strikes and stuns the Cicada which reacts with a loud shrieking buzz. ![]() The Cicada is used as food to rear the next generation of wasps. Females fly around trees, shrubs, meadows and open areas in search of their only prey species-Cicada species (see fact sheet FS220). BiologyĬicada Killer Wasps feed on tree sap and flower nectar as individual adults. For these cosmetic and psychological reasons, the wasp could be considered a turfgrass pest, although this insect is essentially harmless. Large soil particles are removed with mouth parts and then shoveled through their legs in a dog-like manner.Īggregations of individual tunnels can easily exceed 100 in number and last for many years. They excavate noticeable amounts of soil around their tunnel entrances and create unsightly mounds. Lawns, gardens, flower beds and athletic fields are other preferred nesting sites. If accidentally stung, there is no cause for alarm except for individuals who are especially sensitive to bee or wasp stings.įemale adults often dig their tunnels in a backyard sandbox, a sand trap on the golf course or in a nice sandy picnic area outdoors. Her stinger is primarily used to paralyze prey and rarely used in defense except when trapped in clothing or disturbed by lawn equipment. Females are less commonly observed but when captured or mishandled can inflict a mild sting. Male wasps may aggressively fly right up to people in defense of their nest even though they cannot sting. These wasps can become an unwelcome nuisance as males constantly patrol their underground nesting sites. Homeowners, golfers and picnickers often becoe frightened when in close proximity to Giant Cicada Killers. All four yellowish wings are held straight out when at rest, which is in contrast to most other wasps which fold their wings along their body. All six legs are brightly colored an orangish-red. ![]() Most of the head and parts of the thorax are a dull red (see Fig. Cicada Killer Wasps have a thick-waisted black body that is striped with yellow across the middle section (thorax) and the first three segments of the rear section (abdomen). Both sexes are strikingly colored black, red and yellow which is similar to the warning coloration of common social wasps like yellow jackets which do possess painful stingers. The adults range in size from 1½ to 1¾ inches in length for females and about 1 to 1¼ inches for males. ![]() Identification of this insect is fairly easy just judging on size alone.
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![]() On my desktop I'm still running Linux Mint 18.3 which is based on Ubuntu 16.04. The name itself is exactly what I need to achieve: Cut the big video file into multiple video files without losing quality (lossless). But that's kind of a headache to do, especially when there are easier methods around! It turns out that Kdenlive is unable to handle video clips with multi-channel audio! A workaround would be to export both audio tracks from the video and import both of them again into Kdenlive. To separate the episodes, the video needs to be split.Īt first I attempted to do this with Kdenlive, an open source video cutting tool.Īlthough this worked and I was able to export a cut video as a single episode, I quickly identified a problem: The multi-channel audio was gone. Splitting the video into separate episode filesĪs mentioned before, the problem on these DVDs is that all four episodes are basically chapters of one big video stream. Once clicked on the "Start" button, it took around 2 1/2 hours until the resulting video file was created (with a 48x DVD drive and a 4 core Intel i5 CPU). The selected preset is using Matroska/H.265 as codec, 742x572 pixel display resolution (16:15 aspect ratio) and both audio channels selected. They feature 2 audio tracks (French and English from my DVD box set). The "Once upon a time." episodes on the DVD come with a 768x576 pixel resolution and a 4:3 aspect ratio at 25 frames per second (FPS). The "Preset" selection shows a list of the most common video codecs and video sizes. This will create one large video file with all the episodes (4 episodes on that particular disc). To make this easier (and faster) I kept the original range which includes all chapters. This is certainly a help, however the chapters are not always equal and from this list alone, the correct episode listing cannot be seen. ![]() The "Range" fields define which chapters should be ripped. The episodes are simply "split" into several chapters. But on this particular DVD, all episodes are basically one long film with a duration of 1h 44 mins. Under the "Title" drop-down box, I expected a listing of the different episodes. Just click on the "Open Source" button and select the DVDVOLUME (here on Linux Mint): Handbrake is not only a software to convert videos (using different codes), it also allows to select a DVD as video source. This article is merely a technical guide, how to digitize (personally owned) DVDs on Linux. I am in no way suggesting to do illegal copies. In most countries however a (digital) copy for personal use is allowed. And there are lots (some even considered illegal)! But as I switched from Windows to a Linux desktop years ago, it's time to find out what tools work best on Linux.ĭisclaimer: DVD Ripping/copying/digitizing can be considered illegal in certain countries. Most of the available tools and instructions are based on software for ![]() This means: I need to digitize the optical DVD discs into digital video files. Instead everything is digital, saved on a NAS and streamed through Kodi (using a Wetek Play box) on the TV. ![]() MKV is simply a file container not an encoding system, all universal media players will play standard MKV files.However in my household we do not have a physical DVD player anymore. As MKV merge is joining files not re-encoding them there is no loss in quality. Then using the same encoding settings as before encode each episode as an individual MKV file.įinally use MKV Merge which is part of MKV Tools (Free software) and MKV Merge will allow you to combine or more correctly 'append' each video one after the other and again you will end up with a single file containing all 6 episodes in sequence. In that case change the file extension from MP4 to MKV (Drop down Format window on Summary tab). If every title has roughly the same run time then each one is an individual episode. That title is the index file and if you encoded that, Handbrake would encode all 6 episodes (in this example) in sequence as one file. First check the drop down title list, if there are say 6 episodes on the disc and each one is 30 minutes long, check if one of the titles in the list has a run time around 03:00:00 i.e. 8/24/2023 0 Comments Google translate hebrew voice![]() This means that if you are planning to visit these countries, the translation quality would be much better. The new offline version supports 59 languages, and for some languages (Hindi, Thai, Korean, Polish, and Japanese) it provides 20% better quality. The current Google update for its offline translation provides good accuracy, and the translations are also more natural. However, Google has worked a lot on its offline features, and it is getting better. Previously, users had issues regarding the accuracy and fluency of offline translations because the quality was not as good as online translation. Well, like your online Google translation, offline is not as feature-rich. So, you can download any language pack depending on the country you’re visiting. Offline translations could be very helpful in eliminating the language barriers and enabling communication with people from diversified cultures, speaking different languages. This new update has made this app really useful, especially for travelers. Each language you would download to your mobile will take around 35 to 45 MB of space. If you’re new to this app, you need to go to the offline setting to download the language you want to translate offline. The users who have already been using the previous version of Google Translate would see a banner on their home screen clicking on the banner will redirect them to update their app to the latest version. It supports around 59 languages, including Japanese, Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Korean, Tamil, etc. Google Translate Update for Offline UsersĪccording to Google, the new Google Translate app offers more quality translations offline. There were significant improvements made in translations after the activation of Google Assistant’s interpreter mode on Android phones. Now, there is no need to write the words you want to translate Google would directly recognize the speech and provide quick translations. However, these amazing features also revolutionized the translations. This feature was introduced to support Google messaging app Allo. It uses speech recognition technology to detect spoken words and respond accordingly. Google Assistantĭuring the same time when NMT gained momentum, Google Assistant was first introduced in May 2016. Google has also used the example-based machine translation method to improve the translation quality and create more relevant translations. ![]() It means the translation would only get better with time. The best thing about this technology is that the NMT algorithms learn from their mistakes and get wiser with experience. Now, the translations have become more fluent and easier to understand. NMT uses deep learning to mimic the way the human brain thinks. The powerful neural machine translation algorithms, also known as neural networks, use artificial intelligence to produce more accurate translations. Things have changed a lot for Google in 2015 when they started using the neural machine translation method for translation generation. Till 2012, Google claims that they have translated as much content to fill a million books, daily. It was still convenient enough to understand content and conversations in foreign languages. However, the quality and accuracy of translation were not so good. Google uses a statistical machine translation approach to generate translations. When Google introduced its translation tool as a complementary service in April 2006, it got huge popularity. It was not the first-ever machine translation technology as MT technology has been around for around 70 years. Google has been providing online translation services since 2006. Isn’t it amazing that now you can use Google Translate offline- that too with pretty good accuracy? Google Machine Translation History Statistical Machine Translation There’s a 12% improvement in accuracy, word choice, sentence structure, and grammar. Here is great news for all travelers Google has significantly improved its offline translation features and quality for both Android and iOS users. Yes, there is no need to pay any subscription fee, and you can translate any conversation in real-time. Google Translate provides the most accurate and quick translation services, and the best part is that they are free. Smart MT apps can help you understand any foreign language, and allow you to better communicate with locales. Machine translations are the best way out in this scenario. Have you ever traveled to a foreign country where you don’t even understand the menus at restaurants? 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