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Husky is a line of hand tools, pneumatic tools, and tool storage products. Though founded in 1924, it is now best known as the house brand of The Home Depot, where it is exclusively sold. Its hand tools are manufactured for Home Depot by Western Forge, Apex Tool Group, and Iron Bridge Tools. [1] Its slogan is "The toughest name in tools."
The thistle is the main charge of the regimental badge of the Scots Guards, the oldest regiment in the British Army. Both the Order of the Thistle and the Scots Guards use the motto Nemo me impune lacessit, the motto of the House of Stuart and referring to the thistle's prickly nature.
The adult weevil is black and covered in a thin black and yellowish mottled coat of hairs. It is a short-snouted beetle up to 6 millimeters in total body length. The female lays over 100 eggs on or near the bracts of the thistle flower head. She covers the eggs with masticated plant tissue to protect them from predators.
The $1.4 million scheme Dell and his accomplices carried out is only a drop in the bucket. Retailers suffered more than $112 billion in losses due to shrink last year alone, according to the ...
The weevil Larinus planus also feeds on the thistle and has been used as a control agent in Canada. [43] One larva of the species can consume up to 95% of seeds in a particular flower bud. [44] However, use of this weevil has had a damaging effect on other thistle species as well, include some that are threatened. [45]
Cirsium discolor, the field thistle, [2] is a North American species of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to thirty-three states in the United States as well four Canadian provinces. [3] It occurs across much of eastern and central Canada as well as eastern and central United States.
Thistle funnels are used to add small volumes of liquids to an exact position. Thistle funnels are found with or without taps. The thistle tube shaft is designed to allow insertion through a small hole present in some stoppers , permitting the tube to be inserted into a container such as an Erlenmeyer flask .
Common names include Texas thistle, Texas purple thistle or southern thistle. [2] The species is native to northern Mexico ( Coahuila , Durango , Nuevo León , San Luis Potosí , Tamaulipas ) and the southern Great Plains of the south-central United States (primarily Texas , Oklahoma , and eastern New Mexico with additional populations in ...