Bees use rose pedals to build nests:
https://www.treehugger.com/these-special-bees-craft-nests-flower-petals-4854056
https://www.treehugger.com/these-special-bees-craft-nests-flower-petals-4854056
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Another year over and what have 'we' done? The world is burning, civil wars raging, the majority of humans and most nonhuman animals on this planet suffering and continuing to experience the effects of rampant capitalism. Video: https://www.facebook.com/directactioneverywhere/videos/496117657687803/UzpfSTY2OTcwOTgyNjoxMDE1NzY5OTA4MDM5NDgyNw/   May Berenbaum, professor of entomology and head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois on the insects crisis: read the article here.
More 16th c. gorgeous pictures here: Drawn to Nature And the 21st c. praying mantis who landed on my toe while listening to life's noises on Kefalania earlier this summer.
Read the details of fungi as the ancestors of complex life forms in an article published in The Conversation: text   It has been estimated (in 2019) that between 0.79 and 2.3 trillion fish (i.e. 790,000,000,000 to 2,300,000,000,000) were caught from the wild globally each year for 2007-2016.
For every fish pulled out, human beings throw in 5 grammes of plastic; i.e. 11.5 trillion grammes or more than 11 million tons per year. Justin Hofman's award-winning picture captures this sad situation very well. Such pictures create a sensibility for the vulnerable state of fish and other sea creatures. It fosters the kind of empathy the edutainment of the Oceanium can never achieve. Hopefully the citizens of Basel reject the project on 19 May! If you are a Basler-Städter/in: please vote NO! Update: yes, it was a NO! :-)
Have a quiet rest(ing) of the old year and a happy tumbling into the new one - whenever, wherever. Animated by the wind http://www.strandbeest.com/photos.php |
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