From @us.theconversation.com The Black Death’s counterintuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity. Article by Christopher Lyon & Jonathan D. Gordon. "People can boost nature" theconversation.com/the-black-de...
Red Squirrel rolling around a rotted out stump. Having fun? Grooming?
Pollinators of all sorts enjoying Devils Walking Stick (Aralia Spinosa). After flowering migrating birds feast on the berries.
Discovered a bumble bee nest under a leaf bag. Possibly brown-belted bumble bees?
Wow - the science behind the updated plant hardiness map for #Canada rdcu.be/evpvj. Largest changes in the west/northwest mostly due to warmer temperatures. No changes in some areas, but #Halifax (south-central NS) sees a 0.5 zone increase, changing rain patterns contributing. planthardiness.gc.ca
Picture of a song sparrow nest with four speckled eggs in the midst of old goldenrod stems
Found a Song Sparrow nest at Lakeside today just before Paul Preston, who’s doing a Song Sparrow study this summer arrived to facilitate an urban bird workshop. If you find one let Paul know, he’s looking for 100. #ygk kingstonfieldnaturalists.org/nests-in-the....
Fisher’s story reminds us: winter exists to slow our greed. We must reject the lie of human centrality, remember our stories, and honor the balance of all life. Put down your tobacco, keep your promises. Radical change begins in relationship.
www.thousandworlds.ca/the-end-of-w...
From that lily in your yard, the bees that buzz around it, to the clownfish on TV, you don't need to look far to find examples of how nature breaks expectations.
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social wrote about how "Biology is Bigger than Binaries," because nature laughs at the tiny boxes we put them in.
Big shoutout to newly minted Dr. Gazing Wolf for leading this article published today— thankful to be part of it!
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Plz check out Gabriella Hirst's work on the intersection between war & ornamental cultivars
An English Garden publication is on nuclear weapon development & roses:
gabriellahirst.com/An-English-G...
Battlefield is a garden & publication on 200 war-related cultivars:
www.battlefield.garden/about/
"for every dollar of aid the Global South receives, it loses fourteen through profit repatriation, tax avoidance, debt servicing, and trade mispricing. In total, over $2.2 trillion flows annually from the South to the North" www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Ducks in the pond! Fingers crossed they’ll nest again this year.
"The wildest places out there are urban landscapes. They are the steep embankments where no humans ever go or the spaces between highways. These places are very much the new frontier." Claudia West wonderground.press/people/claud...
Digital drawing of The trans flag as painted stripes.
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility.
There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear.
Our single point of reflection is this:
what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
Branches of Red Osier Dogwood (red willow) coated with ice, with White Pine in background
Red Osier Dogwood (red willow) shrub coated with ice, in the ditch next to a oroad
pictures of the hands of a woman with a knife scraping the bark of Red Willow into a bowl
Enjoying the beauty of Red Willow Mskobiimwish (Red Osier Dogwood) coated in ice, feeling grateful for last weekend's teachings by Elder Deb St. Amant of Mskobiimwish (Red Willow)'s gifts, including use as Asemaa
I've been meaning to read Max Liboiron's book "Pollution is colonialism", they really challenge my thinking assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
screenshot from "A Declaration for Air" prepared by Centric Lab with the words: The Air is alive. They are Kin. They create life. They are part of our Great Creator. They consist of life-sustaining microbes, nutrients and oxygen. Without these element, Air is erased. We are asking for the right for Air to exist freely, expansively and abundantly. When we understand that Air is medicine, they become the medicine our bodies need.
Air is Kin: "Air has a dynamic ecology... The microbiome of the air (the aerobiome) is primarily 'fed' by the soil & vegetation... We inhale the exhalations of plants & diverse microorganisms as they inhale ours––the most magnificent occurrence of unconscious reciprocity." www.thecentriclab.com/aik
"Those that tend the garden via 'conservation' and strange fragmented phrases like 'applied ecologies' of our natural world do so not for the garden, not for the rose, but for the gardeners alone. And what lonely gardens we create." justinthomas.substack.com/p/no-gardene...
"Considering the role of humans in modern landscapes... [it means] sitting, listening, and observing... asking living systems what they need... ...being different people than we are now because we know it doesn’t get fixed until we fix ourselves." Justin Thomas mdc.mo.gov/sites/defaul...
"Does the Land have a Spirit?
Do we show Land Respect?
Do we have Knowledge?
Do we have Wisdom?
Do we Heal? Harm?
Do we foster Community? Ego?
Is breaking virgin Land Progress?"
prairiebotanist.com/2024/08/29/c...
Do you need a nice activity for your lunch break? Check out this overview of nighttime pollination by @emtomology.bsky.social youtu.be/JSrAthMPjyc?...
Graphical abstract of: Answering key bumble bee conservation questions by studying discovered wild nests - A Bombus affinis case study
So, you found a #BumbleBee nest – now what? Read the #conservation importance of studying wild nests & data collection guidance in our newest #RESInsectConsDiv paper on a US federally endangered species🐝
#OpenAccess🔽
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@johnmola.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com
A small sparrow looks up into the bare branches of a tree where a distant crow is perched. "Crows are so creepy," it says, "ominously perched in a dead tree...". The sparrow starts to see the crow with glowing eyes and jagged teeth, "who knows what they're up to...". The crow is now seen wearing strange occult symbols, a strange liquid drips from its eye, it is muttering something in an eerie and unknown language. "Conjuring demons?" the sparrow continues postulating, "Human worship? Rodent necromancy?" The crow is now seen as a normal crow, and the sparrow is right beside it, looking at it, and says: "Teach me your ways"
TINY BEES
#tinybees
"this middle space where language, fact, art, and meaning mingle is where we find the most agency and purpose... we need more members of this chorus making beautiful art of fact and instilling more fact into our art."
Incredible: New proof that #bumblebee queens destroy leafs (probably helping to found new colonies)! This again can accelerate flowering :)
From researchers @ethzurich.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Forgot the reference The Landscape Laboratory Concept in Scandinavia Beyond the mainstream in landscape planning and design: www.skogur.is/static/files...
