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allthe.buzz
Bees can bee playful! Bees can learn from one another. Bees sleep and likely dream... of flowers? Bees are thinking, feeling creatures, akin to us. 💛🐝✨ Occasionally I'll touch on old-growth forests, logging, and wildfire. Close to my heart too 💔🔥
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Nothing unusual this am in sunny Bay Area, just 4 military helicopters flying low enough to shake all the things below. Hmm...

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Male orchid bee (Euglossa sp.) collecting fragrant compounds from a moss patch in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This is one of my favorite subjects to photograph, and I keep going back to it even though I probably have hundreds of photos by now. I mean, look how awesome these bees are!

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

Still find it astounding that orchard mason bees foraging on various heat-stressed flowers (100°F for just 4 hours in early bloom) laid about *70% fewer eggs, and their progeny were far less likely to survive* (this's the paper, despite photo of critters!) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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People point to 'too much fuel' in relation to SoCal fires, but what's rarely mentioned is that the vegetation is now often dominated by highly flammable invasive weeds -- whose increasing abundance on the landscape is due to human disturbance. It's not so much the amount of fuels, but what type.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

"Good news" -- Brazilian Amazon is 'only' losing 6,000+ sq km of forest annually, while also experiencing the worst regional drought and wildfire losses in recorded history. Plus higher losses in Peru, Colombia, etc. Also increasing evidence of ecosystem collapse, but hey, let's call it 'good news'.

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“Worlds are always ending; empires are always falling; the climate has changed before; change is the only constant. These are the comforting stories we tell to get ourselves through the night. These are the words that allow us to continue to avoid looking at the enormity of what we have done and…”

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Let’s not mince words; we are returning the planet to the climate volatility characteristic of the Pleistocene Epoch when agriculture was impossible, but we are doing it with fire rather than ice. Civilization is Proving to be a Very Fragile Thing collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2025/01/21/m...

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If the disaster doesn’t get you, disaster capitalism will finish the job.

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

“However we got here, we have managed to create a culture in which we have alienated ourselves from the rest of life. We struggle to persuade ourselves that this alienation is the same thing as freedom. Increasingly, though, for those penned into cities with no view of the stars and…

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Bumble bee chilling in a flower for the night… a natural shelter, opening in sun, closing against cold and rain. There’s some spark of truth hidden here. Another, wilder way to live. #MomentOfBuzz

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"The ecosystems on the American Southwest’s federal lands are hemorrhaging carbon dioxide into the atmosphere faster than any other region in the U.S., according to a recent study from the U.S. Geological Survey...'It’s primarily a story of fire.'” www.latimes.com/environment/...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

It’s almost as if we believe magic words will solve the biodiversity crisis Sustainability, then ecosystem services, then natural capital, then nature’s contributions to people, then sustainability again, now bioeconomy and transformative change

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

IYKYK

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Sam Droege says it best: “I am in awe of wings. Light, the membranes enhanced by a web of structural but flexible tubing, strong but also bendy, placed just so to give strength where needed but not weigh down.” #MomentOfBuzz 🐝

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1/2 🧵 There *is* a pandemic for animals. And no one cares if it mutates to spread more efficiently among humans. If they did, they’d act. Instead, humans risk exposure through farming, raw meat, walking their dog, or sitting in a vet's office—with zero warnings.

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

As dominoes, wildfires catalyze a toxic chain of events in their wake. Consider everything in and around and composing a typical home—*all the things*—imagine mixing it all together, superheating it, sending it first into the air, then falling to the soil, then spreading beyond into rivers and seas.

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Last year, when 200 monarchs died, testing confirmed pesticide poisoning by multiple chemicals. The pesticides were likely used by a local resident or business. We all need to work together to reduce the use of harmful pesticides and protect monarchs and other wildlife. xerces.org/blog/how-urb...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

As climate changes, some bumble bees now produce further generations in winter (rather than typical hibernation of young queens). With fewer winter blooms, we may see unusual flower prefs & less effective pollination as potential consequences (flower constancy = tendency to visit same plant species)

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“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein When we speak of other-than-human beings, our language oft leads us to talk in most distanced & unfeeling terms of our natural kin. Collectively we’re depriving many beings of their rights even to exist, let alone flourish.

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While my heart goes out to all impacted by climate chaos fueled fire, I’m more concerned about wildlife/ecosystems who, unlike celebrities (many with several homes), have no other home to go to. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/03/cali...

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