Post AqpFXpu2GCi5ZfFl1E by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #Aqp8MENsiKVgLcjToO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-05T23:35:53Z
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Because people eat honey and like flowers they pay way more attention to the relationships between bees and flowers than they do to the many relationships between other arthropods and various plants. I've been reading a really good book about how plants sense and respond to their environment. Did you know that some plants respond to the *sound* of water? No, not the moisture levels... just the noise that it makes. The book is called "The Light Eaters" By Zoe Schlanger.
(DIR) Post #Aqp8SNnwbOk1ImrApc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-05T23:37:00Z
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I find a lot of the frustration she describes in gettin people to study and test the more active aspects of plants very similar to what goes on with insects. Girl, you want people to take plants seriously? They don't even take the ants seriously half of the time.
(DIR) Post #Aqp8dg1dCLcKzwdzLk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-05T23:39:03Z
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Do get me wrong I love bees. Especially the wild solitary random ones that do the most diabolical things and are only upstaged by the deeply strange wingless wasps who parasitize them. There all kinds of shocking things going on in those little holes.
(DIR) Post #AqpENaXqPEcF5nQI5Y by ptoothfish@mastodon.nz
2025-02-06T00:43:18Z
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@futurebird we have mason bees who build these clay tubes full of paralysed orbweb spiders in the pleats of curtains we only close once or twice a year... and even when i get my semi-annual face full of bee-spit clay dust and limp spiders when i forget to check first before pulling a curtain, i still like the bees 😅
(DIR) Post #AqpFXpu2GCi5ZfFl1E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-06T00:56:26Z
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@ptoothfish I don't think you have these kinds of velvet wasps in NZ... but you can still imagine what it'd be like if you came home from work after a long day of paralyzing spiders to pack zombified into your babies lunch boxes... only to find the door to the lovely little house you built from scratch blocked by as FACE. This face. (see photo) and it's some guy who won't leave your house and he's using his head to block the entrance. You try to pull him out, but he's locked in with spines!
(DIR) Post #AqpFfyYXyGaEjG5E8W by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-06T00:57:54Z
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@ptoothfish And do you know what he's up to?He's guarding your house hoping it will get him LAID. I kid you not. He's got a girlfriend with a similar FACE and she is coming over and if she is impressed with YOUR house they will lay eggs on your eggs and it's all over for your little babies. You get so disgusted you buzz off to start over.
(DIR) Post #AqpFwjEGD6iC7DaCGW by mhstoixeiwmenopip@kafeneio.social
2025-02-06T01:00:51Z
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@futurebird even MORE underrated??? Earthworms. My beloveds.They're just out here mixing up the soil JUST. FOR. YOU.Least we could do is show some appreciation around here :ablobangryshake: /hj
(DIR) Post #AqpH12P2xp1Yh9FMKO by Subterfuge@dice.camp
2025-02-06T01:12:52Z
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@futurebird the importance of the european honeybee is its pollinizer role in commercial agriculture
(DIR) Post #AqpHcuOtAK2QsbEO48 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-06T01:19:41Z
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@stuartyeates @mhstoixeiwmenopip Yes flatworms and my little friends Storeria dekayi.
(DIR) Post #AqpTF7a9hg58GIvOW8 by j3b@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-02-06T03:29:16Z
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@futurebird thank you! It seems like a popular book. I'm number 29 in line for it now at my local library.
(DIR) Post #AqqAjy8TAhDjyCvkjg by econads@mendeddrum.org
2025-02-06T11:37:17Z
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@futurebird More of that stuff also in the hidden life of trees by Peter Wohlleben, although I found out later he's disliked in forestry circles.
(DIR) Post #Aqqgu5dTL2m0ezIlOq by cratedigger@mastodon.xyz
2025-02-06T17:37:39Z
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@futurebird I'm going to check that book out. If you haven't read it yet, you might enjoy "Wildscape" by Nancy Lawson. Written for a general audience, she divides it up into five chapters - one for each of the senses. I'm only through the first chapter (The Scentscape) and am fascinated.