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But by 2023, just two years of letting "nature take the lead" one can find 4,000 bees, with the number of different bee species doubling.
"A Scottish field once home to mono-crop barley has become a pollinator’s paradise after intervention from a local trust saw bumblebee numbers increase 100-fold.
Entitled Rewilding Denmarkfield, and run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the project has also seen a sharp increase in the number of species passing through the rolling meadows after they were reclaimed by dozens of wildflower species.
The area north of Perth is about 90 acres in size, and surveys of bumblebees before the project began rarely recorded more than 50. But by 2023, just two years of letting “nature take the lead” that number has topped 4,000, with the number of different bee species doubling.
“This superb variety of plants attracts thousands of pollinators. Many of these plants, such as spear thistle and smooth hawk’s beard, are sometimes branded as ‘weeds’. But they are all native species that are benefiting native wildlife in different ways,” Ecologist Ellie Corsie, who has been managing the project since it began in 2021, said.
“Due to intensive arable farming, with decades of plowing, herbicide, and pesticide use, biodiversity was incredibly low when we started. Wildlife had largely been sanitized from the fields. Rewilding the site has had a remarkable benefit.”
Similar increases have been recorded in the populations of butterflies, with a tripling in the number of these insects seen on average during a ramble through the field.
The numbers of both insects are now so high that Rewilding Denmarkfield offers bee and butterfly safaris to visitors.
Local residents told the Scotsman that on spring and summer days, the field is awash with color, and hums with the sounds of bees and birds. Even as multiple housing developments expand around the Denmarkfield area, the field is a haven for wildlife."
OTTAWA — A small First Nations community in Ontario that was burned to the ground by a raging wildfire on Monday is being deprived of the he
A small First Nations community in Ontario that was burned to the ground by a raging wildfire on Monday is being deprived of the help it needs because the federal government doesn't recognize it as a First Nation, the community's lawyer says.
And its chief says she didn't hear anything from Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty for nearly a week after the fire broke out.
Residents of Collins First Nation, a remote community without road access more than 200 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, were forced to self-evacuate earlier this week in advance of fast-moving fires.
Disgusting and unfortunately absolutely typical behavior from the federal government here, this administration has consistently made it very clear how they feel about Indigenous people, and it's up to us to help each other. Ashinabek Nation has been collecting on behalf of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, please donate if you can
https://an7gc.ca/donate/
Fine-backed Red Paper Wasp (Polistes carolina), male, taken November 8, 2025, in Georgia, US
Yet another handsome wasp posing for me in the sunlight! This guy was pretty alert and thus watched me like a hawk the whole time I was photographing him. Wasps are very interesting in that different individuals possess unique temperaments! Some I find are quite flighty while others are relaxed or confident but alert. Insects are capable of a surprising amount of individuality, and having to get in close makes you realize that. They're all their own special little guys—you just have to put in the effort to get to know them!
here are some useful ways to go about archiving pages you find on the internet for whatever reason you may have
archive.today (also available at archive.ph and a few other archive.something domains that I don't keep track of) keeps snapshots of the pages of any given URL and is also available as a Firefox extension
old reliable archive.org's wayback machine also saves snapshots of the pages of any given URL, and its nifty browser extensions/add-ons (including extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge, as well as iOS and Android apps) not only allow for single page archives, but also for the archiving of outlinks (i.e. pages that a page links to) with one button press
singlefile, available for Chrome, Firefox (including mobile), Safari (including mobile) and Edge, allows you to locally download a website that you have open. this saves it locally and isn't hosted elsewhere like with archive.today or archive.org's wayback machine, so if you want other people to use that
these are just a few of the tools I use. for further reading and more tool recommendations I highly recommend the DataHoarder subreddit's wiki, specifically the web archiving tools section of the software page, along with the github-hosted Awesome Web Archiving List.
Slooow down and meet today’s reptilian feature: the radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata)! It gets its name from the bright-yellow "radiating" (star) pattern on its domed shell. This herbivore munches on a variety of grasses, fruits, and succulents. For relief during extreme heat, it will burrow itself underground to try and keep cool. Once abundant throughout the dry regions of southern Madagascar, this species is now critically endangered due to habitat destruction and exploitation in the illegal pet trade.
Someone tell the kids the hot new trend is speed running the hospital Mitch McConnell is in to get proof of life. If they got that far into the scientology buildings just imagine what they could do
who up feeling very tired and incredibly restless at the same time am i right?? im gonna bite glass nvm post canceled went for a walk now im feeling better and not like im gonna vibrate out my own skin
people aren't even exaggerating indeed is literally like that. walmart attendant $13 an hour, target attendant $13 an hour, AI dick sucker $40 an hour, home depot attendant $13 an hour, guy who designs bullets that can only kill children $160k a year plus benefits, gas station manager $18 an hour
you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.
lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.
a lot of people assume psychosis hallucinations are super intense all-consuming horror movie shit like the memes about the hat man or always horrible debilitating things that make you dangerous to be around
but in my experience 95% of my hallucinations are getting spooked by very clearly hearing someone knocking on my door or calling my name from another room or hearing footsteps walking behind me which are "just" my brain recreating the horror of an abusive childhood
i *have* gotten the "bugs crawling all over me" hallucination once or twice though and yeah that one is exactly as terrible horrible as it sounds AUGH
(not trying to put you on blast specifically, you're just a good example to jump off of)
media and pop culture hypes up psychosis a lot as The Worst That Can Happen out of sanism, so even when you try and filter that cultural bias out you still assume it's based on something
when, no, psychosis is actually very simple: it's just hyperactive pattern matching. it's your brain's signal-to-noise ratio being off balance, it's seeing images in random static. it's not always this special uniquely big thing, it's in fact quite mundane a lot of the time.
no one is immune to psychosis, it's not purely the realm of the insane. anyone is one bad night of sleep or one bad case of food poisoning or one bad fever away from being just like me on my worst days.
and this, indeed, is why solidarity with the insane is so important: you, yes you too, are just one bad day from joining us, and no perceptions of being a "temporarily embarrassed sane person" will save you from the oppression of the psychiatric institution.
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