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This is how I imagine my ancestors feel when they look down on me.

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Reblog the strawberry kitty for good luck!🍓🐱

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Howl’s moving castle (2004), dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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how do u actually save bees?

viva-la-bees

Plant bee-friendly flowers

Support your local beekeepers

Set up bee hotels for solitary bees

If you see a lethargic bee feed it sugar water

Spread awareness of the importance off bees

l0veyu

+Don’t eat honey✌🏻

ogaycanyousee

NO.

That will not help save the bees at all. They need the excess honey removed from their hives. That’s the beekeepers entire livelihood.

libertarirynn-deactivated202006

Seriously refusing to eat honey is one of those well-meaning but ultimately terrible ideas. The bees make way too much honey and need it out in order to thrive (not being funny but that was literally a side effect in Bee Movie). Plus that’s the only way for the beekeepers to make the money they need to keep the bees healthy. Do not stop eating honey because somebody on Tumblr told you too.

jumpingjacktrash

excess honey, if not removed, can ferment and poison the bees. even if it doesn’t, it attracts animals and other insects which can hurt the bees or even damage the hive. why vegans think letting bees stew in their own drippings is ‘cruelty-free’ is beyond me. >:[

the fact that we find honey yummy and nutritious is part of why we keep bees, true, but the truth is we mostly keep them to pollinate our crops. the vegetable crops you seem to imagine would still magically sustain us if we stopped cultivating bees.

and when you get right down to it… domestic bees aren’t confined in any way. if they wanted to fly away, they could, and would. they come back to the wood frame hives humans build because those are nice places to nest.

so pretending domestic bees have it worse than wild bees is just the most childish kind of anthropomorphizing.

foxthebeekeeper

If anything, man-made hives are MORE suitable for bees to live in because we have mathematically determined their optimal living space and conditions, and can control them better in our hives. We also can treat them for diseases and pests much easier than we could if they were living in, say, a tree.

Tl;dr for all of this: eating honey saves the bees from themselves, and keeping them in man-made hives is good for them.

thebeeblogger

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plantanarchy

and anyway, bees that produce honey are not the only important bees

but a lot of things beekeepers do for the good of their personal hives tends to be good for wild bees as well, such as planting native wildflower mixes, avoiding neonics, maintaining bee-friendly blooming perennials and shrubs, etc

you don’t even have to know much about specific plants to plant things for bees just know that bees benefit from:

yellow, orange, and blue (purple) flowers

simple blooms rather than fancy double or highly ruffled hybrids (such as many roses, marigolds, hollyhocks, peonies, etc) they’re beautiful but it’s harder for bees to get at pollen

very early spring blooming (like phlox subulata in my zone) and late fall blooming (like upright sedum in my zone) plants so there’s always a source of pollen in the most pollen-scarce times

continent-of-wild-endeavor

They’re TOTALLY not the only important bees. Apis mellifera has some troubles, but they’re probably actually least concern among bees. Struggling in various ways, but not gonna go extinct, unlike many native & solitary bee species.

People ask me this a lot at my beekeeping demos,but I don’t think they like my usual answers of Leave the Dandelions Alone. Let your yard be blooming weeds - that’s the land you’ve got, that’s how to put it to work for pollinators. But also yeah, support your local beekeeper, and generally buy things made with responsible use of pesticides.

(Also complicated answer about selective breeding of honeybees and how industrial pollination services create a population of bees adapted to that only, rather than general Survival…only if they seem to still be listening.)

stephanieclarex-deactivated2018

As a vegan, it is not just about abstaining from animal products, it’s about doing what is best for the animals and the environment. Sometimes you have to go against the rules a little to do what is best, and eating honey is one of those things.

Make sure that the honey is coming from beekeepers who are kind to their bees, but other than that, just eat the damn honey.

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🌊 Types of Mermaids 🌊

please be respectful of cultural boundaries when working with mermaids from various cultures and traditions, and be mindful not to intrude.

🌊 Rusalkas - slavic in origin, disturbed spirits of the “unclean dead”, ghosts of women who died violent deaths, with a penchant for drowning young men. they live only in rivers and lakes, and are known to have green hair like aquatic plants, only appearing in the night.

🌊 Melusina - a mermaid that walks among humans, but returns to their two-tailed form during baths and when they bathe their children. often a water spirit of a nearby lake or river. french origin.

🌊 Siren - greek mythology. servants and companions of persephone, whom searched for her when she was abducted. they are known to sometimes have the body of a bird, and for their song, which lured sailors to their doom. cannibalism implied folklore. have the power of prophecy.

🌊 Merrow - irish mermaid. known to have green hair and webbed fingers. particular noted love of music and their red cap, which when stolen, they will live with the thief until they find it, and then return to the water, leaving even a whole family behind.

🌊 Ben-varrey - from the isle of man, known to bless those that are kind to them with prosperity, gifts, and even the location of treasure.

🌊 Aicaya - Caribbean mermaid, humans who become mermaids when they are shunned from their community and go to live in the sea.

🌊 Amabie - japanese merpeople, with birdlike torsos and three legs and scales. they are gifted with prophecy, usually foretelling abundant harvests or epidemics

🌊 Ningyo - “human faced fish” known to have golden scales, that brings bad weather and misfortune when caught, but when their flesh is eaten the consumer is granted youth and beauty, even agelessness.

🌊 Finman / Finwife - magical shapeshifters that disguise themselves as sea creatures or plants to lure humans, unlike most mermaids they kidnap people from the shores to be their spouses or servants. they have a greed for jewelry and coins, particularly silver, and prefer humans over other finfolk.

🌊 Sirena Chilota - considered the more friendly mermaids, caring for all fish life and rescuing drowned sailors to restore life to them. known for their human-like beauty and youth, according to legend they are the child of a human and a “king of seas”, tears are a powerful substance. from chilote mythology.

🌊 Cecealia - sometimes known as “sea witches”, they are half human and half octopus. origins in native american and japanese mythology.

🌊 Sirena / Siyokoy - the philippine version of mermaid and merman respectively. also called “magindara”, they are known to protect the waters from raiders, and protect the boy moon from sea monsters. Siyokoys can sometimes have legs however, covered with scales and webbed feet

🌊 Sea Mither - scottish/orcadian mythology, a spirit that personifies the sea during spring and summer, battles along scottish isles using storms to bring the summer about. a mother figure to all aquatic life.

🌊 Ceasg - a fresh-water mermaid, specifically half-salmon, said to grant three wishes if captured. sometimes called maighdean na tuinne (maid of the wave) or maighdean mhara (maid of the sea). scottish.

🌊 Selkie - though somewhat different from the typical mermaid, as they are not cold-blooded, have the body of a seal in the water and are human on land. in legends their skins are often stolen and they are kept by fishermen as spouses, or become lovers to fishermen’s wives who shed tears into the sea.

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Why do Bigfoot hunters try to lure him with a mating call? Do they have a game plan for if a squatch comes barreling toward them out of the woods full tilt with a raging boner?