#ecoloy

[planetaerium]

One of my favourite photos I've taken. Our experimental fire to test grassland resilience.

[astranemus]

[Mechanised] brushcutters are not used instead of scythes because they are better; they are used because their use is conditioned by our attitudes toward technology. Performance is not really the point, and neither is efficiency. Religion is the point: the religion of complexity. The myth of progress manifested in tool form. Plastic is better than wood. Moving parts are better than fixed parts. Noisy things are better than quiet things. Complicated things are better than simple things. New things are better than old things. We all believe this, whether we like it or not. It’s how we were brought up.

Paul Kingsnorth, Dark Ecology in Orion Magazine

[k12academics]

The JAYCEES also have membership categories for Associates, Sustaining, Alumni, Life,(Honorary), JCI Senators, US JAYCEE Ambassadors and theJAYCEE Alumni Education & Library Foundation. They WELCOME VOLUNTEERS!

We culminated this spectacular service learning and civic engagement reputation and posture through organizing  tremendously successful community service programming and innovative project measureswith outstanding public service management and non-profit development  skill enhancement, demonstrated throughout the region and across the state of Rhode Island

[botanytoo]

Launching ‘Botany Live’: a global online event to celebrate ‘Fascination of Plants Day 2017’

Launching ‘Botany Live’: a global online event to celebrate ‘Fascination of Plants Day 2017’

Plants are green or not green, small or tall, beautiful or irritating, rare or everywhere. Plants grow happily without us, but our lives depend on them. On “Fascination of Plants Day” on 18th May 2017, we take a moment to appreciate plants for their diversity, beauty and importance in our lives. As scientists, we share what fascinates us about plants, and what drives our curiosity to delve deeper…

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[earthandscience]

Long-tongued fly sips from afar

The “tongues” of South Africa’s long-tongued flies are certainly long, but they’re not flexible. So a fly has to hover at a distance to sip from a flower’s shallow nectar cup, as seen in the above photograph, which was honored in the 2015 BMC Ecology Image Competition.

The drinking tube on this particular species, Prosoeca ganglbaueri, can grow up to 5 centimeters long. When folded backward during flight, about half of it sticks out behind the fly’s body. Extreme length lets flies either dabble in shallow blossoms or reach into flowers with deeper nectar tubes. As the mouthparts of various long-tongued flies lengthened through the ages, more than 120 flower species, including Zaluzianskya microsiphon, coevolved longer tubes.

Most of these fly-specialist flowers bloom pink or white. But those color preferences aren’t inborn for the flies, says Michael Whitehead, an ecologist (and photographer of both shots) at the Australian National University in Acton. His current research reveals that flies learn color preferences based on what’s rewarding in their local floral buffet. In some places, flies learn only a narrow range of sweet colors. But in landscapes with more options, the flies willingly sip pink, white — and blue.

[jilljj]

The Moon Is Not Made Of Cheese

Alert:

The names have been changed to protect the innocent, I’m taking off some labels again.

“The…

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[k-kiss-me-hard-before-you-go]

i`m just fucking tired.

i don`t know where the fuck my muse for writing the ecology project has came..