#nativehawaiianforest

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Walking ethnography comes from studying urban life and culture. I'm taking walking ethnography off the concrete. Literally and theoretically. It's messy. It's emergent. It's multi-sensorial. It's going to where the nonhuman participants are. #nativehawaiianforest #multispeciesethnography #plantspollinatorspeople #researcher #dissertationresearch

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Hawaiian forest birds, specifically honeycreeper nectivores, such as the i'iwi, apapane, amakihi are the most important pollinators for the 'ohi'a lehua. #plantspollinatorspeople #metrosiderospolymorpha #nativehawaiianforest #upcountrybigisland #drepanidinae

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It is said that if you pick a lehua flower it will rain that day. According to Hawaiian legend, this is the tears of the two lovers -- Ohia and Lehua -- being separated. Today, the beloved 'ohi'a trees are being devastated by Rapid 'Ohi'a Death. This disease is caused by a vascular wilt fungus. #plantspollinatorspeople #metrosiderospolymorpha #nativehawaiianforest