Wildlife Daily

Wildlife, nature and environment news from all over the world

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Hello - I’m not updating Wildlife Daily regularly any more. I have a new book out. It’s called Losing Eden and it’s out in the UK with Allen Lane and will be published in other countries soon. It’s about the relationship between the rest of nature and mental health. It’s also about ecological grief, addiction, motherhood and climate. I guess at its heart is the question: as we lose our bond with the natural world, might we also be losing part of ourselves?

Find out more here https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305/305463/losing-eden/9780241441534.html

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Portrait of a beauty by  Yvonne Späne

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These are Malaysian Blue Carpenter Bees!!!!! Aren’t they gorgeous! Such a pretty color! I had no idea there were blue bees!

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Listen To The Quietest Place In The United States

At a time when the human world is drowning out the rest of nature, there are few places where it is possible to hear non-human sounds. Olympic National Park has a protection order on silence. It is the quietest place in North America and you can listen to it here. If you’re feeling stressed out, press play: studies have found nature sounds can decrease activity in the sympathetic nervous system. 

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nsciambi

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Golden Buprestid Jewel Beetle, Buprestis aurulenta.-Spores&More

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Urko Burko

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Oddiseis

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Wildlife Daily Service Update (& Christmas Tree Worms)

Sorry Wildlife Daily has been a bit quiet recently. This happened. Normal service will resume soon! In the meantime, have you ever seen the Christmas Tree worm (Spirobranchus giganteus)? These guys are tube-building polychaete worms found in tropical oceans. Watch a video of a couple spawning here.

(Photo: Creative Commons)

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Longhorn Beetle (Macrochenus isabellinus, Lamiinae, Cerambycidae), female by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu’er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese beetles on my Flickr site HERE…..

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<3 Jay Griffith’s Description Of The Forest

From Wild.

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Hummingbird nest  

by Luxola (Catarina & Balamoc)

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Clearwing or Banyan Tussock Moth, male (Perina nuda, Lymantriinae, Erebidae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu'er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese moths on my Flickr site HERE…..

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Gandalf

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Tawny Rajah Butterfly “Dragonhead” Caterpillars (Charaxes bernardus, Charaxinae, Nymphalidae) The larvae of the butterflies of the Nymphalid subfamily Charaxinae are blessed with impressive head ornamentation appropriately earning them the title of dragonhead caterpillars. by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu’er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese caterpillars on my Flickr site HERE…..

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Strawberry Squid Has One Glowing Eye

Did anyone see that amazing BBC documentary Life That Glows, Sir David Attenborough’s recent exploration into bio-luminescence? It was incredible. Scientists at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) are studying the ecological role of fluorescence in the deep sea and released this video (it’s not new, but it’s still worth watching). They deployed blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on remotely operated submersibles to observe fluorescence in deep-sea animals including the strawberry squid (Histioteuthis).

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Alexander Semenov | Pelagia noctiluca