"My writing, back when I read little, was bumbling in the dark hoping I’d touch something valuable by accident; a writer who doesn’t read now strikes me as absurd. How does a bee make honey without visiting the flowers?"
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In a new Science study, researchers use data on food webs to show that African elephants have a keystone role in savanna ecosystems through their effects on dung beetles, an insect group with important ecological functions.
📄: https://scim.ag/42Ybev1
#SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/435N4yC
Study: “rewilding” with large mammals increases insect diversity, especially that of Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers) and Hymenoptera (bees, wasps).
Presence of large ungulates increased richness and abundance of some insect taxa. Across taxa, it supported life history traits declining in modern industrialised landscapes. Trophic rewilding thus r...
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"Barn owl color morphs hunt differently in moonlight"
Learn more in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Kim Schalcher, @pbecciu.bsky.social, @owlsforpeace.bsky.social & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
"The rise in the island’s invertebrates – beetles, weevils, bush cockroaches and other bugs – has come after a campaign seven years ago to rid the island of about 300,000 invasive rats and mice."
#Environment #LordHoweIsland #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #Insects #Conservation
Alex Wild
The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.
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Invasive vermin decimated the island’s native flora and fauna – but its unique cockroaches and beetles are thriving once again
