🪲 Professor 🪰 University of Northern British Columbia 🕷️ Insect ecologist 🐝 conservation, biodiversity, natural history 🐛 Opinions are my own. 🐞 https://linktr.ee/dezene 🦋
Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻
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A few of our UNBC library roof honeybees. 🐝
"They want a big pipeline, right thru Pop's grove." (Corb Lund)
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Kenya's Lake Turkana is the world's largest permanent desert lake. Its waters have long sustained hundreds of thousands. Now the lake is facing multiple threats — and threatening those who rely on it.
The bumblebees I used for the main experiment of my PhD outsmarted me sooo many times. Can confirm, they are very smart.
Megan Buers’s research aims to find out if western screech owls require old trees and mature forests for other reasons, including to find prey. 🦉🪵
"Both discussion documents should be completely withdrawn and nothing proposed should ever be brought forward in legislation." 🌎
(Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada leader)
#LakeCountryBC - District of Lake Country teams with University of Northern BC on wildfire prevention toolkit (Lake Country) www.castanet.net/news/Lake-Co...
Several times a week, while walking to work, I say hi to a pair of ravens who greets me halfway along my route. Sometimes they give me a little wing dip as they fly by. I often wonder if they recognize me. 🐦⬛
Canada's federal governmet wants to be able to overturn Health Canada decisions on pesticide use, saying such power is important for "food and economic security."
I'd argue that food and economic security are best served by not poisoning ecosystems.
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Nature is always more complex and amazing than we may first think. 🔵🐝
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Western screech owls are disappearing from BC. Join researchers on a tricky night mission to find out why.
Kenya's Lake Turkana is the world's largest permanent desert lake. Its waters have long sustained hundreds of thousands. Now the lake is facing multiple threats — and threatening those who rely on it.
Avec le projet de loi C-30, le gouvernement de Mark Carney pourra invalider des décisions basées sur la science de Santé Canada au sujet des pesticides.
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New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger brains do.
Crows, magpies and ravens — all members of the corvid family — are exceptionally intelligent.
An excerpt from 'A Bird's IQ," Louis Lefebvre's new book, tells us why. 📘🐦⬛
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Ottawa pumps the brakes on proposed changes to major project environmental reviews
Nature is always more complex and amazing than we may first think. 🔵🐝
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Crows, magpies and ravens have displayed everything from prey trickery to tool use to potential self-medication. An excerpt from a new book.
OTTAWA — The federal government is pumping the brakes on its proposed changes to how major projects are reviewed, and says it won't table legislation on the changes until the fall.
