BWarn 🍁

A thick large full-color book cover showing pictures of beautiful wasps and titled “Wasps: A Guide For Eastern North America—Their Biology, Diversity, and Rose as Beneficial Insects and Pollinators of Native Plants’. My favorite part of her books is correlating certain species’ preferences to particular native plant which helps a ton with quick IDs of new frens.

Hellfire hot again, crispy plants, pretend rain on futurecast radar but has been eluding me for weeks. Our power went out last night twice, luckily only for a few hours total, but definitely staying in the AC reading another great book by stellar Heather Holm. #gardening #inverts #wasps #BookSky 🌱

As the Wild Bergamot’s season comes to an end, Common Boneset takes its place as the crowd favorite in my garden

#nativeplants #pollinators #nativeplantgardening

Some geraniums (Pelargonium zonale) are a true trap plant for Japanese beetles. The beetles love them, but they are also paralyzed by them for up to a day. Put a few around the yard and just shake out the beetles into a soapy bucket. They die in their sleep.

Added this to my must read list. Tyvm.

Photo of leaves of a vine and a single flower. The flower has a corona of long, filamentous segments that are reddish. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.

I’ve spent the week talking about Passiflora & haven’t mentioned the corona! It’s the whorl of spikey-looking bits in this flower of P. jussieui. Like the coronas of daffodils (Narcissus spp), it is an outgrowth of the perianth & presumably attractive to pollinators. #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

just arrived in my mailbox...really well done.

www.emmarosefryer.com/labmanual

The lab sheets are fantastic!

Colonizing With Carbon Credits How tree growth links carbon emissions to imperial capitalism

Carbon credits perpetuate colonial land relations. They often represent pollution created by Global North nations deposited on to land in the Globak South, and Indigenous communities rarely have a say in governance nor benefit from them financially.

🌎 🧪 #geosky

www.briefecology.com/p/colonizing...

I agree. Foraging sounds wonderful, until you think of the world at large actively in wild areas. Many native delicious plants have been eaten to extinction, and we humans rarely leave enough for regeneration let alone feeding the other creatures we share our planet with.

If you haven't been to this fabulous place, put it on your bucket list. Cape Breton is absolutely breathtaking. Lakes, rivers, creeks, waterfalls, mountains, beaches, and a wide ocean. The people are some of the friendliest on earth.

Polar stereographic map of sea surface temperature trends for Augusts from 1979 to 2024. Red shading is shown for warming trends, and blue shading is shown for cooling trends. All areas of the ocean are observing warming.

Quick look at August sea surface temperature trends across the #Arctic, which are warming nearly everywhere that sea ice is not found. We'll have an update on this in our next Arctic Report Card, which will be released in December 2025.

Last year's summary: arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...

U.S. increases duties on Canadian softwood lumber, bringing total to more than 35% | CBC News The United States has increased countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber, bringing the total to 35.19 per cent.

Don't let trump crush us. Buy Canadian everything, insist on it.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Backlit and wearing polka-dots, a male Northern Flicker surprises me by perching right in front of my lens under the canopy. A moment of Zen for sure.

💙 Good morning Bluesky! 💙

🕉️ Keep it shady, and may your #FlickerFriday be filled with the wonders of Nature! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Colaptes auratus, aka the red-shafted Northern Flicker

#FeatheredFriday
#FridayVibes 🌿
#Woodpeckers
#BirdPhotography
#Birding
#Birds 🪶

Not enough attention to this little guy, Fowlers Toad (Anaxyrus fowleri). Just cruising on the sun scorched compacted garbage wasteland living its best life. Native to Ontario, will probably survive the apocalypse.

N: Tuktoyaktuk NYT
E: Cabot's Landing NS
W: Port Hardy, BC
S:Point Peele ON

Even more fascinating after reading ‘Birds and flowers’ book by @jeffollerton.bsky.social
#BirdPollination #Generalists #Ecology

Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly Expert says non-profit partners provide a ‘fairy dust’ of legitimacy to beef industry.

The beef lobby playbook: confuse people about the science when it comes to cattle & climate, so you can have your beef & eat it too. Eco groups providing cover for the industry are “giving it a nice little fairy dusting of respectability” says @profsecchi.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/08/06/r...

Photo of two leaves and two small glass vials. In each vile, a bit of leaf tissue is at the bottom of the vial and a strip of paper is suspended from the lid. In the left vial, the paper is bright blue. It’s white in the right vial. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.

Passiflora has cyanogenic glycosides that release cyanide when exposed to an enzyme. Feigl-Anger test strips turn blue with HCN. Passiflora suberosa (R) leaves have the glycoside + enzyme. Passiflora incarnata (L) leaves have the glycoside but lack the enzyme. #HCN #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Five adorable Victorian fashion accessories to go with your child’s measles The 19th century is back in vogue with a recent uptick in measles, mumps and irrational distrust of life saving medical procedures. But it’s not just healthcare that is going back 180 years, it’s also...

Five adorable Victorian fashion accessories to go with your child’s measles

I pin feeds I like and don't hit the like button. It is probably not very helpful for others looking for the good stuff, so I went and liked them all. Thanks for bringing it to light.

Motherfucking wind farms… #cdnpoli

Nova Scotia to celebrate Acadian Heritage Month in August August will mark Nova Scotia’s second annual Acadian Heritage Month.

Nova Scotia to celebrate Acadian Heritage Month in August #NovaScotia #AcadianHeritageMonth

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Oil and gas subsidies in Canada, explained | The Narwhal Oil and gas subsidies in Canada amount to billions each year, including loans, tax breaks and other incentives

Billions of dollars are given to oil and gas corporations each year in the form of subsidies from governments in Canada.

Exactly how many billions is a matter of debate. And what even is a subsidy anyway? @drewanderson.bsky.social explains:

thenarwhal.ca/oil-and-gas-...

A pale purplish globe atop a stem with green leaves

Bergamot’s pink-purple blossoms are beautiful, but on my “garden beauty goes beyond blossoms” soapbox here is my case for the post-bloom seedheads of wild bergamot, monarda fistulosa. They are visually striking! #maryland #nativeplants

Best. Plant. Ever.

Why does Ford hate nature so much? Or is it just that he can keep his slice of nature and destroy it for the rest of us. First he took Ontario place, now he is going for our public waterways in the rest of the province.

It isn't just minerals, fossil fuels and metals that matter. We cannot replace forests or the biodiversity of flora and fauna that inhabit them. They are an essential part of how our natural world functions. Without them we have no future.

A record year for Great Lakes piping plovers | The Narwhal A decades-long concerted effort by universities, zoos and government agencies is helping Great Lakes piping plovers recover

Endangered piping plovers on the Great Lakes face threats from predators, loss of habitat, people and dogs. But there’s good news this year, thanks to a decades-long restoration effort. thenarwhal.ca/great-lakes-...

Photo of detached part of the infructescence. The fruits are orange capsules that open to reveal Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.

Another way of enticing an animal to eat a seed is to give the seed an aril, a fleshy outgrowth of the ovule stalk or its attachment to the ovule. Harpullia solomonensis has fruits that open to reveal shiny black seeds almost completely covered with red arils. #Sapindaceae #dispersal #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

For context: Harper cut the department's budget by 60% mere months into taking power and the women's movement in Canada is still trying to recover.

In fact, I worked for a national organization that was completely defunded by that cut and we had to close.

And that was only a 60% cut!