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Traffic Noise Makes Caterpillars' Hearts Beat Faster The ongoing racket may interfere with the larvae’s response to stress

This study is from 2018, but I only just learned about it. Nothing surprising here really, but it’s upsetting nonetheless. As someone said, add in lawnmowers, leaf blowers…

#pollinators

Traffic noise also makes my heart rate go up...and I imagine many other species.

Probably the least thing to worry about given the state of the world, but he ruined my neighborhood for me because now I know how many bigots live in it. I can't take a walk without remembering the houses that had, and still have, his sign in the yard and knowing what that says about my neighbors.

Hiker hugging the base of a Coastal Redwood tree.

I hugged a tree today.

Big Lots has sold a warehouse in Tremont Township on Rausch Creek Rd, Pennsylvania to the feds for an ICE detention facility, according to the Republican Herald.

Big Lots has sold a warehouse in Tremont Township on Rausch Creek Rd, Pennsylvania to the feds for an ICE detention facility, according to the Republican Herald. #pennsylvania #schuylkillcounty

Wildlife For Everyone Foundation: Game Commission Seedlings for Schools Program Starts Accepting Orders Feb. 2 [PaEN] tinyurl.com/4akym2sz

A wooden seed display rack and an orange tabby cat

The new seed display rack has been approved by the supervisor of feline QC.

And "christmas trees" are also pagan symbols.

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

I got the same one. It sounds like it's going to be an expensive year.

You're welcome. Happy new year to you too!

Stop being koi with me. You're betta than that.

This is the first time I've heard it called "whiskey grass." It's much less misleading than "Broomsedge."

Happy sowing!

Bahttodea, the grumpy cockroach family

Thanks for the feedback! We're really just a couple plant nerds enabling other plant nerds.

Sunrise over a snow covered meadow.

The light returns. The Winter Solstice brings warmth, light and the promise of spring. #wintersolstice

"Billionaire" by the Flying Vees may be the best new holiday song I've heard this year.

Eels have made a comeback in the Susquehanna, but most die as they migrate south to spawn For an eel in the Susquehanna River, it’s a long swim to the Sargasso Sea out in the Atlantic Ocean, where it was born and where it ultimately should return

Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Eels Made A Comeback In The Susquehanna River, But Most Die As They Migrate South To Spawn www.bayjournal.com/news/fisheri...

We need to "Wave goodbye to the Patriarchy."

It's time to "Wave Goodbye to the Patriarchy."

A photo of the infructescence of Arrowwood viburnum with blue fruits and red peduncles

The red pedicels and peduncles of Arrowwood viburnum contrast nicely with the blue fruits. #viburnumdentatum

Pennsylvania ratepayers will foot the bill from Three Mile Island restart, while Microsoft gets the power | Opinion Restarting a half-century old, disused reactor that has sat idle for eight years is fraught with unknowns and risks.

PennLive Guest Essay: PA Electric Ratepayers Will Foot The Bill From Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart, While Microsoft A.I. Data Centers Get The Power - By Eric Epstein, Three Mile Island Alert www.pennlive.com/opinion/2025...

Gnome. It makes sense considering all the time I spend in the garden.

Help Wanted: Manada Conservancy Executive Director [PaEN] tinyurl.com/4u3pn4zz

One guy, in the all male department I used to work in, told me that I should eat my lunch in a separate area from the guys. I continued to ruin their man lunch vibe for a full 10 years.

In Virginia, the governor and attorney general races are especially important. In Pennsylvania, remember to vote YES on the retention of the Supreme Court justices on the ballot. In California, vote YES on Proposition 50.

Pennsylvania Wilds: PA Wilds Kicks Off Holiday Shopping Season With Online Makers Market Oct. 25 www.pawildscenter.org/blog/2025-ma...

Human exceptionalism is at the root of the ecological crisis, claims evolutionary biologist In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to recognize a less admirable trait of Homo sapiens—self-centeredness.

Human exceptionalism began when we stopped seeing ourselves as part of the food web.

Agriculture gave us control, then the illusion of superiority.

Every species that outruns its limits believes it’s invincible—until it’s not.

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