Hey! So i will probably delete this blog in a few months as i no longer post to it. I have a new blog called @actuallyaworm. So if you liked my content or still do, please follow that blog! Will be reposting some old stuff of mine on the new blog too.
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Because this is apparently stick up for wolves day.
Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone has changed the ecosystem *significantly*.
One remarkable thing that was not predicted that demonstrates how interlinked these things are:
Wolf eat elk.
Elk eat fewer willows.
Willows become healthier.
Number of beavers increase.
Number of songbirds increase.
Overall health of streams increases.
Number of fish increases.
Water table stabilizes.
This is called a “trophic cascade” and we normally see them as bad things. But a positive trophic cascade is an amazing thing, and apparently nobody predicted this one.
What they didn’t predict was that wolf predation would keep elk on the move so they wouldn’t overgraze a specific area.
When the elk overgrazed the willows, they removed the best source of food for beavers during the winter.
Once that stopped happening, the beaver population rebounded and it turns out beavers are pretty good for the entire ecosystem.
Hey so a dear friend of mine whoms’t is trans and a sex worker and one of us (IU#690 represent) is in a bit of a situation. Her landlord has been pressuring her lotmates for sex and retaliating by vandalizing their homes. She has a safe place she can get to, but no money to get there b/c of legal fees incurred amongst all the recent #BLM brouhaha (Not to tell tales outside of school, but this person’s a real life hero).
If you’ve got any extra scratch lying around, her cashapp is $mistressapollyon
Please help if you’re able. This is a good friend and jeez y’all I’m really worried about her.
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I swear to fucking God if we can’t even addle enough brass to get one of our own out of danger then I’m gonna just quit and let the world end
Oh no!!! You guys, this is my good pal, please help if you can! 8C
My good pal too :(
Everyone, plz
Friend update: Court date today. Gods know how that’s gonna go
Please, for the love of fuck, keep reblogging this.
Please help this person if you can. They deserve the aid.
Updates: The Friend got set up and the pigs are trying to slap her with a bullshit felony incitement charge, which can get, ah, expensive.
If you’ve got any spare pennies, this is where they’re needed.
It’s a match!
oh haven’t you heard???? things will get better and you will be okay
cat in the woods
vegans make peace with honey
no shut up do it
vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects
Honey is literally murder but go off
Prove it.
They literally puke their guts up to make your honey
I have not seen any evidence tonsugges they are harmed or die in the process of production. They do regurgitate the nectar as part of the process to concentrate it into honey (an interesting process) but they do not suffer any injury during this process. If they did, the cost to produce honey, which is done naturally as a measure to survive over winter and through times of lower availability, would outweigh the benefits. If you kill several bees to produce enough honey to make one more bee, It makes no sense. Any animal that did that would die, even with human intervention.
Do you have any sources which suggest otherwise? I’d be interested to hear of this (relatively publicly available) information was false or misunderstood.
Bee farmers use whats called a honey maker. It’s a crude devices. It similar to a meat grinder. They force the bees in and grind them up. What comes out is a paste. That paste is later filtered into what we know as honey
This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read
@zoologicallyobsessed please show us pics of your bee grinder
they might be falsely thinking about a honey extractor machine. but all these do is you place the beehive frames inside and a motor rotates it at a speed that removes the honey, which is then tapped through a tap at the bottom.
…do they think they put bees in that and spin them around until they vomit…?
bee carnival
bad and naughty bees get put into the b e e c e n t r i f u g e to extract their honey
Vegans coming after beekeepers is one of my major teeth grinding annoyances. For many reasons, because there’s so many lies. And to go one step further because it’s such a waste. You see, the strongest vegan argument is that they don’t want to exploit animals or take from them without their consent.
… but… Bees consent. NO. I’M NOT KIDDING.
How? Bee hives aren’t kept on leashes. They’re outside, the bees can travel miles every day. They follow their queen. Who is also outside, not on a leash, and can travel miles every day. If she doesn’t like the hive for any reason - for example: it got too hot, too cold, too messy, too filled with sugary stuff and they need more space… then the queen leaves. And with her the hive.
The queen stays in the hive because the hive is the best place to live. Period. Done. End of. If the hive is staying with the beekeeper it’s because the keeper is doing their job correctly and keeping them happy because the bees can, and do, leave bad beekeepers.
Of all the animals we have domesticated as livestock, bees are the ones you can most easily argue are consenting participants in their keeping.
Can anybody help me? My friend has MRSA, and is going to die without his antibiotics.
I promise, I'm not lying.
He just needs $100.
Any donation helps ♡
His PayPal is [email protected]
Please, please help, if you can https://t.co/AUKCulvb5i
He's doing better, but he needs one more round! Here are some progress shots!
Any donation helps !
(Image description: A photo of two clasped hands wearing wedding rings over a white dress. There is pink text over top saying “There is no marriage equality until disabled people can marry without losing their benefits”. End description)
Occasionally, fossils become opal instead of stone. They are called… opalized fossils.
reminder that mermaids cooperate with cops, are run primarily by cis people, only support kids, and are just generally Kinda Not Great. if you wanna donate to some uk trans orgs:
