Poland’s avid mushroom foragers are getting more than they bargained for.

A weed called garlic mustard is choking out the forest floor and foragers turn the invader into pesto Garlic mustard spreads fast and poisons the soil so native plants cannot grow Nothing in our woo...

The wild forage vegetable that has become a rite of spring. For all who love them a lot, those wild and woodsy fiddleheads are about…

Shaded areas can be difficult areas to landscape, especially when it comes to groundcovers.

Hunting for mobile prey is thought to have played a key role in hominin evolution, by providing high-quality nutrition that supported the development of the exceptionally large human brain. However, human-prey dynamics remain poorly understood because studies have not yet tracked human foragers and their prey simultaneously. Here, we employ high resolution tracking of groups of human foragers (ice-fishers) and their prey (fish shoals) to study human-prey dynamics. Our results show that foragers adaptively combined personal and social information in deciding where to forage and for how long, closely matching the prey distribution. Prey responded dynamically to human exploitation, showing increased attraction to fishing activity, alongside decreased biting probability. Furthermore, we found that foragers adaptively relied on memory, preferentially returning to areas with high prey presence, particularly when their current return rate was low. Our results show how human foragers overcome the challenges of extracting invisible, mobile and reactive prey by tightly tuning patch-selection, patch-leaving and patch-return decisions to the distribution and behaviour of their prey.

Mugolio, or syrup extracted from pine cones, is one of the most delicious chef secrets available to foragers, and costs pennies to make.

Sterling silver turkey tail mushroom stud earrings, sold single or in pairs. Mix sizes up your ear like fungi on a log. A gift for mushroom lovers and foragers.

Hunting for mobile prey is thought to have played a key role in hominin evolution, by providing high-quality nutrition that supported the development of the exceptionally large human brain. However, human-prey dynamics remain poorly understood because studies have not yet tracked human foragers and their prey simultaneously. Here, we employ high resolution tracking of groups of human foragers (ice-fishers) and their prey (fish shoals) to study human-prey dynamics. Our results show that foragers adaptively combined personal and social information in deciding where to forage and for how long, closely matching the prey distribution. Prey responded dynamically to human exploitation, showing increased attraction to fishing activity, alongside decreased biting probability. Furthermore, we found that foragers adaptively relied on memory, preferentially returning to areas with high prey presence, particularly when their current return rate was low. Our results show how human foragers overcome the challenges of extracting invisible, mobile and reactive prey by tightly tuning patch-selection, patch-leaving and patch-return decisions to the distribution and behaviour of their prey.

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A REMOTE town is "under siege" by bloodthirsty brown bears with six people mauled to death in just one month. From creeping through bedroom windows to ambushing forest foragers, predatory beasts are terrorising the town of Podtyosovo in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region. Locals have been left gripped…