pollination is as beautiful as these pretty bees hehe
i hope everyone had a fun halloween!!!
i hope everyone had a fun halloween!!!
November 1, 2026 at 7:57 PM
pollination is as beautiful as these pretty bees hehe
i hope everyone had a fun halloween!!!
i hope everyone had a fun halloween!!!
Red Fire Orchids (Pyrorchis nigricans), loved working on this watercolour commission. These orchids usually only flower after a fire & they don't need pollination from other flowers to reproduce, amazing! #orchid #botanicalart #watercolour #botanicalpainting
November 1, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Red Fire Orchids (Pyrorchis nigricans), loved working on this watercolour commission. These orchids usually only flower after a fire & they don't need pollination from other flowers to reproduce, amazing! #orchid #botanicalart #watercolour #botanicalpainting
Some figs have evolved to rely on humans and done away with the fig wasp pollination altogether!
October 28, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Some figs have evolved to rely on humans and done away with the fig wasp pollination altogether!
“If the bees disappear off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
#SaveTheBees #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #Climate #nature #GreenNewDeal #biodiversity
#SaveTheBees #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #Climate #nature #GreenNewDeal #biodiversity
October 31, 2026 at 6:07 PM
“If the bees disappear off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
#SaveTheBees #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #Climate #nature #GreenNewDeal #biodiversity
#SaveTheBees #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #Climate #nature #GreenNewDeal #biodiversity
Ours blooms several times a year but the bloom does only last 10hrs.
Amazing to smell too. These are clones, I need an outside one for pollination and fruit.
Amazing to smell too. These are clones, I need an outside one for pollination and fruit.
November 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Ours blooms several times a year but the bloom does only last 10hrs.
Amazing to smell too. These are clones, I need an outside one for pollination and fruit.
Amazing to smell too. These are clones, I need an outside one for pollination and fruit.
I, a biologist, do my best to understand the connections among inflation, employment, interest rates, debt, and bond markets.
In my experience economists do not do the same with CO2 levels, ocean acidification, falling fish stocks, temperature, pollination failures, and resulting social conflict.
In my experience economists do not do the same with CO2 levels, ocean acidification, falling fish stocks, temperature, pollination failures, and resulting social conflict.
Scolding climate advocates for ignoring economic analysis is counterproductive: our analyses don’t capture the costs and benefits they care about. We should push for more cost-benefit thinking from a place of humility about what we can and can’t deliver: www.theargumentmag.com/p/what-econo...
What economists just don’t get about climate change
The case against cheap climate policy
www.theargumentmag.com
November 1, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I, a biologist, do my best to understand the connections among inflation, employment, interest rates, debt, and bond markets.
In my experience economists do not do the same with CO2 levels, ocean acidification, falling fish stocks, temperature, pollination failures, and resulting social conflict.
In my experience economists do not do the same with CO2 levels, ocean acidification, falling fish stocks, temperature, pollination failures, and resulting social conflict.
Cross-pollination of religions
October 31, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Cross-pollination of religions
Cross universe pollination never looked so cute and gay af
Had so much fun with these two! @3nemafr0st.bsky.social and @himbopotamus.bsky.social
November 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Cross universe pollination never looked so cute and gay af
Thanks @aspbofficial.bsky.social for highlighting our recent article doi.org/10.1111/plb.... on pollination in orchids 🔬🌱
#PlantScience
@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
#PlantScience
@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
October 30, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Thanks @aspbofficial.bsky.social for highlighting our recent article doi.org/10.1111/plb.... on pollination in orchids 🔬🌱
#PlantScience
@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
#PlantScience
@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
fig wasps love their suicide pollination
honor their last wishes, eat the fruit of sin
honor their last wishes, eat the fruit of sin
October 28, 2026 at 10:00 PM
fig wasps love their suicide pollination
honor their last wishes, eat the fruit of sin
honor their last wishes, eat the fruit of sin
Entomologist barging in: good news! Nearly all figs eaten by humans today* are from are parthenocarpic strains; that includes the ones that go into Fig Newtons. They do not need the wasps to make fruit.
(*Unless you are eating a Smyrna fig, which still needs pollination by wasps.)
(*Unless you are eating a Smyrna fig, which still needs pollination by wasps.)
October 28, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Entomologist barging in: good news! Nearly all figs eaten by humans today* are from are parthenocarpic strains; that includes the ones that go into Fig Newtons. They do not need the wasps to make fruit.
(*Unless you are eating a Smyrna fig, which still needs pollination by wasps.)
(*Unless you are eating a Smyrna fig, which still needs pollination by wasps.)
Insecticides alter wild and managed pollination dynamics on oil crop yield
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Insecticides alter wild and managed pollination dynamics on oil crop yield
Our results show that combining honey bee hives with insecticide use does not automatically enhance crop yield. Pollination outcomes are strongly scale- and context-dependent, with wild pollinators p...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 29, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Insecticides alter wild and managed pollination dynamics on oil crop yield
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We need bees for honey and to help with pollination of flowers so we MUST protect the bees 💯
October 28, 2026 at 10:32 PM
We need bees for honey and to help with pollination of flowers so we MUST protect the bees 💯
Well, you see...
The thing with boots. They're uh... a lot like tulips. They need pollination.
The thing with boots. They're uh... a lot like tulips. They need pollination.
October 31, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Well, you see...
The thing with boots. They're uh... a lot like tulips. They need pollination.
The thing with boots. They're uh... a lot like tulips. They need pollination.
Like a flower blossoming when the conditions are ideal for pollination~
October 31, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Like a flower blossoming when the conditions are ideal for pollination~
Adults are losing functional distinctiveness everywhere. Mountain communities are losing their ecological uniqueness — with potential consequences for ecosystem stability and pollination networks.
October 30, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Adults are losing functional distinctiveness everywhere. Mountain communities are losing their ecological uniqueness — with potential consequences for ecosystem stability and pollination networks.
We do have a wildflower season, in Perth that is best June-October. Bird pollination is quite a feature of the flora, but there are other intricate pollination partnerships going on.
October 29, 2026 at 12:46 AM
We do have a wildflower season, in Perth that is best June-October. Bird pollination is quite a feature of the flora, but there are other intricate pollination partnerships going on.
Examples of negative externalities:
- carbon pollution
- antibiotic resistance
- congestion
Examples of positive externalities:
- herd immunity from vaccination
- pollination from beekeeping
- the worst video game of all time giving us k/da
- carbon pollution
- antibiotic resistance
- congestion
Examples of positive externalities:
- herd immunity from vaccination
- pollination from beekeeping
- the worst video game of all time giving us k/da
October 28, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Examples of negative externalities:
- carbon pollution
- antibiotic resistance
- congestion
Examples of positive externalities:
- herd immunity from vaccination
- pollination from beekeeping
- the worst video game of all time giving us k/da
- carbon pollution
- antibiotic resistance
- congestion
Examples of positive externalities:
- herd immunity from vaccination
- pollination from beekeeping
- the worst video game of all time giving us k/da
The relationship between bats & plants goes beyond pollination. In the Tropics, bats are critical seed dispersers. If you like lychees, longans & mangoes, thank the bats, which are the dispersers of the wild ancestors of these crops. 📷: Litchi chinensis #batweek #Sapindaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱🦇
October 29, 2026 at 11:42 AM
The relationship between bats & plants goes beyond pollination. In the Tropics, bats are critical seed dispersers. If you like lychees, longans & mangoes, thank the bats, which are the dispersers of the wild ancestors of these crops. 📷: Litchi chinensis #batweek #Sapindaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱🦇
any sort of pollination mimicry... Wild gingers, for example.
October 29, 2026 at 6:23 PM
any sort of pollination mimicry... Wild gingers, for example.
But interestingly not that different from modern fundamentalist strains in *other* religions
The common structural push of capitalist modernity + organizational/discursive cross-pollination has produced strikingly similar movements in most other major religions, though their strength seems to vary
The common structural push of capitalist modernity + organizational/discursive cross-pollination has produced strikingly similar movements in most other major religions, though their strength seems to vary
One thing I’ve really learned from the various lectures about early christianity from Bart Ehrman via the Great Courses is how truly an outlier modern political evangelical Christianity is compared with other strands of Christian theology and thought
it's very important to remember that the fundamentalist expression of evangelicalism, while politically ascendent, is still the marginal group by comparison to the seeker-sensitive moderate evangelical majority
they still vote red, largely, but their expression is very diff. from fundamentalism!
they still vote red, largely, but their expression is very diff. from fundamentalism!
October 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
But interestingly not that different from modern fundamentalist strains in *other* religions
The common structural push of capitalist modernity + organizational/discursive cross-pollination has produced strikingly similar movements in most other major religions, though their strength seems to vary
The common structural push of capitalist modernity + organizational/discursive cross-pollination has produced strikingly similar movements in most other major religions, though their strength seems to vary
Have a Hoverfly for
#FlyDay. I just went up the garden to replenish the bird feeders and spotted this little yellow stripey chap on the red Persicaria aka "Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate".
#Pollination
#Bloomscrolling #Macro #EastCoastKin
#iPhonePhotography
#FlyDay. I just went up the garden to replenish the bird feeders and spotted this little yellow stripey chap on the red Persicaria aka "Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate".
#Pollination
#Bloomscrolling #Macro #EastCoastKin
#iPhonePhotography
October 30, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Have a Hoverfly for
#FlyDay. I just went up the garden to replenish the bird feeders and spotted this little yellow stripey chap on the red Persicaria aka "Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate".
#Pollination
#Bloomscrolling #Macro #EastCoastKin
#iPhonePhotography
#FlyDay. I just went up the garden to replenish the bird feeders and spotted this little yellow stripey chap on the red Persicaria aka "Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate".
#Pollination
#Bloomscrolling #Macro #EastCoastKin
#iPhonePhotography
There have been some sparkling days this week and the #WeeBee workers have been making the most of the Indian Summer conditions.
#FlyDay #Pollination
#Bloomscrolling #Macro
#Bee #EastCoastKin
#iPhonePhotography
#FlyDay #Pollination
#Bloomscrolling #Macro
#Bee #EastCoastKin
#iPhonePhotography
October 30, 2026 at 6:34 AM
There have been some sparkling days this week and the #WeeBee workers have been making the most of the Indian Summer conditions.
#FlyDay #Pollination
#Bloomscrolling #Macro
#Bee #EastCoastKin
#iPhonePhotography
#FlyDay #Pollination
#Bloomscrolling #Macro
#Bee #EastCoastKin
#iPhonePhotography
There is a lot of weird cross pollination in WA 3 with Texan politics/big money (a la Maddox)
That Braun and RWC share a Treasurer, who may have hired a text client to do shady anti-trans scares should be more surprising than it is. That crew has no problem repeatedly demonizing children.
That Braun and RWC share a Treasurer, who may have hired a text client to do shady anti-trans scares should be more surprising than it is. That crew has no problem repeatedly demonizing children.
October 30, 2026 at 12:37 AM
There is a lot of weird cross pollination in WA 3 with Texan politics/big money (a la Maddox)
That Braun and RWC share a Treasurer, who may have hired a text client to do shady anti-trans scares should be more surprising than it is. That crew has no problem repeatedly demonizing children.
That Braun and RWC share a Treasurer, who may have hired a text client to do shady anti-trans scares should be more surprising than it is. That crew has no problem repeatedly demonizing children.
Things that really bother me: people pushing "save the bees" movements that only care about the survival and proliferation of commercial swarms of European honey bees used for pollination in agricorp. European honey bees are not in much danger. All the solitary bees they outcompete are.
October 29, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Things that really bother me: people pushing "save the bees" movements that only care about the survival and proliferation of commercial swarms of European honey bees used for pollination in agricorp. European honey bees are not in much danger. All the solitary bees they outcompete are.