"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I googled this expecting to find other videos and whatnot but apparently it's something of a debate as to whether or not people should be doing this. I only gave it a quick glance so I actually don't understand what the big deal is.
I googled this expecting to find other videos and whatnot but apparently it's something of a debate as to whether or not people should be doing this. I only gave it a quick glance so I actually don't understand what the big deal is.
There's a couple of things going on here but probably the biggest issue is that if bees find a good food source they'll return to the hive and recruit other bees, expecting it to be maintained for a while. (Also you have to be careful with sugar concentration levels, more than 20-25% isn't great for a bunch of reasons). So unless you want a bunch of bees hanging around for a while, don't feed them, otherwise you're just messing with their heads. Secondly, bees have a natural life cycle and will burn themselves out while foraging, that's just what happens (the september carpet of dead bumble bees in northen germany was really weird to me the first time I saw it). So a tired bee might just be a dying bee, and the colony isn't gonna be helped by putting the bee on life support. In some ways it's best to think of individual social insects as sub-elements of a larger system rather than autonomous beings, eg. you're not necessarily helping a person by bandaging up a hang nail instead of just cutting it off.
Some people set up bee feeders as a kind of permanent station in their gardens, but you also risk attracting wasps and other insects. And if the sugar concentrations are too high, bees will go to feeders instead of flowers and therefore their pollination benefits will be lost. Plus there are compounds in plant nectar which don't exist in plain old sugar water, which might contribute to colony health levels (I'm not as worried about this personally because bees will never restrict their foraging to just one source, and it's never been something that my colleagues who research bees have expressly worried about, although those hives all have dedicated bee keepers so they can intervene if things get out of balance).
It's a Kookaburra, they do that all the time. In groups. It actually sounds like they're laughing, it's quite nice - we've got a couple of families of them in the park across the road.
Yeah I learned the song too, I think it was from Barney. Because they didnt picture one I imagined it as being a primate of some sort instead of a bird. That version didnt have the counting monkey verse in it tho.
My friend's mother had a heart attack so they packed up their whole household and are driving 3/4 of the way across the country to go help out
Turns out you can get a cat to not hate long car rides quite as much if he can get to cuddle with his big sister poodle all the way (he still mostly hates it though)
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the new dead by daylight update looks great
so regular tube weekend
Its like herding cat:
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
ah my new favorite thing
I googled this expecting to find other videos and whatnot but apparently it's something of a debate as to whether or not people should be doing this. I only gave it a quick glance so I actually don't understand what the big deal is.
wanna meet this crab
There's a couple of things going on here but probably the biggest issue is that if bees find a good food source they'll return to the hive and recruit other bees, expecting it to be maintained for a while. (Also you have to be careful with sugar concentration levels, more than 20-25% isn't great for a bunch of reasons). So unless you want a bunch of bees hanging around for a while, don't feed them, otherwise you're just messing with their heads. Secondly, bees have a natural life cycle and will burn themselves out while foraging, that's just what happens (the september carpet of dead bumble bees in northen germany was really weird to me the first time I saw it). So a tired bee might just be a dying bee, and the colony isn't gonna be helped by putting the bee on life support. In some ways it's best to think of individual social insects as sub-elements of a larger system rather than autonomous beings, eg. you're not necessarily helping a person by bandaging up a hang nail instead of just cutting it off.
Some people set up bee feeders as a kind of permanent station in their gardens, but you also risk attracting wasps and other insects. And if the sugar concentrations are too high, bees will go to feeders instead of flowers and therefore their pollination benefits will be lost. Plus there are compounds in plant nectar which don't exist in plain old sugar water, which might contribute to colony health levels (I'm not as worried about this personally because bees will never restrict their foraging to just one source, and it's never been something that my colleagues who research bees have expressly worried about, although those hives all have dedicated bee keepers so they can intervene if things get out of balance).
big deal, i can do the same thing
then drink some seawater, wait a while, rinse and repeat. like they say, 'water water everywhere, a lot of drops will sink'
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Do a barrel roll!
Friend, you have got to calm the fuck down.
It's a Kookaburra, they do that all the time. In groups. It actually sounds like they're laughing, it's quite nice - we've got a couple of families of them in the park across the road.
My mum used to sing this to me when I was very small
Not sure why, we're not Australian, but it's a very early memory
Koalas. Don't @ me.
Monkey, no. They are cuddly chlamydia dispensaries.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Nope
I do not understand the physics behind this but I want to:
Sound on for purrs:
Whats this? Whats this!?
Turns out you can get a cat to not hate long car rides quite as much if he can get to cuddle with his big sister poodle all the way (he still mostly hates it though)
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!