When we think of bees and food, we rarely think of all the other lives at risk of extinction in the bee goes bust.
We are misguided with our attention on saving the honeybee to save ourselves – the honeybee is not the answer to saving the planet. The honeybee is contributing to ecological collapse, global warming, and the death of thousands of native pollinators in Australia and across the world.
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We have unwittingly exacerbated the global ecological crisis in what we believe to be a supportive move in protecting agriculture and the environment by installing honeybee hives in our backyards.
The backyard bee hive is not a conservation practice. It is a contributing factor to ecological collapse. The European honeybee is an introduced species in our country, and like the cane toad, it has turned out to be a severe bumble.
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Imagine how uninteresting our lives would be without mini-beasts and butterflies.
Gardens would be without curiosities, discoveries would be limited to the obvious, and the magical world of colour and flowers – curated by the miraculous – would be non-existent.
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In the Jungle of Sulawesi, an island in the Indonesian archipelago, a gruesome discovery was made that has forever changed our point of view. 2019, two scientists from Sydney, Australia, were on a getaway, happy snapping the fauna and flora of the jungles in Sulawesi, when they happened upon a butterfly frenzy like none they had seen before.
Caterpillars don’t make cocoons, nor do they sprout wings, grow a proboscis and curly head-wear from a body that shrunk in size on a two-week hiatus from eating so much food.
It is far more miraculous, exciting and mind-boggling – how a caterpillar becomes something entirely other than itself.
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I knew what was happening to me; my brain was shrinking. And the longer I spent alone, the worse it would become, and so I finally decided to do the one thing I avoided for two years plus, packing up and driving home to the only community I had that was still intact, my family.
I did this to save my brain.
Let’s find out in my social experiment whether it’s the quantity or the quality of the company we keep that will kick off our neuro-grow back?. What other elements are essential in re-establishing self, identity and direction in a changing world?.
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Nudibranchs are not only brilliantly adorned harlequin shapeshifters and chemical manufacturing killing machines – These oceanic wonderments have other exciting abilities no one thought possible. Learn why these gorgeous, colourful slugs are considered Pokémons of the sea.
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Theres’ a Disco in The Sea, and You’re invited! –
Down below, where you hardly ever go – the world of a Nudibranch is a cornucopia of colour.
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A celebration of Nudibranchs. Sea slugs that are brilliantly coloured, strangely beautiful and defy biological convention.
Find out what makes a Nudibranch seem more like Pokémon than a slug.
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Sharing the story of this particular species, because of their profound uniqueness – might help change the perception of those not too keen on bugs. Hopefully, you will be inspired, like me, to rethink your relationship with insects and spiders and put down the can of RAID.
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