If you somehow are not already in love with bark beetles, we self-interestedly recommend this wonderful new book: The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles, by Jiri Hulcr and Marc Abrahams.
Tag: forest
The BioBlitz Dance Tutorial
The Official BioBlitz Dance Tutorial is a tutorial on how to do the official BioBlitz dance. Watch, if you are of a mind to: One of the video’s chief merits is its first two thirds, which shows a man standing in a forest. One of its other chief merits is its final third, which does not. (Thanks […]
Romanian university students & their Transylvanian fruits
The thorny question of which types of forest fruits are preferred by Romanian university students has been largely resolved. “Students eat a large variety of berries, the most commonly consumed being the raspberries, walnuts, hazelnuts, blackberries, wild strawberries, blueberries, which are the most easy to find in the forests of Transylvania or in the surrounding […]
How to blow up a cow (officially)
The BBC reports (HT Adam Orbit) that US authorities might explode some dead cows: Frozen Colorado cows may be blown up A group of stray cows that froze to death in the Colorado mountains must be blown up or set on fire to avoid water contamination, forestry officials say. The carcasses were discovered near the Conundrum Hot […]