Nobody Cares About Nature!

[Innula Zenovka]

I posted this for the second film clip, about the water lily, but the first one, about folding fitted sheets, is worth knowing about too, I guess.

 

[Caete]

 

[Beebo Brink]

I posted this for the second film clip, about the water lily, but the first one, about folding fitted sheets, is worth knowing about too, I guess.

Lily, schmilly. The fitted sheet video is LIFE-CHANGING!!!

 

[Free]

Lily, schmilly. The fitted sheet video is LIFE-CHANGING!!!

 

[Free]

Looks like we're on the cusp of a new season of ship sinking.

Yacht sinks after being rammed by orcas in Strait of Gibraltar

Two people onboard the vessel, Alboran Cognac, were rescued by a passing oil tanker after the incident.

www.bbc.com

 

[Lexxi]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Orcas are still up to their yacht-sinking shenanigans.

Killer whales keep ramming and sinking boats. Scientists now may know why, report says.

An international group of orca experts met to determine why orcas are ramming boats. The leading theory: They're bored and playful.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Isabeau]

I guess some of them are like that guy in New Zealand. Orcas… they’re just like us!

New Zealand man filmed trying to ‘body slam’ an orca in actions described as ‘idiotic’

 

[Lexxi]

Killer whales keep ramming and sinking boats. Scientists now may know why, report says.

An international group of orca experts met to determine why orcas are ramming boats. The leading theory: They're bored and playful.

www.usatoday.com

Just giant sea cats. Playfully batting at ships with their giant fur-less tails.

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Free]

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

fuzzy elephant/manatee thing, last I read. Yes, I'm no fun.

 

[Free]

It's always something.

Explosion of cicada-eating mites has the state of Illinois scratching

The good news: There's little risk beyond the rash. The bad: The rash is awful.

arstechnica.com

A plague of parasitic mites has descended upon Illinois in the wake of this year's historic crop of cicadas, leaving residents with raging rashes and incessant itching.

The mighty attack follows the overlapping emergence of the 17-year Brood XIII and the 13-year Brood XIX this past spring, a specific co-emergence that only occurs every 221 years. The cacophonous boom in cicadas sparked an explosion of mites, which can feast on various insects, including the developing eggs of periodical cicadas. But, when the mites' food source fizzles out, the mites bite any humans in their midst in hopes of finding their next meal. While the mites cannot live on humans, their biting leads to scratching. The mite, Pyemotes herfsi, is aptly dubbed the "itch mite."

"You can't see them, you can't feel them, they're always here," Jennifer Rydzewski, an ecologist for the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, told Chicago outlet The Daily Herald. "But because of the cicadas, they have a food source [and] their population has exploded."

I'm already scratching out of sympathy.

 

[Isabeau]

This is not new, but I just came across it, and reading all the descriptions of pain from each insect sting is hilarious.

The Pain Scale: North America’s Insect Sting Index Revealed | Reliant Pest Management

Explore the world of stinging insects through entomologist Justin Schmidt's pain index and discover the secrets behind different insect stings and their varying pain levels.

reliantpest.com

Ever wondered how insects like wasps, bees, and ants deliver such ferocious stings? The bullet ant is notorious for its excruciating sting, described as a piercing, stabbing pain and considered one of the most intense experiences on the insect sting pain index. But what about other insects? This article explores the world of stinging insects through entomologist Justin Schmidt’s pain index, unraveling the secrets behind different insect stings and their varying pain levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_sting_pain_index

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

I'd freak out if I saw this in the sky at night. Well, I would have until now.

| EarthSky

earthsky.org

 

[Isabeau]

Tiny bit of good news.

Hobbyist beekeepers are buzzing after reversing America’s critical bee shortage in just 5 years | Fortune

Tax breaks for beekeepers and the country’s need for pollinators help explain the busier hives—but climate change still threatens colony collapse.

fortune.com

 

[Free]

Killer Whales are back in the news again (for something more wholesome than yacht sabotage this time).

Benevolent Orca Pods Are Adopting Baby Pilot Whales in an Apparent Effort to Clean Up the Species' Image

Researchers have noticed a strangely sweet behavior among Icelandic orcas: the adoption of a baby whale from an entirely different species.

futurism.com

In interviews with Scientific American, scientists described their shock at observing a pilot whale calf that traveled with an Icelandic pod of orcas over a period of years.

One of those researchers, Chérine Baumgartner, said she and her colleagues at the Icelandic Orca Project initially couldn't believe their eyes.

"At first, we were like, 'Oh my god, this killer whale calf has a problem,'" the researcher said of the bulbous-headed baby she and her team first spotted back in 2022. It looked at first glance like a malformed orca — until they realized it was no killer whale at all.

The next day, when Baumgartner and her colleagues were witnessing the same pod again, the baby pilot whale was absent. Eventually, however, they started seeing baby pilot whales with orca pods throughout 2022 and 2023, and began to develop theories about what was happening.

 

[Erich Templar]

Killer Whales are back in the news again (for something more wholesome than yacht sabotage this time).

Benevolent Orca Pods Are Adopting Baby Pilot Whales in an Apparent Effort to Clean Up the Species' Image

Researchers have noticed a strangely sweet behavior among Icelandic orcas: the adoption of a baby whale from an entirely different species.

futurism.com

Sheep-farmers.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Kilauea is going OFF right now, geez.


Those are the USGS's 24/7 livestreams so feel free to save them.