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Cake day: April 12th, 2024

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  • In a sense i agree, but the crash was in Summer in North Dakota and they are European honeybees.

    Honeybees are quite invasive in North America. They kill and displace native pollinators and they are generally less effective pollinators of native plants. The release of dozens more colonies into the ecosystem is a negative thing no matter how you look at it.

    North America has the greatest native bee diversity of any temperate part of the world, but if you go out into habitat and actually start counting insects you will find honeybees outnumber everything else in most places, most times of year.





  • A few that have come up in my group are maritime chaparral, savannah, karst hills, and fog forest.

    The fog forest was my favorite: we had a culture in the area that would burn the forest in the summer to encourage beneficial plants to grow the rest of the year. We called it “the smoky forest” and decided it was generally clouded in fog, smoke, or both depending on the season. In our description it resembled a coastal redwood forest.









  • Hopefully they are converting only Ag land and not good habitat. I’ve been in that area quite a bit and there are still a few scraps of healthy ecosystem here and there between the farms and fallow fields. It’s not clear to me from the map if those are all being preserved.

    Closer to Sac there is an old-growth oak woodland that is planned to be levelled to put in a solar farm. The same thing happens in the Mohave as well: healthy ecosystems bulldozed for solar.

    Solar farms have many benefits, but habitat protection is also incredibly important.