I have been using numbers in my notebooks to measure natural capital. There are assets that are different. Life on earth is possible and enjoyable for humans. We haven't attributed any value to them compared to other things. It looks like a mistake.
It is an open-ended data quest where the answers prompt a new question. The combination of high summer temperatures and environmental anxiety has been making me sad. A giant bee rings my doorbell in the middle of the night. This is how it goes.
Bee dropped for payment. My question is, for what? The window is being cleaned. The bee said no. There are pollination services. I didn't know you charged for that. Bee said we didn't. Nature's contribution to human wellbeing was worked out by economists. It made them think. "How much do you want?" I don't have that kind of money. Do you have any experience with Musk? Bee wanted you to settle up for humankind. We would not have to go door to door. You can pay the annual charge for your household. I said that is still steep. You have to talk to my friend Mrs Hornet. She has a lot of anger management problems. Is there a card reader in your house?
When I wander into our greenhouse in the morning, I feel calmer. There is an electric toothbrush lying in a corner. We don't open the doors or the vent during the summer. The bees, wasp and hoverfly are doing their jobs. They haven't shown any signs of unionising.
Worker honey bees have been leaving their colonies in large numbers. This doesn't seem to be a protest against capitalism. It could be caused by pesticides, epidemics, or a combination of all of them. Something is clearly not right. The same applies to animals. Habitat loss, bug sprays and monocultures have wiped them out in the UK. Abundance is too brief to benefit from large acres of the same crop flowering at the same time.
Gardeners can help out by forswearing pesticides and growing flowers for bees to eat.
The queen bumble’s career is replete with treachery and palace coups. Bumble home life makes the Borgias look like the Waltons
The rule is to not feature anything that Barbara Cartland might have done. Double blooms are gone. Blue and purple flowers are preferred by bees.
bees love lavender and it can survive the summer heat in English gardens. My mother enjoyed watching the bees plunder the lavender patch in the garden of the nursing home when she was very sick. The life force was present here.
Borage is often given a plug. They call it bee bread. I didn't think it was going to work. Every single stem flopped over on the ground without being staked. Maybe I didn't have the right variety. Scabious is one of the bee magnets. I bought plants that flowered and died in our soil.
The hardcore nature gardener would be better served by viper's bugloss. I haven't found it so intrusive. Valerian is a flower that does well around ponds and benefits smaller pollinators.
You might think that bumblebees are hard to tell apart, but they are. Some people can only be identified by looking at their genitals. This looks like bad behavior. The UK's main species is easy to identify.
A guide can be found on the website of the BumblebeeConservation Trust. Non-classicists don't have to worry about the binomial system. There are better illustrations in the field guides. As with treachery and palace coups, the brief text gives insight into the queen bumbles career. The Borgias look like they are from the TV show "The Waltons".
The decline of bee populations in Britain is the subject of Dave Goulson's A Sting in the Tale. The book, its derivatives and baggy estimates of the economic value of insect pollination all show the same message. Something needs to be done.
Researchers at Harvard University are. It isn't the right thing. A bee is being worked on. The device is available for licensing on the website of the Wyss Institute, which is located in Harvard.
I don't think this idea is a good one. Billions of tiny drones are going to be built at a huge cost to do a job that bees would do better for nothing. The dumbest creatures are us. We must be laughing at them.
Jonathan is the leader of the group.
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