Blogs about Natural world
18 blogs about Natural world.
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APHA Science Blog
News and updates from the Animal and Plant Health Agency on science.
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World Zoonoses Day: Tackling the challenge of vector-borne diseases World Zoonoses Day falls annually on 6 July On 4 July 1885, a Parisian boy by the name of Joseph Meister was badly bitten by a rabid dog. At the time, this was almost certainly …
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The Apiarist - Blog
Weekly posts on the science and practice of beekeeping. Bees, honey, swarms, bad backs, stings and just about everything else as well.
By David Evans. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Amitraz resistance If I used AI-generated post titles, this week's offering would have been called something like "Ten things you need to know about mite treatment" or "What Vita-Pharma doesn't tell you about Apivar".But I don't. Instead, …
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The Birdist
Birds and Birding.
By Nick Lund. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Birds in Video Games: California Games and Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage (NES) I am old enough that I plated the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) when it was new. It ruled. We had our own console and games, but we also partook in the time-honored and must-missed …
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Carnivorous Plants - Botanical Photography - aldrovanda.com
Field reports about carnivorous plants and botanical oddities in their native habitats. Photos of wild specimines of Drosera, Pinguicula, and Darlingtonia.
By Forbes Conrad. 🇲🇽 More infoUpdated
Stylidium debile in Cultivation Léelo en español Years ago, I grew Stylidium debile in California. After a long period of not growing any carnivorous plants, a friend gave me this division, which just began to flower. Yes, yes, this …
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David Bradley
Science Communication since 1989.
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Never Grows Old – A song A tale of stolen lands and ancestors Genre Fluid by Dave Bradley Never Grows Old I’m riding through the sacred lands Where they’ll take you down and they’ll break your hands Riding in the shotgun …
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Fossil Huntress
Musings in natural history meant to captivate, educate & inspire. Deepen your world.
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GIGANTIC FOSSIL AMMONITE OF FERNIE Titanites occidentalis, Fernie AmmoniteThe Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis, from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. This beauty is the remains of a carnivorous cephalopod within the family Dorsoplanitidae that lived and died …
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Goat-O-Rama
Put some color in your herd!
By Nan Hassey, Phil Hassey. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Farewell Finn We laid our precious boy Finn to rest this afternoon. We don’t know what caused his decline, but he was losing weight throughout the spring and looked unthrifty. He went almost totally off feed about …
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The Hazel Tree
by Jo Woolf.
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A writing update A new children's book now available, and updates about other projects
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Julian Hoffman
Notes from Near and Far.
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The Spirit of the Wetlands “For more than two decades now I’ve lived alongside the pelicans of the Prespa lakes in northern Greece. These birds are—for so many, residents and visitors alike—simply an astonishing and seamless part of being here. …
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Natural History Journal
Notes from a California Naturalist.
By Siera Nystrom. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Abundant Life Nature is all about life - and death.As lovers of the natural world, we delight in the abundant, thriving, humming life all around us, which is at no time of the year more apparent than …
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The Panda’s Thumb
By Matt Young. More infoUpdated
Cheap fossils for only $55! Our colleague Dan Phelps, vigilant as usual, has just sent us [a] nice video by Dr. Joel Duff about collecting fossils at outcrops adjacent to the Ark Park. I was at these outcrops several years …
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Ramblings of a Naturalist
As an ecologist and biodiversity researcher and recorder, the author visits a wide range of rural and urban habitats mainly close to his home in Sedlescombe near Hastings, East Sussex, UK.
By Patrick Roper. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
A trip to Glen More, 1954 My first trip to Scotland was when I was sixteen. At the end of the summer term I was asked not to return to Lancing College, my boarding school, as I was deemed ineducable. My …
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Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week | SV-POW!
All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access.
By Michael P. Taylor, Mathew J. Wedel, Darren Naish. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
PalArch’s Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has been hijacked Back in our annus mirabilis of 2013, one of the Wedel-and-Taylor papers was Neural spine bifurcation in sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation: ontogenetic and phylogenetic implications (Wedel and Taylor 2013). We this published in …
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Scientist Sees Squirrel
Seldom original. Often wrong. Occasionally interesting.
By Stephen Heard. 🇨🇦 More infoUpdated
Shopping cart returns and a philosophy of collaboration I used to be extremely diligent about returning shopping carts to cart-return corrals. But recently, at the supermarket where I usually shop, I’ve found myself being sloppier, and I’m having trouble being bothered by that. …
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Southern Rockies Nature Blog
Where Nature Meets Culture—Plus Wildfire, Dogs, Environmental News, and Writing with a Southern Rockies Perspective.
By Chas S. Clifton. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Travels: The Great Dismal Swamp and a Rebellion Last April, while visiting the Virginia coast for my wife's family reunion (more on that below), I held out for the one thing that I wanted to do — to see at least some of …
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Springwatch - BBC Blogs
Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch Blog. A place to talk UK Nature.
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Discover toads and how you can help them Written by Cathy Robinson, nature and travel writer, for Naturehood at Earthwatch Europe Have you been lucky enough to spot a pair of copper-coloured eyes peeping out from a hidey hole this spring? If you …
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Stephen Bodio
Notes from Tiger Country.
By Stephen Bodio, Libby Frishman-Bodio, John Burchard, Reid Farmer, Sea Run. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity Eagle Hunting ancient practice – Mongolia There are about 250 Kazakh eagle hunters in the Altai Mountains in western Mongolia and it takes five years to finish training with eagles to become an eagle hunter …
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Tetrapod Zoology
Discussion of all things tetrapod and vertebrate palaeontology, and many things not.
By Darren Naish. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Grayiids: Africa Has Water Snakes Too You’ll recall that my aim for 2024 is to rescue and revamp a good deal of old squamate-themed material from the Tet Zoo archives…. Caption: Smith’s African snake Grayia smythii (…. or should that be …