Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. Unless mentioned, all links should be free of paywalls.
article: Are any animals able to photosynthesize? The occasionally blurred line between plant and animal (Heather Wall/Natural Wonders) Short answer, yes, and those than can — sea slug, spotted salamanders (in egg form), oriental hornet, and tiny pea aphids — do it in various and weird ways.
article: Southern Native Trees and Shrubs Northern Gardeners Should Try (Jared Barnes/Horticulture) Most of these are already growing in our town or nearby (in NH) (I think they’ve mislabelled the yellowroot shrub at the bottom).
photo essay: Photos of the Week: It’s Sandhill Crane Time on the Central Platte River! (Chris Helzer/The Prairie Ecologist) Each year in March, 85% of the world’s sandhill cranes “pour into a fairly narrow reach of the Platte and each bird spends a few weeks or more eating as much as they can.”
article: The Lengthening Days of Spring (Maggie Weng/The Outside Story/Northern Woodlands) “The degree to which each forest dweller relies on photoperiod can … lead to mismatches in timing, particularly as the seasons become more unpredictable due to climate change. … decades of historical observation and citizen science show that ‘budburst,’ when leaves and flowers start to grow, has shifted earlier by about two weeks in the Northeast. … The crossed wires between photoperiod and temperature can also lead to differing rhythms between animals and their food sources, such as insects hatching out and developing before migratory birds arrive.”
Leave a Reply