For the Love of Flies: The Unsung Heroes of the Insect World | Bug Banter Podcast
Flies are amazing insects that play critical roles in our environment, including pollination, waste disposal, pest control, and as a link in the food web. Flies are greatly diverse in colors, shape, s...
On this #BugBanterPodcast, @flygirlnhm.bsky.social is our guide to the incredible world of flies! With their many shapes, colors, & weird superpowers, flies do it all, from pest control to pollination!
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15.04.2025 20:14
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Huge-ass bags of seeds, next to teeny tiny little bags of seeds, next to a stack of "plant native plants" posters, with the words "take one and plant" on the bottom. Also there are posters in teh background that have had clips attached to them.
~600 seeds packs have been distributed throughout Fishtown, Kensington, & Port Richmond. Putting together the next batch, with the PA ecotype seeds for the poster series today.
It's not solving everything, but adding more insect habitat to urban ecosystems while educating? Worthwhile I think.
24.03.2025 18:15
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You want to see an octopus riding a shark.
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21.03.2025 08:14
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Four women taking a selfie together.
A photo of the skyline of Mons, Belgium.
A photo of a PowerPoint presentation about a new EU project on pollinators.
A photo of the back of the Saint Waltrude collegiate church in Mons, Belgium
and that's a wrap for the last AGM of Safeguard! Thank you to Mons for the gorgeous weather, and to the people who make these meetings an utter joy to attend πβ€οΈ (the science was pretty cool too)
21.03.2025 12:53
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