Naturehood

05/15/2023

An attempt to capture the magic of spring migration at Magee Marsh Wildlife Area in a single image. Regardless of one’s personal interest in birds, I firmly believe The Biggest Week In American Birding is something everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime!

04/22/2022

04/11/2022

11/08/2021

The ‘ecotype’, thought to have been wiped out by disease and invasive species, is thriving in the estate’s ancient woodlands

09/09/2021

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08/23/2021

https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/december/doug-tallamy-native-plants-food-web-insects-birds-survival-earth/?fbclid=IwAR2j50Hje-iRkxBNi4yPU5zrrsAzH-Yzh-8yoZWlEAIfeOGD3HVYjUKPPns

UD researchers identify key native plants that support shrinking number of insects, stabilize food webs

07/17/2021

Young worker bees are charged with the task of making beeswax for the colony. Soon after a new worker bee emerges as an adult, it begins producing wax. Honey bee workers have four pairs of special wax-secreting glands on the undersides of their abdomens. From these glands, they secrete liquified wax, which hardens into thin scales when exposed to the air. As the worker bee ages, these glands atrophy and the task of making wax is left to younger bees.

During its peak wax production phase, a healthy worker bee can produce about eight scales of wax in a 12 hour period. The bee colony requires about 1,000 wax scales to make a single gram of beeswax for their comb. The geometry of the honeycomb allows the bee colony to maximize their storage space while minimizing the quantity of wax needed to build the structure.