Investissez dans les crèmes solaires!

Alors que les français commencent à râler des coûts de l’essence, plutôt que de se réjouir d’un effet prohibitif naturel à la combustion des énergies fossiles, et plutôt que de réfléchir aux comportements qu’il conviendrait d’adopter en ce qui concerne une crise qui risque fort de s’enliser et de durer, des scientifiques tirent encore plus [...]

Berrygo Round #5 is up!

You can read this wonderful edition at A Neotropical Savanna just here… This month, BGR is commemorating Linneaus’ birthday with plants. The result is a delicious melting pot of grand taxonomy, treeing and other flowers, a great food and agriculture section and a lot more… Go read.

Interlude (sounds like)

“On n’est pas là pour se faire engueuler” (we haven’t come to get told off) is a song by Boris Vian that I only recently discovered (this is rather curious because it’s apparently well known but hey!).

Best fruit ever?

Pomegranate (Punica granatum), is a fruit originating from Iran and now cultivated in many countries around the Mediterranean Sea. It used to be cooked as juice though this role is now way past. We can find it sold for consumption as a fruit by now, and indeed, it’s really fresh and amazingly accomodate life at [...]

Look for caterpillars, meet orchids!

Attracting pollinators is not only about being colourful but to produce a decent scent. With decent, it is not necessarily meant a perfume-like odour, but something attracting a pollinator. This may be a highly specific task, because when you aim to attract specific pollinators, you decrease the odds that it will disperse your precious gametes [...]

Dam(n)!

I don’t tell you anything about this, but I swear this is really worth reading. Really.

Just calligraphically beautiful

Seedsaside was ‘translated’ from google.jo, see the result here. I find the result very appealing, despite untranslated words to be read –> while anything else <– (but numbers)… I wonder if the automatized translation worked good enough, but I really like the resulting page. And I was trapped by the scrolling tool being on the [...]

Bees segregate between recently visited and unvisited flowers

That may not be news (the study in question* was published in 1992), but this is a rather interesting result… Bees are able to detect if flowers have been visited by another bee, and more readily leave those that have recently been. This behaviour is not difficult to explain: you better have to move if [...]

Berry Go Round expected soon…

Berry Go Round #5 will be hosted at A Neotropical Savanna. Please send your submissions before the 25th… Any post plant related does it, and don’t forget you can suggest your favourite posts even if not your own (BGR is still a young carnival and unsollicited submissions are readily accepted: it allows diversifying the still [...]

Carnival bunch…

More or less late about these, but here are some recent and quite cool carnivals:

Tangled Bank #105 (at the Beagle Project)
Festival of the Trees #23 (at 10000 Birds)
Linneaus Legacy #7 (at the Ethical Palaeontologist)
Oekology #16 (at Scientific Blogging)

I guess this is enough to read until this evening… :-)