Removing cut vegetation is important for maintaining species rich and flowering vegetation. When having too choose between these machines and not removing the cuttings or not cutting at all I pick the machines any time.

Great new study by Reinier de Vries (and others), who caught 170,000 individuals and identified 27,200 of them to species level. Makes you understand why few studies have done this so far.

Finished data collection for this paper 19 years ago 🫣

Important to promote farmland wildlife, but this paper in Science, (doi.org/10.1126/scie...) published 2 days ago, highlights that in intensive agricultural landscapes we first need MORE habitat before we put effort in enhancing quality

Yes, we want to know at what distance plant populations become reproductively isolated. And whether, restoring patches of wildflowers reduces isolation or actually worsens it (pollen competition). Both are possible.

They seem to be a lot less shy on Terschelling (NL). Took this one yesterday with my phone.