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What the hell, man.. no tip?

Traditional Mennonite women not caring about the worthless distractions of our depraved world.

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Hummingbird, Blue Jay and Cedar Waxwing

Birds have the ability to perceive ultraviolet light, which actually means their eyes register what they see in 4, rather than 3, primary colours. This opens up an entire spectrum of colour that is invisible to us.

Bird plumage is stupid gorgeous. With a vast array of colours and patterns, it’s almost hard to imagine that they see each other even more spectacularly than we are able to!

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Bumble bees are going extinct.

Irish honeybees are also under threat by imports of foreign bees — usually hybrid Buckfast or Italian bees.

The native Irish bee is a subspecies of the European honey bee which has evolved over thousands of years to thrive in our very specific climatic and vegetational conditions.

The Dark European Honeybee is on the brink of extinction over most of Northern Europe due to hybridisation with imported bees as well as being severely impacted by imported pests and diseases like varroa.

Pure strains still exist throughout Ireland however.

The mating of bees cannot be controlled, so imported bees mate with Irish bees. Subsequent hybridised generations are genetically screwed up so any observable useful traits are no longer heritable in any predictable way. They also tend to be more aggressive.

If the importation of bees was banned today, the characteristics of the native Irish bee would allow it to thrive while the imported strains would eventually fizzle out.

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“We are going to kill ourselves because of stupidity”