The Daily Bucket: Fruit Bats by the Sea
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Sun, rain, trees, fish, insects, mollusks,...
View ArticleWind Energy Opponents Go Bats
Over at Tucker Carlson's Right Wing rag The Daily Caller they are celebrating as 102 conservative groups target wind power subsidies. These groups oppose further extensions of the Wind Production Tax...
View ArticleWind Turbines Kill Birds
Renewable energy must be the goal. No right-thinking person can deny that.But wind energy comes with a cost: The deaths of thousands of birds and bats each year.And the Obama administration is "not...
View ArticleBats discovered to be transmission vector in largest outbreak of Ebola in...
The BBC is reporting that scientists have finally discovered that bats are the hidden reservoir and transmission vector for spreading Ebola, as reported, in Guinea Ebola outbreak: Bat-eating banned to...
View ArticlePlague Rats and Expats: Ebola's Spread in American Wildlife?
Troubling research shows that many common animals in the United States are capable of contracting Ebola. With Ebola-infected sewage already introduced into the landfills and sewer systems of at least...
View ArticleConnect! Unite! Act! Dallas, KC, Roanoke, Bisbee & NYC Meet-up Info — Bats,...
A daily series, Connect! Unite! Act! seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups regularly socialize but also get out the vote, support candidates and engage in other...
View ArticleNIMBY Locals, Wind Power, and the Fate of the Allegheny Flyway
The group "Save Our Allegheny Ridges" (SOAR) meets in the pilots' lounge at the Mifflin County Airport. I heard about the group when I attended a regional glider competition, just to watch them take...
View ArticleBernie (and Jimmy) Address The Great Ignored (until recently) Issue of Our Time.
My opinion doesn’t matter. The world matters. Majority interests need to overrule oligarchy.Oligarchic interests are overriding all others causing extreme damage and future threats to the tapestry of...
View ArticleUPDATE 2: IEX APPROVED! HFT: Quick Thing You Can Do To Make Capitalism Safer...
UPDATE 2 June 20th: IEX has been approved by the SEC! UPDATE June 16th:Thank you for all the comments and shares back in February. First, the good news: It looks like the SEC is about to approve IEX...
View ArticleFish & Wildlife Service EIS Addresses Adverse Effects of Midwest Wind...
xEmbedded ContentSite of the Heritage Sustainable Energy's (HSE) Garden Peninsula Wind Energy Project , a controversial wind turbine farm located directly on the migratory bird flyway between...
View ArticleConnect! Unite! Act! San Jose, Oakland, New England, NN16 & Asheville...
The Interactive MAP in FULL SCREENThe orange pinpoints are the location of each organized group of Daily Kos readers. If you'd like to join a group, click on a point and a box will pop up showing...
View ArticleBatshit Crazy (Not about Trump)
Since April 11,000 human residents of the tourist town of Batemans Bay on the southeast coast of Australia have been coping with an inundation of 140,000 bats, the grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus...
View ArticleIAN: June 22, 2016
Aren’t bats cute?! I mean really! Itzl As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat,...
View ArticleDaily Bucket: roads are a serious threat to bats (especially boy bats)
Bats cross roads regularly as they use diverse parts of their habitat area and cover more territory than most other small mammals. They forage for food each night, and commute to different locations...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Of Gothic plants and wild orchids
The Daily Bucket is a place to note what you are seeing around you: animals, weather, meteorites, climate, soil, plants, waters. Each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as we try to...
View ArticleDaily Bucket: maybe this is why wildlife attack humans?
Animals talk to each other, you know. If human jerks go around shooting wolves from helicopters, the birds know and some birds are chatty gossips (corvids!). The wild animals are watching humans and...
View ArticleNot demons! Bats deserve our gratitude for tequila and much more
Scary bats are a Halloween symbol we carve into pumpkins and hang as holiday decor. But we have more reasons to be grateful for bats than to demonize them. The second largest group of mammals (after...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitizing: batty pre-left-overs
My menu tonight features Bat Week leftovers from another diary I wrote and haven’t published yet. So I’m offering the leftovers before the dish is served. The diary I wrote for tonight is on hold due...
View Articlev*v The Daily Bucket Halloween: Of Sepulchers and Barrow Wights v*v (An...
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View ArticlePhoto Diary: Some Texas Critters
Mostly seen during an afternoon along Riverwalk in San Antonio:Snowy Egret standing on the edge of a damGreat Egret hunting for fishDouble-Crested Cormorant drying his wingsAnother Cormorant—not the...
View ArticleWhite Nose Syndrome and American Bats
Since 2006, a deadly epidemic has been raging in North America, causing an environmental catastrophe that remains unknown to most people. White Nose Syndrome, a fungal disease introduced to the US from...
View ArticleCarlsbad Caverns NP, Casa Grande Ruins, and Casa Malpaís Ruins
This is the fifth diary installment of The Dkos Road Tour Series. See explanation at the close of this diary. I trust you will find the information enjoyable and educational. Our destinations today...
View ArticleCorporate media fails to help us understand what’s going on in our lives
One of my favorite writers on the Internet is a guy named Steven Singer. He’s director of the Research and Blogging Committee for the Badass Teachers Association (BATs) and when I want to know about an...
View ArticleNo Impeachment, No 25th? There is Another Way
Where we (barely) stand: the sitting president of the United States is, as judged by the majority of the country, members of his own administration and congressional leaders of his own party,...
View ArticleAs our Earth grows warmer, radar shows bats migrating to Texas beginning earlier
Inside Climate News reported on Valentine’s Day about the disturbing albeit predictable changes in migratory animals patterns, as our earth grows warmer and warmer. Specifically, the millions of bats...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitzing 4/17/2018: Bat Appreciation Day
Juvenile Mariana Fruit Bat (US Fish & Wildlife: Anne Brooke)Good evening, Kibitzers! Apparently, April 17 is National Bat Appreciation Day, although I cannot get Mr. Internet to cough up any...
View ArticleFor The First Time, a Bumble Bee Has Been Added to The Endangered Species List
Days before popular vote loser Donald Trump was installed in the Whitehouse and our gut wrenching national nightmare began, the US Fish and Wildlife Service added the rusty-patched bumblebee to the...
View ArticleDaily Bucket: Pollinator Week celebrates birds bats flies moths butterflies...
While pollinator season is year-round, globally, National Pollinator Week is designated to celebrate and generate awareness for animals who pollinate flowers. Most people already know that some...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: September 17 is Batman Day
September 17 is the 260th day of the year; as well as Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 41, 3184 YOLD to discordians. Really, 17, really? This is always an excuse for me to play Edge of 17. Can I resist? OK,...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: The Bat
By day the bat is cousin to the mouse; He likes the attic of an aging house.derpHis fingers make a hat about his head. His pulse-beat is so slow we think him dead.nap timeHe loops in crazy figures half...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Moondai Evening: Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated, for April...
It is Moondai, and so it is time for our regularly scheduled mischiefery with a mashery of Ogden Nashery (illustrated)! We found that he wrote a pome about April 1, but good luck finding a legible...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: Bitty Batties
OK, it’s Halloween, I suppose I must work bats in here somewhere.bitty batties like buddiesespecially finger buddiesbitty batty with his buddybitty batty in a brabitty batty getting brushedbitty batty...
View ArticleDaily Bucket Halloween: The lesser horseshoe bat
Samhain!The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge.We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own...
View ArticleDaily Bucket: Future story of the present past (about bats)
My mama told me this story, as her mama told her, and all the mamas for ten generations or more. It’s from the time big roads and buildings covered the land, when everyone lived in separate boxes and...
View ArticleRacist Fox News host blames Chinese people for coronavirus, says, 'They eat...
Fox News’ Jesse Watters went after his favorite target Monday night: Chinese people. As host of the The Five, a show on which the cumulative intelligence of the panel adds up to the number 5, Watters...
View ArticleDirective to China and world: DO NOT EAT BATS!
NBC had a special with Richard Engel on Sunday night. He had an interview with a virologist who said basically that all these nasty viruses come from bats, and we just need to leave them alone. Lets...
View ArticleA Speech to End All Speeches !
In a Coronaviral Worldwide Nightmare somewhere in the seemingly UnImpossible all too near Present and Future…….“Yeah, that’s just what I told that pushy broad of a Nurse, when she complained about all...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket Open Thread: Bats!
"Bats are the most significant predators of night-flying insects"Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.[a] With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and...
View ArticleBats, Bushmeat and Viruses: How Climate Disruption Helped Create Covid-19
Climate change is ecosystem change. And like all change it involves myriad and complex consequences. Some consequences of climate disruption—like sea level rise—are easily measured and readily...
View ArticleFormer Trump officials behaving badly: Redfield and Slaoui
This week, former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield declared that he believes that COVID-19 originated in a lab. Also this week, the former head of Operation Warp Speed, Moncef Slaoui, was booted from...
View ArticleTop Comments: Baby Bats Babble, Just Like Human Babies
As both bats and humans are mammals, we should expect at least a few similarities between the species. But one potential similarity struck a bat researcher in Central America as she was listening to...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Living (maybe a little too) Close to Wildlife
The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part...
View ArticleThe Bird of the Year is a Bat
Do you remember when your parents explained to you that bats are not birds? (I do.)www.theguardian.com/…The Forest and Bird Society of Aotearoa/New Zealand runs an annual election for bird of the year....
View ArticleA bat/cat story
Meryt (the fluffy one) is the last surviving of my triplet kittens I adopted in the spring of 2008. When Tuya died, she seemed lonely. So I got her a companion, a very bouncy 5 month old kitten I...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: International Bat Nights
(last full weekend of August is International Bat Nights)Bats are friends to humans! Little brown bats (common in Kansas) can eat 1000 mosquitoes per hour. All sorts of flying insect pests get...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: Happy Halloween From the Bat Cave
Bitty batties for Halloween fun.bitty batties like buddiesespecially finger buddiesbitty batty with his buddybitty batty in a brabitty batty getting brushedbitty batty with bites of fruitbitty batties...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: Bat Appreciation Day
What do bats do for us?Eat loads of flying insect pestsPollinate some flowersyep, some of them are nectar loversBe just cute as heckPWBPeeps is a group that posts a daily diary and nightly open thread...
View ArticleA Poem to Celebrate National Bat Day: Bats in a Tourist Cave
Today, April 17, is National Bat Day (and International Bat Day, too). So go and kiss a bat to show some love for our flying mammal friends. Or, at least, read the following poem from the bats at...
View ArticleBats in Colorado - Not What You Might Think. A Colorado State Open Thread,...
The Colorado State Open Thread covers topics that I hope are of interest to people all around our state of Colorado, and hopefully it appeals to those who are just interested in happenings in...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: 20 years of effort by the Yurok Tribe is undamming the...
This week’s science news roundup looks at two major infrastructure projects in California that set new standards—the largest dam removal in history in NorCal (and it’s impact on Yurok, Karuk and other...
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