Ann Tomlinson

It's biodiversity, stupid

[Ann Tomlinson @Annat2010]

@LBFlyawayhome Roller towels with my school well into the 70s iirc

[Ann Tomlinson @Annat2010]

@SanAntonioZoo Go Timothy!

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

It’s a life saver

[Ann Tomlinson @Annat2010]

@DavidSevern7 Yes it was. Tucked away inside next to the girls school

[Danica Priest🦇🦎🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 @DanicaPriest]

This!! ⬇️

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Well done St Ives

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A family of barn owls eats around 1,000 rodents a year, some studies say up to 3,000. When we put out rodent poison, the owls eat the poisoned mice, and they die too. Without the predators, the mice come back worse. Skip the rat poison, put up an owl box.

[Dave Goulson @DaveGoulson]

Government grants "emergency authorisation" for use of the neonic insecticide acetamiprid on sugar beet. Deja vu. Product label below.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Ann Tomlinson @Annat2010]

@LBFlyawayhome I want to know what's wrong with a hippo in the swimming pool! 🦛😁

[Ann Tomlinson @Annat2010]

And very nice it was too!
@DavidSevern7

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Rectangular ice cream.
Back when this was the full range of options

[Ann Tomlinson @Annat2010]

@DavidSevern7 🤣

[Ann Tomlinson @Annat2010]

@CincinnatiZoo Happy birthday Big boy !

[Ann Tomlinson @Annat2010]

@DavidSevern7 @giveashitnature Agreed, but community planting schemes can achieve a lot with support

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

No water wasting data centers on Native land.

[Ann Tomlinson @Annat2010]

@DavidSevern7 Gorgeous! Love that rose!

[Ann Tomlinson @Annat2010]

@DavidSevern7 It's true so many hedgerows were ripped out. But modern regeneration farming (and environmental farming schemes) put big value on those margins and they are returning- obviously some better than others.
The garden ideas are nice here and the illustration lovely!

[Christina Hespe @HespeChris34466]

Did you forget it was no mow May @SheffCouncil? This patch was lush a couple of days ago, long grass and wild plants. Looks like a massacre’s occurred now. 😢 Which part of biodiversity crisis are you not understanding? Why do you hate nature so much? @alextomo @GeoffreyLean