Eva Luna

Bug, bird, and Oxford comma nerd. Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris osea).

[Eva Luna @EvaLuna2902]

@josephfalcone97 @TracyWesterman Ordinary Australian here. With all due respect, I do not feel ridiculed by facts. I do follow politics, and I know that billionnaire-backed Pauline has voted against just about everything that would make my life better. And that the two are connected.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The media has not bothered to thoroughly fact check Hansons National Press Club address so I’ve done it for them. 18 false and / or misleading statements. John Paul Janke was the journalist who pushed back on her claims and Sarah Martin questioned her about her daughters position as campaign advisor (rightly so) and was called a “trashy journalist” by Hanson and told she would be banned from future pressers. Nothing else was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Trump came to power partly by a spineless, toe licking media that sane-washed his every utterance and treated him like a normal person - now look at him

Australia - we're in deep trouble

This is Australia's legacy media today, right down to the ABC

Sane washing a maniac

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[Eva Luna @EvaLuna2902]

@FinancialReview No, it wasn't.

[Eva Luna @EvaLuna2902]

@MParker1950 @TruthFairy131 Incorrect. Not even the crime capital Of Oz. The Northern Territory consistently records the highest crime rates per capita in Australia.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In one University of Vermont study, a native purple coneflower drew 729 pollinator visits. The frilly double-flowered cultivar sold right next to it drew 94.

Same plant, supposedly, but very different outcome for pollinators.

Breeders have created "nativars" that stuffed extra petals into the spot where the flower's reproductive parts used to be. It looks like a pom-pom and sells like crazy. When researchers dissected those double coneflowers, they didn't even make seeds. No pollen to gather, and the nectar's walled off behind all those petals.

So a bee lands, finds nothing, and leaves. It's a decoration shaped like a food source.

That's the catch with a lot of nativars. The further a flower drifts from the wild form, especially the double blooms, the less likely an insect can use it.

Skip the 'Double Delight' tag and find the straight species, the one that looks a little wilder and a little less impressive.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Eva Luna @EvaLuna2902]

@parnellpalme @DanielMOakes Of course Grace is not literally calling for violence. This is an ignorant statement. And there is no excuse for it; there are excellent resources available for non-arabic speakers that explain the history of intifada and what it actually means.

[Eva Luna @EvaLuna2902]

@parnellpalme Yes, globalise the intafada. It's 2026. We should ALL rise up agains occupation, apartheid, and genocide. This should not be controversial. #IStandWithGrace

[Eva Luna @EvaLuna2902]

@theage @theage isn't balanced; it refuses to report on significant Vic medical, cultural & infrastructure developments; its relentless persecution of Jacinta Allen is disturbing; disproportionate framing of Westerns perspectives (e.g. lack of Palestinian voices) are the norm; etc. ...

[Eva Luna @EvaLuna2902]

@spenderallegra The SRL, listed as a national priority by Infrastructure Australia, will in fact "faciltiate new housing", in Australia's fastest growing city.

[Eva Luna @EvaLuna2902]

@spenderallegra That was in the early days. More recently: Infrastructure Australia listed SRL as a National priority that "will reduce travel times, facilitate new housing & connect major employment, health, education and retail areas in Melbourne's east and south-eastern suburbs."

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

The TINY 5 MILLIMETRE LONG BEES Powering Giant Eucalyptus Trees! 🐝🌳
Australia's best superheroes are these Euryglossinae bees! ⭐
This special family is only found in Australia where over 400 species are pollinating Eucalyptus trees every single day! 👊🌼

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

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[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Appalled but not surprised to see govt caving to the gas companies.

This just makes me more determined to go harder on our campaign to get a fair return on our gas through a 25% tax on gas export revenue.

Head to https://t.co/dcjuwV2f9S to add your voice.

https://t.co/j91tDxcfCT

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

Really worth reading.
Devastating take-down of Bartlett's credibility.

Wild attack on batteries and renewables by 7's Spotlight program falls over at the first fact check https://t.co/cDuGLhh12V

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Double-flower plants are bullshit.

They're nice to look at, but for every bee, butterfly, and moth visiting your garden, they're a total scam.

Here's what happens: breeders create double flowers by converting the plant's stamens, the pollen-producing reproductive parts, into extra petals.

The nectaries are buried so deep under all those layers that even if nectar exists, a bee can't reach it.

The flower still still sends every signal that says "food is here." The pollinator lands, pushes through the petals, finds nothing, and flies away having wasted energy it can't afford to waste.

The Xerces Society is blunt about it: double blooms are "an absolute no-no" for pollinators — they prohibit access to pollen and nectar and are almost always sterile.

The fix is simple: check for visible yellow stamens in the center of a flower before you buy. If you can see them, pollinators can reach them. If the center is all petals, put it back.

A garden full of beautiful flowers that feed nothing is just a very expensive decoration.

[Mia @DelattreMia]

Simple Bee Watering Station Idea 🐝👍

PS: I inadvertently deleted my previous message on this same topic. However, unlike the deleted video, this one uses wood, a natural material. You can also use natural stones, but not glass or synthetic stones. Thank you all for your valuable advice, some of which is here: https://t.co/h8Ujl4SsAG

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Everybody hates wasps… until they disappear and your grocery bill explodes.

Wasps visit over 960 plant species. 164 of them depend completely on wasps for pollination, including figs. But pollination is almost the secondary story.

Wasps are the planet's exterminators. All wasp larvae are carnivorous.

95% of what wasps feed their larvae are leaf-eating caterpillars. Without them, crop destruction and pest populations would be biblical.

The insect you most want to kill is quietly holding the food chain together.

Before you reach for the spray, ask yourself: is it actually bothering you? Or is it just there?