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Pollinators and Power

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Animals, Bees, Podcasts
...ve pollinators including A Sting in the Tale, A Buzz in the Meadow, Bee Quest and The Garden Jungle. You can read a transcript of the conversation and subscribe to the podcast using your favorite app. Terry Oxford was a guest on episodes 107 and 109 of the Root Simple Podcast....

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Got a Critter Question?

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Animals, Podcasts
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...Our guest on the next episode of the Root Simple Podcast will be Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild. We’re interviewing her tomorrow (Thursday) so if you have a question about coyotes, moles, raccoons, opossums, squirrels, rats or any of the other creatures that visit our urban backyards, leave a comment....

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Our Phoebe is gone

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Cats
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...kidney stones this Friday. It’s been quite the week! If you listen to our podcast, you can expect it to go up on Thursday or Friday, instead of Wednesday. Thank you all again, all of you, for your support. I’m going to going to eulogize Phoebe a bit after the break, more for my own sake than anything else, since I don’t keep a diary. Expect it will be long and maudlin. Bring tissues. Phoebe was born with the Grim Reaper stalking her, but because...

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The Rat of the Land

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Animals
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...ry and Global Positioning System (GPS) rarely work because of interference from buildings and hard surfaces. At the end of his blog post Frye has a nice collection of research papers on urban wildlife. I highly recommend one of those articles, which was published in Science a few years ago, Evolution of life in urban environments....

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