From the comments to that last linked article on wasps:

Bees were once wasps but diverged from them during the Cretacious period when flowering plants appeared in nature. In effect, they made peace with the natural world choosing a diet of flower pollen over that of their former hunter scavenger selves. The beginnings of ‘flower power’. Peace to the bees.

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Linkblog 🔗: Country diary: We should open our eyes to the wonder of wasps

Never seen anything like this before: How a fake ‘IPL’ cricket league ran for Russian punters 🏏🔗

Late lunch in the bar 🍺

Anchovies 🐟

Games 🎲

Looking towards Mount Athos

Image of the Harpie, 1497

I’m struck by some images on a Kindle 🫤

from The Burning Man by Frances Wilson

Linkblog 🔗: Long gone, but speaking clearly to our age – Shelley, the poet of moral and political corruption

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes (12), James Taylor (8), Derrick Harriott (1) & Linval Thompson (1) via tweekly.fm

Currently reading: Don’t be a Jerk by Brad Warner 📚

Currently reading: Z by Vassilis Vassilokos 📚

Drinks in a bar with my daughter. She finds my conversation stimulating 😉 📕 🍺

Alex in Limenaria

Waves

Breakfast after a night of storms, thunder and lightning ⛈