The Independent Blog: Stop Bugging Me! Or is it time to reconsider our relationship with insects?

Buzzing in your ear, crawling over your skin, coiled in your boot or lying drunken in a woozy cloud of rotten apples. It takes a particular personality to appreciate the virtues of our six and eight-legged neighbours. Invertebrates; the be-fanged, haired, spiked or suckered beasties, are the making of horror films and the base of …

Ecosystem Services Part 1: Pollination

Ecosystem Services concern the free benefits humans derive from the natural world. Scientists have recently begun to evaluate their relative financial value to humankind, especially as ecosystems are modified and degrade and can no longer provide their original functions. Pollination: Intact ecosystems provide habitats for pollinators; the “work-horses” that

Servicios de ecosistemas 1: Polinización

Servicios de ecosistemas Los servicios de ecosistemas se ocupan de los tres beneficios que el hombre obtiene del medioambiente. En los últimos años los científicos han comenzado a evaluar también su valor financiero relativo para la humanidad, especialmente cuando los ecosistemas son modificados y degradados y no pueden cumplir con sus funciones originales: Polinización: Los …

Leaving San Rafael

We left Trotamundos Hostel in San Rafael on New Year’s day 2013 with a group of friends and a packed trailer with food and water for the long open road to San Luis!