Wile I was living in Texas I was trying to spread the word of love for aggro native bees and only met folks that couldn't see the picture I was trying to paint of their importance. Thank you so fucking much for that opener!!!
Had a face to face encounter with a male Valley Carpenter bee (Xylocopid Varipuncta) the other day. He flew in, did a few disgruntled laps around the non-flowering Helianthus Californicus before flying off annoyed and pissed off at the world.
Those glochids are way worse than the spines, my thumb is still messed up from them. I accidentally grabbed a prickly pear fragment stuck to my shoe while at the beach that I had no idea was there, i had multiple big spines I had to pull out but some of them glochids got stuck in my skin, I tried salves but didn't work and it got infected and had to have surgery but turns out there is still more glochids stuck in my thumb so I'm going to have to have my thumb cut open again. Beautiful flowers. But if weren't for modern medicine and surgery my ass would have died of infection. I have an ambivalent feeling about cactuses now. I still admire them though
When I was a kid, my uncle had a house in south Oklahoma that had a lot of prickly pear gardens around it. I made the mistake of grabbing one of the fruits, and spent the next week wishing I hadn't. Luckily, none of them got below the skin fully but I distinctly remember the feeling of feeling the undiscovered ones brushing against the blanket at 2am. Ugh.
I have never heard someone cat call a bee before. "Look at his little ass! Look at his ass!" "They don't hang out too long." Jeez, I would leave too. Bee gonna be ass conscious from now on.
I live in NC. I've cultivated a huge bed of native wildflowers as I'm converting our stupid lawn. Im not just converting the whole thing at once because letting it grow up every year I find new native species and I pick em out and transplant them into a safer spot inside of the converted strip. Anyway the native carpenter bees go wild for my flowers and I always catch them sleeping during the spring and summer in the flowers
Doing something similar in north Georgia. I'm on a dirt road and find interesting stuff right off the road. Got tons of native Baptisia, white and blue. Just found some Galax in my woods edge, I'm beating back neighbor's English Ivy, somehow it survived.
Yeah my dad had a bunch of Bumble Bees that lived in the somewhat sandy soil of his vegetable garden. This sounds strange but they really seemed to like my dad for some reason.
The bumble bees like me. Or more specifically they like the papaver somniferums I grow on my balcony. It's great to watch them each year going absolutely crazy for those flowers. They barge their way in before they're even fully open and go crazy for the pollen. I observed one flower last no more than six hours from start to finish, opening to petal drop, because they went at it so hard.
"Like" might insinuate that they were trying to defend their nest by making threat displays. Bumblebees are generally more reluctant to sting than honeybees, but are known to use intimidation tactics to defend their nest. They're also known to remember places and objects for several days.
We love the cool bees! Look, there's no denying it even in Europe, the honey bee is too present everywhere. Yes, we need them a bit in pollinating our crops but they outcompete the wild bees drastically. Couple that with habitat loss, use of excessive amounts of pesticides etc. we have ourselves a nice insect crisis that's only gonna get worse.
it is getting quite dry here in SW New Mexico too...at the moment the native wild flowers are pretty amazing and I am excited for the barrel, cholla and prickly pear to boom. Sure wish we had Peyote here, I would love to see them growing wild. I love seeing the native leaf cutter bees and the huge bumbles too. Hoping for a good monsoon season!
Man, I live in the middle of a city in Brazil, Atlantic Forest climate, about 1800 to 2000 mm/year of precipitation (of course they don’t get all That a water ). And peyotes produces fruits. In fact I have two generations of peyotes in my house now. And I never saw any pollnator.
Joey explains this in the video. Unlike a lot of cacti, L. williamsii can self-pollinate, but of course benefits from x-pollination and will typically produce more seeds of so. Among cultivated l. williamsii some may be self-sterile or produce nonviable seed due to inbreeding factors Wheras Opuntia prickly-pears tend be self-sterile. Because they're small, and may only produce 1-3 flowers per year, often none, self pollution allows them to have some seed output.
A torch was lite centuries ago when man began inquiring with more methodology than pure curiosity into natures wonders. You my good man are fighting the good fight to aid in keeping that torch burning bright. Your affinity for knowledge and plants is inspiring and I respect and thank you for doing what you do. Cheers my good man 🍻
Hey Tony. Reminds me of my own Peyote flowering and producing seeds way back when I was still living with my parents. Note, I had it right at the house wall with 100+ other cacteae and I managed to sprout them and get over 30 little ones developing. But as I had no nursery for the young they didn't make it. It even was a small miracle that they made it this far - IN GERMANY! And today I have an Opuntia ruida at my window sill like the one with the dozens of gray beatles in the flower, but with golden glochids that look real nice and turn horrible if you dare to touch them - my neighbours kids did once, and they cried for days. Tom 😎
my response to T 1:03 Daddy Chill! ... jokes aside yes honey bees are getting all the attention and the campaign can be lacking of information regarding other important pollinators, BUT, i wouldn't know about the problem if it wasn't for that same campaign. so maybe don't hate on it and see it as a possible introduction to people educating themselves to the pollination problem we have.
@@anactualmechanic2058Different insects have differently shaped probosci etc and feed on / pollinate different flowers. The easiest way I've found to grow the plants that certain species do or don't use is to simply keep an eye out for which ones go for which flowers when I'm out and about enjoying nature. Then all you have to do is go back to the plants you want and collect some seeds when they're ready. It may take a little time, but it gives you a good reason to go to nice places and in a year or 2 you'll have the beginnings of a collection of plants that benefits exactly the insects you'd like to help most.
If the bees are hybridized the the East African subspecies, you need to be careful round them (from the notes I guess you found that out already). Worst case scenario is they can kill you. (I have a friend who used to keep bees near his place, and one day, for no known reason, they just went beserk, swarmed, and stung everything they could. In this case they killed his neighbour's dog. That was nearly followed by his neighbour killing him. And this kind of thing is not uncommon. I've heard of several other cases of "bees running amok". It's not swarming. When they swarm they look dangerous, but are pretty harmless. It's not always caused by the hive being disturbed. Something happens that tips the balance that puts them in full attack mode, and then all hell breaks loose. They'll chase you a very long way, for starters.) A not much better scenario is that they can make you allergic, so next time you get stung, if you can't get an adrenaline shot quickly, you die. This happened to my brothers. Bees somewhere on the farm went crazy for some reason, and he got about 20 stings. Before that, bee stings had never been a problem, but now if he gets a sting it's potentially deadly.)
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Great video Joey! The witte museum in San Antonio has a pair of Native sandals (and other items) made from lechuguilla fibers. Cave finds from trans-pecos region.
Very interesting - I've been propogating williamsii in a shitty little apartment in the north of england for about 15 years now and I've never seen a single pollinator on them. Wish I had, because it would save me a load of effort - I guess I need to get some beetle housemates.
Would love to see you out in the Chisos Basin. That place is an awesome convergence of geology and botany since it's up above the desert floor. Need more West Texas content!
Hey Tony I'm a groundskeeper up here by the lava river cave in bellemont. What natives can I push on Management. We got a lot of dryscape and we're up at 7k fas. Help Please I wanna put this place on kill your lawn season 2!!
Hedeoma is one of my favorites but I just like how it smells. Of you're near flagstaff there's the Arboretum that also sells some native plants. Native Plant and Seed is also a great resource.
So I was just in Texas for the first time 3 weeks ago and took a cutting of a prickly pear and cholla.. those glockets or whatever are no joke... those little fuckers got everywhere. Places I don't understand... sick ass cacti tho. I'm stoked they just started rooting. Def gonna grow them out so I can go plant a cutting back in Texas ❤ if you take. You gotta give
I grew up in Odessa, there is a miniature forest between Odessa and Monahans. Have you heard of this? Also, caprock falloff might have some unusual stuff. Between Odessa and Crane. 🆒. Love all of your videos. 😎. 🆒💨 to you.
I had no idea that insects sleep. I mean makes sense thinking about it, but for some reason I just assumed they didn't have the time since they live such short lives. But that's only in comparison to ours I suppose
Macrotera is a great find. The males are polymorphic and they will bet-hedge each year, where only half the brood will emerge annually. They've gotta be my fav bees I see in Tucson, but the ones in Texas are arguably cooler.
I love hearing about the native bees, I didn't know about your natives before you mentioned them recently, I'm a huge fan of ours in Oz, the way some plants have evolved to rely on vibration at the frequency the bees create, to release the pollen, to me is ingenious, but also detrimental to their survival.
Having specialized plant-pollinator relationships is an advantage because it provides much fewer opportunities for viral or fungal pathogens to hitchhike around, especially from other unrelated species(see: smallpox). Yes, plants have sexually transmitted diseases too. If course there are obvious drawbacks. An example of this are Yuccas which usually have a single species of moth which pollinate them. If you plant a yucca well outside it's normal population range, yucca moths aren't big fliers, it won't produce any fruit or seeds.
@@TSorovanMHael yeah 1 of the issues they faced with some Australian food plants, is not having the insects etc or just not knowing what pollinates them, they fruit well in nature, but commercially fail (not that that's completely a bad thing)
Great close-up at 8:34. It looks like the peyote flower is dichogamous based on the expanded stigma loves but I can't see whether the stamens have collapsed or are getting ready to expand and dehisce. Joey, are the flowers protogynous or protandrous? It would be useful to find out how long the female phase lasets versus the male phase.
> are the flowers protogynous or protandrous? Curious too. Visually (without magnification) it seems the stamens unfurl a little more on 2nd day. At first they're pointing inward and even downwards. edit: Timestamp appears to be later in day 1. Bottom left is how they'd appear at first, bent over like that. 2nd day they'd be more upright and separated from each other.
You should check out the Dasylirion for the Thrincopyge genera. A beautiful Buprestidae that feeds at the base of the plants. There’s 2 species that are much more beautiful than the Acmeaodera.
Hi Joey, This video is interesting, I thought solitary bees pollinated peyote! I was surprised that small beatles help with this task. Question Joey. I've heard that the saguaros are boiling and collapsing from the climate change. Is this true? And will the smaller cacti fare better through this planetary wreck stupid squares have brought to the planet? I love the work you are doing! Have you considered going to private properties naming and tagging the different species there for a fee? Many may like this. The red blooded type like us.
Yes they do in the present as in tje past. L. williamsii is considered sacred by many mative nations such as the Diné(Navajo), the Mashgaléńde(Mescalero Apache) or, Wixáritari (HuicholI) to name just a few. It is, and was typically used in religious ceremonies and also medicinally to treat mental ailments. For example the Huichol pantheon contains a deity who is the personification of the peyote. These days most native tribes cultivate it to the extent that they use it for religious ceremonies, rather than harvesting it wild. Mr Santore has another video where he interviews a peyote grower. It was well known and highly respected by most native groups in the area where it grows. Native people were known to traditionally collect the fruits and scatter the seeds. The main threat aside from suburbaniztion is poaching by people looking to make a quick buck who simply pry up and snatch as many as they can find rather than judiciously, harvesting offshoots from older central plants and helping to spread seeds.
I don't expect that it would be able to treat systemic effects of Syphilis once it had become entrenched. I believe the latex sap was used historically to treat any number of skin lesions including those found in Pinta, Yaws, and Eurasian Syphilis. Those diseases are all caused by various strains of Treponema pallidum bacteria. The sap of E. antisyphillitica seems to be effective at killing a range of bacteria in a petri dish while being mostly nontoxic to humans unlike some other Euphorbias. Although the same can be said of a lot of plants. The secondary chemistry of E. antisyphillitica isn't well researched. So, maybe it does something, maybe it doesn't. Although I still wouldn't recommend taking a bunch of candelaria internally. Probably would be OK if you rubbed it on your ass rash.
I'm...sorry?? 😳 Bees that are solitary? That don't make hives? 🤯 I am all ears. Literally, I have transformed into an example of body horror, I am now a human-shaped form comprised solely of ears 👂🏾👂🏾👂🏾
@@sunshinevalley0Theres something else wrong with the tree and they know it's been weakend. If you can save the underlying problem with the tree, you won't have an ant problem.
I just got caught up watching your entire video backlog (the plant videos, that is) yesterday. Now I'm feenin for more mind-expanding, natural science-related content. Any channels you personally follow/recommend? I saw somewhere that you follow a geologist/professor Nick Zentner, and I plan to check him out. Anyone else? P.S. I bought all the books you recommended and a local flora and have identified all the plant species in my yard and I use iNaturalist on a regular basis to learn about more; and it's all your fault. I haven't killed my lawn yet, but I've stopped adding foreign inputs to it and I use a human-powered reel mower (like Grandpa used to use). I also have a big section of my back yard that I only mow a quarter of once every 3 months. Fallopia scandens is gradually choking out the fescue there. Erigeron canadensis and Solanum emulans are also common in that area. A single Mirabilis nyctaginea and a single (?) Solidago canadensis have established themselves there. And I'm hoping that the heavily fruiting Persicaria pensylvanica, Amaranthus tuberculatus, Chenopodium berlandieri, and Panicum dichotomiflorum plants that I drug through that area last year will result in them establishing themselves there this year.
Mowing, is unfortunately, but perhaps not surprising bad for the grass and for the soil as well. It causes plants to develop shallow roots and to greedily suck up nutrients out of the soil due to being stressed. Causes the soil to become compacted, so you have to "aerate" it. Whereas if you don't mow it, it feeds more sugars to fungal symbionts and grows roots twice as deep. Mowing makes the grass less tolerant of dryness, and, go figure, you have to keep fertilizing it. Otherwise it gets sickly and succumbs to insects and pathogenic bacteria. But, just ask the companies making a killing selling grass fertilizer. Better mow it once a week, you wouldn't want it to look "shaggy" would you? Broadcasting fertilizer is also generally bad for the environment because some of it runs off into the watershed and groundwater. I've planted a bunch of clover in my lawn and only mow it once a year. I plan to keep reseeding the clover until it takes over. I want to turn it into a wildflower meadow over the next few years. Looks wild with a lot of Taraxacum popping up, which is also good for pollinators and good for fungal diversity. Fuck my neighbors. Clover needs less water, almost no fertilizer. It grows deeper roots and doesn't need pesticides. I just top dress it with composted green waste in the fall.
I would be curious what role of mosquitoes actually play in the ecosystem. there's a lot of talk about genetically modifying mosquito populations, one video I saw about it mentions that there's certain flowers that rely on mosquitoes, so I wonder how much damage that's going to do what's not going to get pollinated if they go through with this idea, and also how many things in the ecosystem rely on mosquito larvae as food. mostly they were focused on the breed of mosquito that goes for humans and carries human affecting diseases. (and of course I'm saying this as somebody who absolutely hates mosquitoes, I'm just worried about the consequences that we're not thinking of, which is a common side effect of human pest Control history.
My lophs have been flowering, but i didnt see any fruits Well yesterday i caught a snail 🐌 eating them, they dont fuck with tbe cactus but they do eat the fruits Its been raining a lot lately in Austin so usually the snails dont bother me
Northern forms are self-fertile. Others not so much. Have seen fruit void of seeds. Figure they'll put it out there for the ants regardless occasionally.
Candelaria was used as a traditional remedy for syphilis, back before antibiotics were known about. Not sure how well it actually worked, probably not that well. I assume it gave you some serious diarrhea on top of being a siphilitic wreck.
Gorgeous (and sexy). Hadn't thought about the pollinator-plant-warming vicious cycle before. More heat -> fewer pollinating hours, fewer seeds + less diversity, fewer calories for pollinators... ugh. And less diversity means population slower to adapt. Where did I leave my heat-shock proteins?
Euphorbia sap tends to burn. People probably guessed that made it medicinal. However, I don't recommend rubbing poison into your genitals, other things being equal.
Thank you for saying fuck the European Honey Bees! I hate narcissistic conservation that is based around helping a species because it benefits us, least of all when it's not even native, when there are so many wild bees that need protection that are actually part of the natural ecosystem. Sadly most people are only concerned about helping the Earth and the ecosystem if it protects or enhances human life....which I guess is why many NGOs try to focus on ways to mingle to the two, because they know most people are too selfish to actually care about something that doesn't directly benefit them., especially if you live in a third world country where biodiversity loss is most prevalent.
Wile I was living in Texas I was trying to spread the word of love for aggro native bees and only met folks that couldn't see the picture I was trying to paint of their importance. Thank you so fucking much for that opener!!!
Localy over here in sweden it's me and my brush😂❤
Edit: yes, it's dirty and I play special funk music when we go about the brushing😂
at first I thought you were talking about the porn theme of using a hairbrush as a dildo, but no you're talking about pollination brushes
jätte roligt 😁
What're they DOIN' in there?!
Had a face to face encounter with a male Valley Carpenter bee (Xylocopid Varipuncta) the other day. He flew in, did a few disgruntled laps around the non-flowering Helianthus Californicus before flying off annoyed and pissed off at the world.
When you live in a hole in a log, the world is prone to piss you off.
Those glochids are way worse than the spines, my thumb is still messed up from them. I accidentally grabbed a prickly pear fragment stuck to my shoe while at the beach that I had no idea was there, i had multiple big spines I had to pull out but some of them glochids got stuck in my skin, I tried salves but didn't work and it got infected and had to have surgery but turns out there is still more glochids stuck in my thumb so I'm going to have to have my thumb cut open again.
Beautiful flowers. But if weren't for modern medicine and surgery my ass would have died of infection.
I have an ambivalent feeling about cactuses now. I still admire them though
When I was a kid, my uncle had a house in south Oklahoma that had a lot of prickly pear gardens around it. I made the mistake of grabbing one of the fruits, and spent the next week wishing I hadn't. Luckily, none of them got below the skin fully but I distinctly remember the feeling of feeling the undiscovered ones brushing against the blanket at 2am. Ugh.
I have never heard someone cat call a bee before.
"Look at his little ass! Look at his ass!"
"They don't hang out too long."
Jeez, I would leave too.
Bee gonna be ass conscious from now on.
I live in NC. I've cultivated a huge bed of native wildflowers as I'm converting our stupid lawn. Im not just converting the whole thing at once because letting it grow up every year I find new native species and I pick em out and transplant them into a safer spot inside of the converted strip.
Anyway the native carpenter bees go wild for my flowers and I always catch them sleeping during the spring and summer in the flowers
hey NC here too- doing similar. haven't spotted any snoozers but they sure love passiflora
Doing something similar in north Georgia. I'm on a dirt road and find interesting stuff right off the road. Got tons of native Baptisia, white and blue. Just found some Galax in my woods edge, I'm beating back neighbor's English Ivy, somehow it survived.
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Yeah my dad had a bunch of Bumble Bees that lived in the somewhat sandy soil of his vegetable garden. This sounds strange but they really seemed to like my dad for some reason.
The bumble bees like me.
Or more specifically they like the papaver somniferums I grow on my balcony.
It's great to watch them each year going absolutely crazy for those flowers.
They barge their way in before they're even fully open and go crazy for the pollen.
I observed one flower last no more than six hours from start to finish, opening to petal drop, because they went at it so hard.
@@bakedbean37carefull you catch something worse than bee's.
Bees have a memory that lasts a couple days, they can probably recognize your dad if he works in his garden daily.
"Like" might insinuate that they were trying to defend their nest by making threat displays. Bumblebees are generally more reluctant to sting than honeybees, but are known to use intimidation tactics to defend their nest. They're also known to remember places and objects for several days.
We love the cool bees! Look, there's no denying it even in Europe, the honey bee is too present everywhere. Yes, we need them a bit in pollinating our crops but they outcompete the wild bees drastically. Couple that with habitat loss, use of excessive amounts of pesticides etc. we have ourselves a nice insect crisis that's only gonna get worse.
Beetle Sex Hotel sounds like a good theme for more CPBBD merch
Beetle Orgy Sugary Shelter. BOSS.
Imma steal that thank u
I was thinking I could name my new swingers club “Prickly Pear Blossom.”
Sounds like band name too
Or “fuck the honey bee’s”
What pollinates Peyote -> I don't know but whatever it is is doing great work.
it is getting quite dry here in SW New Mexico too...at the moment the native wild flowers are pretty amazing and I am excited for the barrel, cholla and prickly pear to boom. Sure wish we had Peyote here, I would love to see them growing wild. I love seeing the native leaf cutter bees and the huge bumbles too. Hoping for a good monsoon season!
Holy crap! Those beetles look like they're in a 1980s disco!!
Man, I live in the middle of a city in Brazil, Atlantic Forest climate, about 1800 to 2000 mm/year of precipitation (of course they don’t get all That a water ). And peyotes produces fruits. In fact I have two generations of peyotes in my house now. And I never saw any pollnator.
Very cool. Just noticed for the first time onw of mine is going to bloom. They're self pollinators so no worries.
Gymnosperms have pollinated for millions of years with wind. It could be that too, especially is they're close to each other.
Gnats?
I remember what don Juan said about "mescalito"
Joey explains this in the video. Unlike a lot of cacti, L. williamsii can self-pollinate, but of course benefits from x-pollination and will typically produce more seeds of so. Among cultivated l. williamsii some may be self-sterile or produce nonviable seed due to inbreeding factors Wheras Opuntia prickly-pears tend be self-sterile. Because they're small, and may only produce 1-3 flowers per year, often none, self pollution allows them to have some seed output.
Northern Peyote are self fertile. They don't need pollinators to produce fruits.
A torch was lite centuries ago when man began inquiring with more methodology than pure curiosity into natures wonders. You my good man are fighting the good fight to aid in keeping that torch burning bright. Your affinity for knowledge and plants is inspiring and I respect and thank you for doing what you do. Cheers my good man 🍻
Hey Tony.
Reminds me of my own Peyote flowering and producing seeds way back when I was still living with my parents.
Note, I had it right at the house wall with 100+ other cacteae and I managed to sprout them and get over 30 little ones developing.
But as I had no nursery for the young they didn't make it.
It even was a small miracle that they made it this far - IN GERMANY!
And today I have an Opuntia ruida at my window sill like the one with the dozens of gray beatles in the flower, but with golden glochids that look real nice and turn horrible if you dare to touch them - my neighbours kids did once, and they cried for days.
Tom 😎
Sounds like those beetles have life pretty well figured out.
Better than me that's for sure
Love the bumbles. I’ve never seen ANYTHING draw pollinators like poppies. They go nuts for them for the entire WEEK they have pedals,lol.
FINALLY!! I have been saying fuck the honey bees for years!!
Facts man. Nobody gets it tho
About dam time get the word out.
my response to T 1:03 Daddy Chill! ... jokes aside yes honey bees are getting all the attention and the campaign can be lacking of information regarding other important pollinators, BUT, i wouldn't know about the problem if it wasn't for that same campaign. so maybe don't hate on it and see it as a possible introduction to people educating themselves to the pollination problem we have.
@@anactualmechanic2058Different insects have differently shaped probosci etc and feed on / pollinate different flowers. The easiest way I've found to grow the plants that certain species do or don't use is to simply keep an eye out for which ones go for which flowers when I'm out and about enjoying nature. Then all you have to do is go back to the plants you want and collect some seeds when they're ready.
It may take a little time, but it gives you a good reason to go to nice places and in a year or 2 you'll have the beginnings of a collection of plants that benefits exactly the insects you'd like to help most.
@@anactualmechanic2058provide proper habitat if you can
If the bees are hybridized the the East African subspecies, you need to be careful round them (from the notes I guess you found that out already). Worst case scenario is they can kill you. (I have a friend who used to keep bees near his place, and one day, for no known reason, they just went beserk, swarmed, and stung everything they could. In this case they killed his neighbour's dog. That was nearly followed by his neighbour killing him. And this kind of thing is not uncommon. I've heard of several other cases of "bees running amok". It's not swarming. When they swarm they look dangerous, but are pretty harmless. It's not always caused by the hive being disturbed. Something happens that tips the balance that puts them in full attack mode, and then all hell breaks loose. They'll chase you a very long way, for starters.)
A not much better scenario is that they can make you allergic, so next time you get stung, if you can't get an adrenaline shot quickly, you die. This happened to my brothers. Bees somewhere on the farm went crazy for some reason, and he got about 20 stings. Before that, bee stings had never been a problem, but now if he gets a sting it's potentially deadly.)
My little paint brush with the really soft bristles does
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Great video Joey! The witte museum in San Antonio has a pair of Native sandals (and other items) made from lechuguilla fibers. Cave finds from trans-pecos region.
We have a couple native bees in Vermont that are shiny green and another that's a blueish color and it's my MISSION to see one in my yard.
What a brilliant channel. No waffle, and great segways into other subjects. Subscribed.
Love those flowering peyotes. They are really something to see.
Very interesting - I've been propogating williamsii in a shitty little apartment in the north of england for about 15 years now and I've never seen a single pollinator on them. Wish I had, because it would save me a load of effort - I guess I need to get some beetle housemates.
that's what i visualize when i hear "summer's cauldron" by xtc
Thanks for the bees Tone, they look nice
Would love to see you out in the Chisos Basin. That place is an awesome convergence of geology and botany since it's up above the desert floor. Need more West Texas content!
I love photosynthetic stems so much
Hey Tony I'm a groundskeeper up here by the lava river cave in bellemont. What natives can I push on Management. We got a lot of dryscape and we're up at 7k fas. Help Please I wanna put this place on kill your lawn season 2!!
Hedeoma is one of my favorites but I just like how it smells. Of you're near flagstaff there's the Arboretum that also sells some native plants. Native Plant and Seed is also a great resource.
So I was just in Texas for the first time 3 weeks ago and took a cutting of a prickly pear and cholla.. those glockets or whatever are no joke... those little fuckers got everywhere. Places I don't understand... sick ass cacti tho. I'm stoked they just started rooting. Def gonna grow them out so I can go plant a cutting back in Texas ❤ if you take. You gotta give
Was going to hit the like button, but it on 420. 😆
really enjoyed this one, luv ya champ
I grew up in Odessa, there is a miniature forest between Odessa and Monahans. Have you heard of this? Also, caprock falloff might have some unusual stuff. Between Odessa and Crane. 🆒. Love all of your videos. 😎. 🆒💨 to you.
I also grew up in Odessa! Haven't seen the dunes and tiny oaks in such a LONG time!!!
I had no idea that insects sleep. I mean makes sense thinking about it, but for some reason I just assumed they didn't have the time since they live such short lives. But that's only in comparison to ours I suppose
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Macrotera is a great find. The males are polymorphic and they will bet-hedge each year, where only half the brood will emerge annually. They've gotta be my fav bees I see in Tucson, but the ones in Texas are arguably cooler.
I love hearing about the native bees, I didn't know about your natives before you mentioned them recently, I'm a huge fan of ours in Oz, the way some plants have evolved to rely on vibration at the frequency the bees create, to release the pollen, to me is ingenious, but also detrimental to their survival.
Having specialized plant-pollinator relationships is an advantage because it provides much fewer opportunities for viral or fungal pathogens to hitchhike around, especially from other unrelated species(see: smallpox). Yes, plants have sexually transmitted diseases too. If course there are obvious drawbacks. An example of this are Yuccas which usually have a single species of moth which pollinate them. If you plant a yucca well outside it's normal population range, yucca moths aren't big fliers, it won't produce any fruit or seeds.
@@TSorovanMHael yeah 1 of the issues they faced with some Australian food plants, is not having the insects etc or just not knowing what pollinates them, they fruit well in nature, but commercially fail (not that that's completely a bad thing)
@@siryogiwan I find that kind of shit to be fascinating.
~6:17 - that moment made my day!
Great close-up at 8:34. It looks like the peyote flower is dichogamous based on the expanded stigma loves but I can't see whether the stamens have collapsed or are getting ready to expand and dehisce. Joey, are the flowers protogynous or protandrous? It would be useful to find out how long the female phase lasets versus the male phase.
> are the flowers protogynous or protandrous?
Curious too. Visually (without magnification) it seems the stamens unfurl a little more on 2nd day. At first they're pointing inward and even downwards.
edit: Timestamp appears to be later in day 1. Bottom left is how they'd appear at first, bent over like that. 2nd day they'd be more upright and separated from each other.
Can’t forget the ants
The peyote at 3:30ish has dorymyrmex collecting nectar
A large one on the peyote flower at 9:00
when they say "save the pollinators" they aren't talking about European honey bees. its a lot more complex than that.
You should check out the Dasylirion for the Thrincopyge genera. A beautiful Buprestidae that feeds at the base of the plants. There’s 2 species that are much more beautiful than the Acmeaodera.
Haha i had those beetles in my Mammillaria flowers, they love getting dirty with pollen, drunk on nectar i imagine
Bill Burr does botany. Great day out there, nice plants and pollinators.
That looks really similar to the fucking cucumber beetles that destroy my crops in AZ. Same thing?
Thank you for the native bees and allies and shoutout!!!
Flowers, insects, rocks close up -along with commentary nice 🌼🪲🗿
Hey now I love all pollinators even the ones that polinate blueberries. I love leaf cutters the most though.
really high moths
Oh Tony.......You guys are awesome Big time....Tony and crew presidents.
Great close-ups!!
Hi Joey,
This video is interesting, I thought solitary bees pollinated peyote! I was surprised that small beatles help with this task.
Question Joey. I've heard that the saguaros are boiling and collapsing from the climate change. Is this true? And will the smaller cacti fare better through this planetary wreck stupid squares have brought to the planet?
I love the work you are doing!
Have you considered going to private properties naming and tagging the different species there for a fee? Many may like this. The red blooded type like us.
I like honey, honestly we need to find a way to keep both alive.
Let them £uc|< off from turf of the solitary bees but that’s it.
Keeping bees with a smile by Feodor Lazutin talks about natural beekeeping and why trapping feral honeybees is important to keep healthy hives
Let them luclc?
I'm with you re: honeybees. Fill the yard with eups and you'll have tons of cool bees
Bees and Ants and Beetles and Flies and sometimes Moths too! 👍
One of the best channels on RUclips! 👍👍
I was thinking a lot of his quotable ramblings would make great album titles or band names
Bombous is what we have in the north so much cooler
I ran to grab your book and I'm a little bummed feck the honey bees isn't in there.. I need it as a sticker 😁
Gotta throw a comment. Love your attention to detail. 🎉
As a drunk in a urinal, I loved this vid. Bees Knees!
Gee, i wonder what euphorbia antisyphilitica was named for....
Fully sidetracked by Euphorbia _antisyphilitica._ Exactly what were they doing with this poor plant, and why did they think it worked?
Hey I found a few of these beetles passed out in pirckly pear flowers last weekend! Neat
Upstate NY I am. Did the native Americans realy use peyote in their ceremonies?
Yes they do in the present as in tje past. L. williamsii is considered sacred by many mative nations such as the Diné(Navajo), the Mashgaléńde(Mescalero Apache) or, Wixáritari (HuicholI) to name just a few. It is, and was typically used in religious ceremonies and also medicinally to treat mental ailments. For example the Huichol pantheon contains a deity who is the personification of the peyote. These days most native tribes cultivate it to the extent that they use it for religious ceremonies, rather than harvesting it wild. Mr Santore has another video where he interviews a peyote grower. It was well known and highly respected by most native groups in the area where it grows. Native people were known to traditionally collect the fruits and scatter the seeds. The main threat aside from suburbaniztion is poaching by people looking to make a quick buck who simply pry up and snatch as many as they can find rather than judiciously, harvesting offshoots from older central plants and helping to spread seeds.
Does the euphorbia antisyphilitica contain a chemical to fight syphilis- would be a convenient name if it did
I don't expect that it would be able to treat systemic effects of Syphilis once it had become entrenched. I believe the latex sap was used historically to treat any number of skin lesions including those found in Pinta, Yaws, and Eurasian Syphilis. Those diseases are all caused by various strains of Treponema pallidum bacteria. The sap of E. antisyphillitica seems to be effective at killing a range of bacteria in a petri dish while being mostly nontoxic to humans unlike some other Euphorbias. Although the same can be said of a lot of plants. The secondary chemistry of E. antisyphillitica isn't well researched. So, maybe it does something, maybe it doesn't. Although I still wouldn't recommend taking a bunch of candelaria internally. Probably would be OK if you rubbed it on your ass rash.
I love your videos and your salty language!
I’d love another vid of you yelling about golf courses. Fuckin hate golf courses especially here in New Mexico
I'm...sorry??
😳 Bees that are solitary? That don't make hives? 🤯
I am all ears. Literally, I have transformed into an example of body horror, I am now a human-shaped form comprised solely of ears 👂🏾👂🏾👂🏾
Ants get no credit even though they sometimes do a little bit of pollinating. And ants always drink responsibly.
Appropriate username for this comment
I have ants completely destroying an orange tree sooooo ummm
@@sunshinevalley0Theres something else wrong with the tree and they know it's been weakend.
If you can save the underlying problem with the tree, you won't have an ant problem.
damn, that bee got some chompers
I just got caught up watching your entire video backlog (the plant videos, that is) yesterday. Now I'm feenin for more mind-expanding, natural science-related content.
Any channels you personally follow/recommend? I saw somewhere that you follow a geologist/professor Nick Zentner, and I plan to check him out. Anyone else?
P.S. I bought all the books you recommended and a local flora and have identified all the plant species in my yard and I use iNaturalist on a regular basis to learn about more; and it's all your fault.
I haven't killed my lawn yet, but I've stopped adding foreign inputs to it and I use a human-powered reel mower (like Grandpa used to use). I also have a big section of my back yard that I only mow a quarter of once every 3 months. Fallopia scandens is gradually choking out the fescue there. Erigeron canadensis and Solanum emulans are also common in that area. A single Mirabilis nyctaginea and a single (?) Solidago canadensis have established themselves there. And I'm hoping that the heavily fruiting Persicaria pensylvanica, Amaranthus tuberculatus, Chenopodium berlandieri, and Panicum dichotomiflorum plants that I drug through that area last year will result in them establishing themselves there this year.
Pbs eons
Mowing, is unfortunately, but perhaps not surprising bad for the grass and for the soil as well. It causes plants to develop shallow roots and to greedily suck up nutrients out of the soil due to being stressed. Causes the soil to become compacted, so you have to "aerate" it. Whereas if you don't mow it, it feeds more sugars to fungal symbionts and grows roots twice as deep. Mowing makes the grass less tolerant of dryness, and, go figure, you have to keep fertilizing it. Otherwise it gets sickly and succumbs to insects and pathogenic bacteria. But, just ask the companies making a killing selling grass fertilizer. Better mow it once a week, you wouldn't want it to look "shaggy" would you? Broadcasting fertilizer is also generally bad for the environment because some of it runs off into the watershed and groundwater.
I've planted a bunch of clover in my lawn and only mow it once a year. I plan to keep reseeding the clover until it takes over. I want to turn it into a wildflower meadow over the next few years. Looks wild with a lot of Taraxacum popping up, which is also good for pollinators and good for fungal diversity. Fuck my neighbors. Clover needs less water, almost no fertilizer. It grows deeper roots and doesn't need pesticides. I just top dress it with composted green waste in the fall.
is that the green lynx spider?
Yes.
All these vids are convincing me to visit the family in Texas.
Speaking of bees are there any dangers you encounter doing your thing? Killer bees or even the dreaded Japanese hornet.
Got a typo in the video title sir..
@@highpoweredsupernova Or idiots would try to dig them up.
Pollinaters are awesome but What about the poopers? Seed transporters and stuff haha
I would be curious what role of mosquitoes actually play in the ecosystem. there's a lot of talk about genetically modifying mosquito populations, one video I saw about it mentions that there's certain flowers that rely on mosquitoes, so I wonder how much damage that's going to do what's not going to get pollinated if they go through with this idea, and also how many things in the ecosystem rely on mosquito larvae as food. mostly they were focused on the breed of mosquito that goes for humans and carries human affecting diseases. (and of course I'm saying this as somebody who absolutely hates mosquitoes, I'm just worried about the consequences that we're not thinking of, which is a common side effect of human pest Control history.
My lophs have been flowering, but i didnt see any fruits
Well yesterday i caught a snail 🐌 eating them, they dont fuck with tbe cactus but they do eat the fruits
Its been raining a lot lately in Austin so usually the snails dont bother me
I kept 3 plants for about 2 years and they never stopped blooming.
The greatest advice for OW is to die less. Taking unnecessary damage and drying can tip the team fight!
Very cool all round
Honey bees = White Man's Flies
Do you have any videos on carnivorous plants?
Yes he does, couple years back
You will see Sarracenia and I think Urticularia in the videos where he visited the northern Gulf Coast in FL.
you are awesome best channel ever
I'm in East Texas bro
Coyote Ridge Quitman Texas
Come see the farm and let's talk about cherry trees mushrooms and everything else
Bring some peyote
Northern forms are self-fertile. Others not so much.
Have seen fruit void of seeds. Figure they'll put it out there for the ants regardless occasionally.
How does the specific name "antisyphylitica" just breeze through without comment?
Candelaria was used as a traditional remedy for syphilis, back before antibiotics were known about. Not sure how well it actually worked, probably not that well. I assume it gave you some serious diarrhea on top of being a siphilitic wreck.
Don Juan knows!
Awesome
How do they know to flower at the same time?
Gorgeous (and sexy).
Hadn't thought about the pollinator-plant-warming vicious cycle before. More heat -> fewer pollinating hours, fewer seeds + less diversity, fewer calories for pollinators... ugh. And less diversity means population slower to adapt.
Where did I leave my heat-shock proteins?
Anti-syphilitica it was used as a treatment for syphilis??
Euphorbia sap tends to burn. People probably guessed that made it medicinal. However, I don't recommend rubbing poison into your genitals, other things being equal.
Thank you for saying fuck the European Honey Bees! I hate narcissistic conservation that is based around helping a species because it benefits us, least of all when it's not even native, when there are so many wild bees that need protection that are actually part of the natural ecosystem. Sadly most people are only concerned about helping the Earth and the ecosystem if it protects or enhances human life....which I guess is why many NGOs try to focus on ways to mingle to the two, because they know most people are too selfish to actually care about something that doesn't directly benefit them., especially if you live in a third world country where biodiversity loss is most prevalent.
beetles are cool thanks sir
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interesting