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The Anole in the Hole

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By Neil Losin
| anoleannals.org
A male Anolis cristatellus emerging from an abandoned woodpecker hole. Greetings, anole lovers! I wanted to share some recent observations from my Miami backyard. I’ve got a male Anolis cristatellus who’s made his home in an abandoned woodpecker cavity. A Red-bellied Woodpecker excavating a nest cavity in a royal palm tree. He started using the cavity a few months ago, but the story begins earlier than that.
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What's best for bees? Radio tracking bumblebee foraging to determine the best bee environments

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By Neil Losin, Jeremy Hemberger, Daniel Imhoff, Kelly Maly, Katie Schultz
| experiment.com
Bees are essential in the production of over 30% of the economically important crops worldwide. In other words, about 1 in 3 bites of food we take depends on bees! Despite their importance, human activity such as agricultural expansion and intensification threaten bees, especially wild, naturally occurring species (such as bumblebees), that provide pollination to crops free of charge across the US.
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The Birth of Biodiversity

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By Neil Losin
| National Geographic Verified
If you’ve been reading the news this week, you know that we’ve just been starkly reminded that the Earth is in the midst of a mass extinction – a biodiversity crisis like nothing it has experienced in 65 million years. Yet while species disappear at an unprecedented rate, new species are also being born all around us, and this fascinating process – speciation – is continuing just as it has been for eons. But exactly how does one species become two? This is one of the biggest questions in biology.
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