Ep.88 Native pollinator flower preferences - Ben Courtice (ecologist, botanist, bush regenerator)

Ben Courtice is back to talk about pollinator preferences for flowers, with a focus on native insect pollinators. He's an ecologist, botanist and bush regenerator that's done his honours research on the button wrinklewort, an endemic aster in Victoria, and was trying to figure out why they were declining. We discuss floral constancy, density, shape, and a range of other factors that play into successful pollination.

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Ben's article on native pollinators and flower preferences:
Read Ben's book review of Silent Earth: Averting The Insect Apocalypse, by Dave Goulson: https://climateandcapitalism.com/2022/01/26/insect-apocalypse/
David Harvey on YouTube (Class 01 Reading Marx's Capital Vol I): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBazR59SZXk
John Bellamy Foster on YouTube (The Return of the Dialectics of Nature): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_I2T5Lipg
David Grayber on YouTube (On Bullsh*t Jobs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kikzjTfos0s
Noam Chomsky on YouTube (Ecology, Ethics, Anarchism): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3uDEXyWfRc

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