Moa

“I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.”
― W.D. Snodgrass

“Since the grasses are being parasitised, they grow less, leaving more room for other flowering plants. Pywell demonstrated that sowing rattle seed into an English meadow significantly boosted the diversity of flowers present by suppressing growth of grasses.”
― Dave Goulson, A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees

“The key to helping our rarer species to thrive is probably simply to add more flower patches to the landscape, making it a little easier for them to find food and keep their nests well provisioned.”
― Dave Goulson, A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees

“This simple fact explains an awful lot about the biology and conservation of bumblebees. They have to eat almost continually to keep warm; a bumblebee with a full stomach is only ever about forty minutes from starvation. If a bumblebee runs out of energy, she cannot fly, and if she cannot fly, she cannot get to flowers to get more food, so she is doomed”
― Dave Goulson, A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees