Spider milkweed (Asclepias asperula); Image copyright: Amber Swanson
By Amina Sharma
In this week’s FL, get news about why fungi love sounds (no word yet on whether they would call themselves Swifties); how ants have been farming for about 66 million years, give or take; the plan to save endangered wildflowers, the radical act of gardening, and more.
- Is there a reason why Los Angeles doesn’t plant more native street trees? (Los Angeles Times)
- Sound makes microscopic fungi grow—good news for our understanding of forests and reefs. Complex soundscapes (i.e., not heavy machinery) lead to a thriving environment. (New York Times)
- Gardening can be a radical activity. (Gardenista)
- Can these endangered California wildflowers make it back from the brink of extinction? (Bay Nature)
- Bow down to ants, possibly the Earth’s first farmers. (Smithsonian Magazine)
- The Room to Roam Act may give California’s wildlife a chance to survive and thrive. (Los Angeles Times)
- Come for the Chicago accent, stay for the Streptanthus vernalis. (Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t)
- Incredible video of more than 65 humpback whales lunge-feeding off the California coast. (Sacramento Bee)
- Reducing forest fragmentation is just one benefit of the newly protected Año Nuevo Vista. (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- Funny of the day
