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Berly McCoy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
306 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

Yeah. I have, I don't know, a few dozen, but I have realized that learning to identify and name and even just notice the life forms around me is one of the best ways to deepen your relationship to land and to nature. Anna says you can also look up a bird count or some other bio blitz in your area. That's what they call like these nature searches.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

One of the biggest ones is the City Nature Challenge. Oh, what's that? It's basically a four-day sprint around Earth Day. Cities who enroll are tasked with identifying as many of a certain type of species as possible.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

One of the biggest ones is the City Nature Challenge. Oh, what's that? It's basically a four-day sprint around Earth Day. Cities who enroll are tasked with identifying as many of a certain type of species as possible.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

One of the biggest ones is the City Nature Challenge. Oh, what's that? It's basically a four-day sprint around Earth Day. Cities who enroll are tasked with identifying as many of a certain type of species as possible.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

So did that owl ever show up? Never showed. Gave us the cold shoulder. But at this point in the hike, owl cameo didn't really matter. I mean, over the course of the night, just watching these grown adults act more and more like kids was so amazing. Like sticking their fingers in dirt. Rolling over wet logs, jumping and shrieking when a tiny crustacean like an isopod appears. I love it.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

So did that owl ever show up? Never showed. Gave us the cold shoulder. But at this point in the hike, owl cameo didn't really matter. I mean, over the course of the night, just watching these grown adults act more and more like kids was so amazing. Like sticking their fingers in dirt. Rolling over wet logs, jumping and shrieking when a tiny crustacean like an isopod appears. I love it.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

So did that owl ever show up? Never showed. Gave us the cold shoulder. But at this point in the hike, owl cameo didn't really matter. I mean, over the course of the night, just watching these grown adults act more and more like kids was so amazing. Like sticking their fingers in dirt. Rolling over wet logs, jumping and shrieking when a tiny crustacean like an isopod appears. I love it.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

Oh no, it's like a little shrimp. Or a tiny fungi shaped like a fan with an incredible secret.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

Oh no, it's like a little shrimp. Or a tiny fungi shaped like a fan with an incredible secret.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

Oh no, it's like a little shrimp. Or a tiny fungi shaped like a fan with an incredible secret.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

Twenty-seven?

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

Twenty-seven?

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

Twenty-seven?

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

go so much higher than you think is possible for how many sexes an organism can have I mean 27 was the highest you know like what hundreds 20,000 this fungi has 20,000 different sexes amazing it's very successful very abundant and found almost everywhere take a look and then there were life forms that were moving quite actively like we got salamander yeah

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

go so much higher than you think is possible for how many sexes an organism can have I mean 27 was the highest you know like what hundreds 20,000 this fungi has 20,000 different sexes amazing it's very successful very abundant and found almost everywhere take a look and then there were life forms that were moving quite actively like we got salamander yeah

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

go so much higher than you think is possible for how many sexes an organism can have I mean 27 was the highest you know like what hundreds 20,000 this fungi has 20,000 different sexes amazing it's very successful very abundant and found almost everywhere take a look and then there were life forms that were moving quite actively like we got salamander yeah

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

So I got low, you know, army crawling and peering through everyone's legs, hovering beneath this like chaotic cloud of science facts. Yeah, it's like orange and black and slithering. It looks kind of like a snake.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

So I got low, you know, army crawling and peering through everyone's legs, hovering beneath this like chaotic cloud of science facts. Yeah, it's like orange and black and slithering. It looks kind of like a snake.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

So I got low, you know, army crawling and peering through everyone's legs, hovering beneath this like chaotic cloud of science facts. Yeah, it's like orange and black and slithering. It looks kind of like a snake.

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Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

Yeah.