Happy Wednesday my friend,

Today we’re talking seadragons, constipation, and the truly mind-boggling intelligence of bees. Hope you learn something and share our newsletter with a friend this week. ❤️

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🐿️ CREATURE FEATURE 🐿️

The Leafy Seadragon

The leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques) wears an outfit of leaf-like appendages that break up its outline and allow it to vanish among kelp and seagrass as camouflage. It’s mostly found along the temperate coasts of southern Australia where it drifts more than it swims, mimicking the sway of seaweed while feeding on tiny crustaceans like mysid “sea fleas.”

Its family life is just as wild. After courtship, the female transfers a cluster of bright pink eggs to a specialized patch under the male’s tail. He protects them for about a month until miniature seadragons pop out, fully formed and on their own. Leafies are a protected species, so healthy kelp forests and clean water are key to their survival. For a deeper look, check out this gorgeous FOOTAGE.

🚀 NASA’s Constipation Remedy

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🍎 NUTRITION 101 🍎

BAICALIN: A flavonoid extracted from the roots of Scutellaria baicalensis (Chinese skullcap), prized in traditional medicine for its calming, anti-inflammatory, and liver-supporting effects. It’s also being studied for its potential to protect the brain and modulate immune function. Learn more of its sources and therapeutic uses HERE.

🌎 DEEP DIVE 🌎

The Bee Hive Intelligence, Survival, and What We Owe Them

Lift the lid of a honeybee hive and it hums with ancient intelligence. The cooperation amongst thousands of individuals working as one superorganism. And yet, most of us have little understanding of what really goes on in there.

Bees are far more complex than just being “busy”. They have precise communication and social roles within their global ecological importance. Bees are not merely pollinators, and the more we learn, the more we realize how much is at stake in protecting them.

🧠 The Hive Mind: Intelligence, Roles, and Queen Protection

A typical honeybee hive is made up of three main jobs:

• Workers (all female): They clean, feed larvae, build wax combs, forage, and defend the hive.

• Drones (male): Their sole purpose is to mate with a queen.

• The Queen: She lays up to 2k eggs a day and emits pheromones to maintain social order.

Worker bees protect the queen, feeding her, cleaning her, and even forming a protective ball of body heat around her in cold conditions.

Bees exhibit impressive cognitive skills and abilities. Recent studies have shown that they can learn the waggle dance socially, recognize faces, count up to four, and possibly even experience emotion-like states. For such tiny creatures, their brains demonstrate extraordinary problem-solving skills.

💃 What Is “The Waggle Dance”? How Bees Share Maps

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