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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...e-california-hawaii-euclyptus-trees/102760264
[Edit] Just to put in to perspective, that story was written for Aussies that already understand, many people from the rest of the world don't. Our trees have evolved with fire as a regular seasonal occurrence. Fire doesn't kill them, it rejeuvenates them. Many of them actually require fire as part of their breeding cycle and won't flower until after they have been burnt. These trees deliberately promote and attract fire as a necessary part of their survival.

South Africa has quite a few similar plants including their national flower, the Protea.
 
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Check out the subtitles on this white noise video I have playing. :laughing:

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You can listen to it here, if you are interested:

 
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...e-california-hawaii-euclyptus-trees/102760264
[Edit] Just to put in to perspective, that story was written for Aussies that already understand, many people from the rest of the world don't. Our trees have evolved with fire as a regular seasonal occurrence. Fire doesn't kill them, it rejeuvenates them. Many of them actually require fire as part of their breeding cycle and won't flower until after they have been burnt. These trees deliberately promote and attract fire as a necessary part of their survival.

South Africa has quite a few similar plants including their national flower, the Protea.
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There was an Aussie fire chief visiting California, and he was appalled at all the Eucalyptus bark laying around in Oakland. Months later, large neighbourhoods burned. One section was saved by two volunteers, one with experience on a fruit farm but no papers who had to sneak past the Police to help.
 
Shevek said:
There was an Aussie fire chief visiting California, and he was appalled at all the Eucalyptus bark laying around in Oakland. Months later, large neighbourhoods burned. One section was saved by two volunteers, one with experience on a fruit farm but no papers who had to sneak past the Police to help.
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The eucalyptus oil seems to burn at a very high temperature, once it gets going fire spreads very easily.

Our government's scientific body, the CSIRO, recommends that in order to maintain biodiversity in native bush it needs to be burnt in it's entirety every 2 to 5 years. Doing this keeps the levels of underbrush and detritus down too. Without much underbrush and detritus we get what is known as a cool burn, fire passes through touching everything but not causing much harm.

Our last serious bushfires were mostly caused by a bunch of idiots that think they're greenies preventing the parks and wildlife people from doing controlled burns for a few years. Once too much dead stuff collects under the trees the fire burns too hot, then you get a canopy fire and fire storms. That destroys everything.

Save the forests, bulldoze a greenie.

It does give me a small sense of national pride when 6 weeks after a fire all the native trees are green again and bursting in to flower but all the cheap European imports like pine trees are dead forever.
 
Forest Cat said:
This is a "panda ant". And panda ants are not pandas or ants, they are wingless wasps. So that's a little weird.
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We've got a few species of flightless bees here, I'll have to go through my photos later, I can't find them on the net. They look like ants at first until you notice the funny back legs for collecting pollen. The ones I've got pictures of somewhere are black with two bright blue stripes across the abdomen.
 
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