Fuel Your Trek: The Best Foods for Walking Long Distances

Whether you are training for a through-hike, a charity walk, or a weekend trek, your nutrition is the engine that keeps you moving. Unlike high-intensity sprinting, long-distance walking is an endurance game that relies on a steady burn of energy rather than quick bursts.   To avoid the dreaded "bonk" (hitting a wall of exhaustion),

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From wartime messages to love letters, pigeons have carried our mail for centuries. A new study suggests the secret to how they find their way might be hiding in an unexpected place: the liver.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/pigeon-fly-navigation-science-discovery-liver-9.7224081?cmp=rss
Price of fresh produce likely to rise on P.E.I. due to fuel price surge from Iran war
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-fuel-price-surge-iran-war-rising-food-costs-9.7135842?cmp=rss

The #bug #Lygus #pratensis (#Miridae) is distributed throughout #Eurasia, Africa and North America. In Central Europe they have 1 annual #generation. #Adults and nymphs feed on nectar and various plants in the #herbaceouslayer and prefer warm #habitats. It can cover #longdistances by #flying. According to Y. Zheng et al. (2024), these #flights depend on #temperature and relative #humidity.

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Y. Zheng et al. (2024)
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15100762

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