Pas op voor paddestoelengidsen "geschreven" door AI-chatbots. Blijkbaar te koop op Amazon.

"Leon Frey, a foraging guide and field mycologist at Cornwall-based Family Foraging Kitchen, which organises foraging field trips, said the samples he had seen contained serious flaws such as referring to “smell and taste” as an identifying feature. “This seems to encourage tasting as a method of identification. This should absolutely not be the case,” he said."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai

The earthworms in North America are invaders. There used to be native earthworms, but they were wiped out by glaciers around 10,000 years ago and all the current worms arrived accidentally (via humans) from Europe and Asia in the past few centuries.

https://ecosystemsontheedge.org/earthworm-invaders/

And now global warming is causing “global worming”, as worms spread northwards into a warmer Arctic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/climate/invasive-worms-arctic-environment.html

The consequences aren’t clear yet. But it’s a lot of change.

#climate #Earth #worms