Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Ecosystem Services... sounds awfully like an Economical Job!  Thank goodness it’s not an ecological gig: Ecosystem Services are the ecological contributions organisms make to the smooth running of our planet.  Invertebrates, spiders, birds, trees, shrubs, fungi, whales, and insects, etc, do a variety of jobs that help us and all other creatures we share this Earth with. And we often forget about this!  Pollination   Without it, many of our plants, shrubs and trees won’t be able to reproduce.  A third of everything you eat has had the services of a Honeybee (or Bumblebee) involved! Others such as hoverflies, native bees (28 species!), thrips, beetles, birds, and heaps of flies love to visit the flowers – we often seem to forget about these beautiful green flies, known as dung-flies!  Photo / Getty Images  Dolomedes Minor – The Clever Nursery Web Spider  An endemic Spider Species that occurs only in New Zealand and are very clever in many ways.  In late spring, the