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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at be Good morning, Roud Climb Past.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Francesco. How are you very good?

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Speaker 3: And before we start, I must say a very big

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Speaker 3: thank you to you and King Seeds for my wildflowers.

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Speaker 3: Bend because blind because when I think when I spent

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Speaker 3: you a couple of weeks ago, you were at King Seeds, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: said do you know anything? I checkly said Ashley, yeh,

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Speaker 3: I do, and please you send them to me. So

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Speaker 3: thank you both.

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Speaker 2: These people. Yeah, they're wonderful people. They help and hopefully

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Speaker 2: yeah you know, yeah, good, good, good going to do.

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Speaker 2: This is what we do. So I work with these

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Speaker 2: things with your seeds at schools to get bumble bees attracted.

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Speaker 2: There's something I talked about to check a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks ago last week. I can't even remember. And these

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Speaker 2: people are always helping out schools and education and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that, projects like that, and I think it's wonderful.

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Speaker 3: I did get a little carried away because it was

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Speaker 3: a really large bag. So we're going to I've got

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Speaker 3: to warn the gardener of the family. My partner. Bentually

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Speaker 3: got to say to him, Hey, dude, see ahole of

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Speaker 3: the things popping up here and there and there. Don't

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Speaker 3: just think mountaining their weeds. Just give them some time,

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Speaker 3: because I've just scattered this stuff everywhere. But Christmas is

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Speaker 3: a really good time to be looking around our gardens.

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Speaker 3: And I am quite delighted by the photos of the

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Speaker 3: little owls that you sent me.

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Speaker 2: It's funny that a lot of people with pet wolf

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Speaker 2: camp on Sunday. We quite often talk about it and

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Speaker 2: about the nest boxes, and people are really wanting to

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Speaker 2: do these things. So what we've done is see in

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Speaker 2: christ is we've got a little owl, which is a

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Speaker 2: species that comes from Europe. I know it well, from

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Speaker 2: the Netherlands, where it's called the stain owl, the stone owl,

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Speaker 2: if you like, a tiny thing. And here and there

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Speaker 2: in the South Island you see them even during the

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Speaker 2: day because they sit on fences sometimes watching the traffic

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Speaker 2: go by. But anyway, that's beside them. Actually, by the way,

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Speaker 2: we bended fourteen yesterday. Oh wow, that's at a little

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Speaker 2: hospital at willow Bank. Anyway. But so these guys are

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Speaker 2: all over the place. We've got them breeding at them

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Speaker 2: and some of the young ready to fledge. Others still

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Speaker 2: need a band around it. So I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 2: that and I usually take my grandson with me, who

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Speaker 2: was really keen to be part of that gig. He

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Speaker 2: loves that stuff. Can you imagine those a twelve year

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Speaker 2: old holding an owl? You know that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna Yeah, it's just in the South Island.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that one is. But we of course you've got

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Speaker 2: Ruru and you've got Bann House as well up in

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Speaker 2: the North. So but anyway, that's one of the things

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Speaker 2: I'm going to do this this this week actually at

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Speaker 2: Christmas time. Good there you go, one example that you.

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Speaker 3: Ah, you do it. There was some quite heavy snoring

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Speaker 3: going on in our house early on was a Friday morning,

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Speaker 3: at about and I was wide awake and I sort

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Speaker 3: of got thought, I'm going to get up and walk

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Speaker 3: around the house. Cut ups, there's not and sort of

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Speaker 3: the night sky caught my attention and I went outside.

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Speaker 3: It was about three am or something and gosh, really,

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Speaker 3: it's a different world, isn't it, Because normally we were

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Speaker 3: tacked up in bed and sell asleep and I just

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Speaker 3: start happy for ages, looking at stars and listening to

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Speaker 3: the sounds. And you've also got a suggestion about going

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Speaker 3: out at night with a torch in the garden, and

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Speaker 3: if you can use UV light and you just see

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Speaker 3: the world in a whole different way.

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Speaker 2: That's it. So insects see everything through U spectrums. And

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Speaker 2: if you look at your favorite flowers and plants, you'll

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Speaker 2: see that they are not the color you think they are.

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Speaker 2: They are either blue or orange or yellow, whereas normally

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Speaker 2: they're white, you know, during the day. This is what

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Speaker 2: I mean. So I think this is something to do

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Speaker 2: with attracting the right pollinators in the night, so that

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Speaker 2: pollination still occurs in the night. So you don't know

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Speaker 2: that until you start mucking around with the UV torch.

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Speaker 2: I always say, best Christmas present ever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good idea. What else can you say

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Speaker 3: with this torch?

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Speaker 2: Oh likeens yellow lines suddenly turning orange under that light?

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Speaker 2: You see white, As I said, white flowers do purple.

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Speaker 2: Purple blue is the color they see the best pollinators

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Speaker 2: at night. So you get moths there, you get all

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Speaker 2: sorts of things, and there's stuff I never see sometimes,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's totally unexpected. But the best thing that

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Speaker 2: I see at night is the pseudo scorpion. We have

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Speaker 2: scorpions in New Zealand that are tiny, and you find

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Speaker 2: them sitting on burdle and things like that. But you

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Speaker 2: see them also hanging onto the legs of flies, because

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Speaker 2: that's how they transport themselves. The fly is the.

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Speaker 3: Uber Merry Christmas Road.

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