1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,733 Speaker 1: from News Talks at be. 3 00:00:13,493 --> 00:00:16,173 Speaker 2: Rude climb past as our man in the garden. He's 4 00:00:16,173 --> 00:00:19,333 Speaker 2: with us this morning, killed the rude kyoda, Jackie. 5 00:00:19,373 --> 00:00:22,253 Speaker 3: I wasn't a garden. I wasn't a big garden this morning. 6 00:00:22,293 --> 00:00:24,413 Speaker 2: Oh then your place or somewhere else? 7 00:00:24,853 --> 00:00:29,253 Speaker 4: No, no farm, very good, okay, yeah, yeah yeah. We 8 00:00:29,293 --> 00:00:32,373 Speaker 4: were putting Eddie Edouard is my twelve year old friend son. 9 00:00:32,853 --> 00:00:35,853 Speaker 4: He suddenly got interested in doing some work with Harry, 10 00:00:36,053 --> 00:00:38,453 Speaker 4: so he decided to team up with me. We put 11 00:00:38,453 --> 00:00:40,733 Speaker 4: five trips down and this afternoon we're going to see 12 00:00:40,773 --> 00:00:41,373 Speaker 4: who got in. 13 00:00:41,733 --> 00:00:44,653 Speaker 2: Oh fantastic, Well can you catch something even in the 14 00:00:44,693 --> 00:00:46,533 Speaker 2: last even in the next couple of hours. 15 00:00:47,413 --> 00:00:49,373 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 16 00:00:49,373 --> 00:00:52,533 Speaker 4: We put We put all these these wonderful baits in, 17 00:00:52,813 --> 00:00:58,013 Speaker 4: like frozen ducks and frozen pigeons, and they chew on 18 00:00:58,053 --> 00:01:00,533 Speaker 4: them and basically they tripped, so we we didn't put 19 00:01:00,533 --> 00:01:02,573 Speaker 4: the ring around them their legs and all the sort 20 00:01:02,573 --> 00:01:03,093 Speaker 4: of nose. 21 00:01:03,333 --> 00:01:05,733 Speaker 2: He and he and he broke up before do you 22 00:01:05,773 --> 00:01:08,733 Speaker 2: say Harry like Harry hawks her are yes here? 23 00:01:09,053 --> 00:01:09,213 Speaker 3: Yeah? 24 00:01:09,293 --> 00:01:11,253 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, sorry. 25 00:01:11,653 --> 00:01:14,613 Speaker 4: And and he's big enough to to actually carry them 26 00:01:14,613 --> 00:01:17,653 Speaker 4: and weigh them. Now, so we've got this little spring balance. 27 00:01:18,133 --> 00:01:20,733 Speaker 4: And then from the from the amount of weight that 28 00:01:20,773 --> 00:01:22,973 Speaker 4: they put only tells me whether he thinks it's a 29 00:01:23,053 --> 00:01:25,973 Speaker 4: male or female, because the females are usually about the 30 00:01:26,053 --> 00:01:29,013 Speaker 4: kilo and the males are about six hunder grainsten. 31 00:01:29,093 --> 00:01:29,853 Speaker 1: Do they have talons? 32 00:01:29,853 --> 00:01:31,653 Speaker 2: And I can I scratch you out badly? 33 00:01:32,613 --> 00:01:34,853 Speaker 4: Well, the talons are very hard to get out of 34 00:01:34,893 --> 00:01:35,333 Speaker 4: your hands. 35 00:01:35,413 --> 00:01:38,813 Speaker 3: You use your teeth to get them out. Oh my god, 36 00:01:38,813 --> 00:01:42,413 Speaker 3: I'm not joking. They are that's serious stuff. So he 37 00:01:42,453 --> 00:01:45,253 Speaker 3: has learned, he learns how to hold them and yeah. 38 00:01:46,613 --> 00:01:47,173 Speaker 2: That kind of thing. 39 00:01:48,213 --> 00:01:52,093 Speaker 3: No, wow, man, hands, he used your hands. 40 00:01:52,173 --> 00:01:55,973 Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds like fun. That sounds amazing. 41 00:01:57,093 --> 00:02:00,173 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, these things go on. 42 00:02:00,253 --> 00:02:02,133 Speaker 4: These things, of course do a job on the planet 43 00:02:02,533 --> 00:02:06,253 Speaker 4: because they actually eat dead birds and things like that 44 00:02:06,413 --> 00:02:09,133 Speaker 4: they find. That's how we trap them. So when I 45 00:02:09,213 --> 00:02:11,973 Speaker 4: thought last week we talked about other things that you know, 46 00:02:12,053 --> 00:02:14,413 Speaker 4: and what the jobs they do on the planet, so 47 00:02:14,453 --> 00:02:16,173 Speaker 4: I thought I'd carry on a little bit. 48 00:02:16,133 --> 00:02:18,733 Speaker 3: Please done. Yeah right, yeah, yeah. 49 00:02:19,373 --> 00:02:22,173 Speaker 4: So for instance, and you'll see that the people that 50 00:02:22,213 --> 00:02:24,893 Speaker 4: you can see it on the website. Of course, crane flies, 51 00:02:25,773 --> 00:02:28,173 Speaker 4: you know, You know crane flies, don't you are, those 52 00:02:28,213 --> 00:02:30,293 Speaker 4: big deady long like flies. 53 00:02:29,893 --> 00:02:30,853 Speaker 3: That sit on the wall. 54 00:02:30,933 --> 00:02:34,893 Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, Well, the babies basically do an absolutely brilliant 55 00:02:34,933 --> 00:02:37,653 Speaker 4: job in your vegetable garden because they sit in the 56 00:02:37,693 --> 00:02:42,413 Speaker 4: soil and make holes and tunnels and they literally create 57 00:02:42,973 --> 00:02:45,493 Speaker 4: very fertile soil that way. 58 00:02:45,773 --> 00:02:49,333 Speaker 3: So that's what they do. It's absolutely wonderful. They clean, 59 00:02:49,733 --> 00:02:52,293 Speaker 3: They clean the soil and so on and so forth. 60 00:02:52,333 --> 00:02:53,693 Speaker 3: So that is exactly what they do. 61 00:02:54,653 --> 00:02:59,413 Speaker 4: And you ask anybody what do butterflies do and flies, 62 00:02:59,453 --> 00:03:03,853 Speaker 4: and of course they're pollinated. Yeah, they do nothing in 63 00:03:03,893 --> 00:03:06,973 Speaker 4: your garden but fertilize everything that flowers. 64 00:03:07,653 --> 00:03:10,933 Speaker 2: And where we were a few weeks ago, obviously that 65 00:03:11,053 --> 00:03:15,253 Speaker 2: the number of butterflies is just ridiculous. You know, they 66 00:03:15,253 --> 00:03:17,893 Speaker 2: have they have all these kind of butterfly sanctuaries and things. 67 00:03:17,893 --> 00:03:20,053 Speaker 2: But yeah, and presumably they're all doing the same thing. 68 00:03:20,853 --> 00:03:24,093 Speaker 4: They do, that's their job. Yeah, And guess what tukan 69 00:03:24,253 --> 00:03:27,173 Speaker 4: does the same sort of thing. It eats the fruits 70 00:03:27,213 --> 00:03:30,333 Speaker 4: of everything that has been fertilized and then they pop 71 00:03:30,413 --> 00:03:33,373 Speaker 4: out the seeds, so they are actually seed disperses. 72 00:03:33,893 --> 00:03:36,453 Speaker 2: Okay, you're right, are very good, so. 73 00:03:36,573 --> 00:03:38,173 Speaker 3: Are all these things going on there. 74 00:03:38,333 --> 00:03:40,893 Speaker 4: So there's parasitic wasps and I put some pictures in 75 00:03:40,893 --> 00:03:46,013 Speaker 4: this hall ones that lay eggs inside caterpillars, and those 76 00:03:46,013 --> 00:03:50,813 Speaker 4: eggs hatch inside those caterpillars into little wasps babies, if 77 00:03:50,853 --> 00:03:54,213 Speaker 4: you like, And they basically kill all the pests you 78 00:03:54,293 --> 00:03:55,533 Speaker 4: don't want the garden. 79 00:03:55,653 --> 00:03:57,813 Speaker 3: So you know, you can say what you like about them, 80 00:03:57,813 --> 00:04:01,053 Speaker 3: but they do a good job. Yeah, okay, yeah, nice 81 00:04:02,493 --> 00:04:03,573 Speaker 3: bun dung beetles. 82 00:04:03,773 --> 00:04:06,013 Speaker 2: Love a dung beetles, absolutely love a dunk beetle. 83 00:04:06,053 --> 00:04:08,413 Speaker 3: Thinks we've got they're lovely. 84 00:04:08,413 --> 00:04:10,573 Speaker 4: We've got about seven or eight species in New Zealand 85 00:04:10,573 --> 00:04:13,413 Speaker 4: now and dung beetle Innovation is looking after them. 86 00:04:13,813 --> 00:04:15,533 Speaker 3: These guys basically put. 87 00:04:15,413 --> 00:04:18,893 Speaker 4: Dun back into the soil by burying it deep down 88 00:04:19,373 --> 00:04:22,173 Speaker 4: and thereby making your garden quite or in this case 89 00:04:22,213 --> 00:04:24,413 Speaker 4: you're fun quite fertile. 90 00:04:24,453 --> 00:04:24,733 Speaker 3: Again. 91 00:04:25,253 --> 00:04:28,133 Speaker 4: That is absolutely brilliant how they do that. And the 92 00:04:28,133 --> 00:04:31,213 Speaker 4: cool thing is we've just realized that they actually also 93 00:04:31,453 --> 00:04:33,813 Speaker 4: change the cycle of. 94 00:04:35,933 --> 00:04:38,053 Speaker 3: All the if you like, carbon. 95 00:04:38,293 --> 00:04:41,173 Speaker 4: That usually needs to be taken into the soil, and 96 00:04:41,253 --> 00:04:44,973 Speaker 4: dun burtles do that too where it belongs in the soil. 97 00:04:45,053 --> 00:04:48,493 Speaker 2: What about mosquitoes, what about why do we need mosquitoes? 98 00:04:48,573 --> 00:04:50,813 Speaker 3: Right, everybody hates a good mosquito. 99 00:04:50,893 --> 00:04:54,573 Speaker 4: A well, females are the ones that bite people, but 100 00:04:54,733 --> 00:05:00,413 Speaker 4: males do not bite. They are pollinators, yes, of all 101 00:05:00,413 --> 00:05:01,293 Speaker 4: our native plants. 102 00:05:01,453 --> 00:05:02,293 Speaker 3: It comes another thing. 103 00:05:02,373 --> 00:05:05,573 Speaker 4: If mosquitoes fly around your garden, their food for native birds, 104 00:05:05,573 --> 00:05:09,413 Speaker 4: for dragonfly, for spiders, for anything else that wants to 105 00:05:09,493 --> 00:05:12,293 Speaker 4: eat their protein. And here it comes the coolest thing 106 00:05:12,333 --> 00:05:15,013 Speaker 4: of all the mosquito larvae. Those rigulars that go up 107 00:05:15,053 --> 00:05:16,213 Speaker 4: and down in your pond. 108 00:05:16,933 --> 00:05:21,253 Speaker 3: They clean the bacteria out of their water. Shall they 109 00:05:21,333 --> 00:05:22,013 Speaker 3: clean water? 110 00:05:22,773 --> 00:05:23,733 Speaker 2: That is pretty amazing? 111 00:05:23,933 --> 00:05:25,133 Speaker 3: Hey beg you served me day. 112 00:05:25,413 --> 00:05:27,653 Speaker 2: Catch again next week Rude Climb pass 113 00:05:27,973 --> 00:05:31,053 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live 114 00:05:31,173 --> 00:05:33,973 Speaker 1: to news talks that'd be from nine am Saturday, or 115 00:05:34,053 --> 00:05:35,973 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.