Our first 60-second story starts where most people never look: a crack in the pavement.
Pori scans it and the crack opens into a jungle. Moss forms the forest floor. A black garden ant runs along the edge; its colony underground usually has between 4,000 and 7,000 workers. And then a dandelion opens. Each yellow "petal" is actually a tiny flower of its own; a dandelion head is made of many small florets packed together.
Cities are full of these small wild places. They are easy to reach, safe to visit and different every week.
Found in this clip
- DandelionTaraxacum officinale
- Black garden antLasius niger
- Wall screw-mossTortula muralis
- FirebugPyrrhocoris apterushidden in the clip
Try it outside
Choose one crack in the pavement, on a quiet sidewalk or a car-free plaza, and look at it with a magnifying glass or your phone camera zoomed in. Draw what lives there. Come back in a week: what changed?
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