foraging

Mr Williamson, a County Armagh beekeeper, said this behaviour typically takes place from mid to late summer and can prevent bees from foraging, causing them to starve.

His connection to fungi became clearer to me when, on a side table, I spotted copies of his book and a calendar, both extolling the joy and connection to nature that comes from foraging naked.

It was during her time in the rainforest reserve at Gombe, in Tanzania, when she stopped to spend time watching a male chimpanzee who was foraging.

“With all that noise and all those people down there, right on the lake, the eagles aren’t going to use that for foraging habitat,” she said.

Locals know Phillips as a bushman with survival skills that would have set him up for building shelters and foraging for food in the wilderness.