He aha te take ka huri ai te tangata i ngā tarutaru me ngā kari whakapaipai ki ngā tipu taketake?
Ko wai e kore e aroha ki ngā pepeke? He tohu ataahua rātau o te harakore. Engari kua kite koe he iti ake nga tau i ia tau? I a au e tamariki ana, kāore e taea e koe te haere ki tētahi haerenga me te kore e whiwhi i ētahi pīpī ki runga i te matapihi o tō waka. Na he aha i iti ai, he aha hoki te tikanga?  Ko tētahi o ngā take matua ko te whakamahinga o ngā patu patu patu me ngā patu otaota. Ko ēnei matū he kohuru ā-roto. Na ka hinga i a rātau te ōritetanga o te taiao katoa. I roto i taku marae, kua kite ahau i te āhua o te manawanui ki te whakahoki mai i ngā mea ki te taurite. I ahau he pungawerewere, engari ka kite au i nga kaiwhaiwhai pungawerewere e whakaoti ana i te raruraru. I nga rewharewha i roto i taku whare heihei, engari i roto i etahi wiki ka kite ahau i nga Swallows me nga Phoebes e neke ana ki te whakamahi i te puna kai.  Ko tētahi atu take i iti ake ai te kitenga o ngā pīpī, he kai mā ngā kōpiro. Ko te nuinga o ngā pīpī, o ngā pīpī (ko ngā pīpī rānei o te pō, e rite ana ki taku karanga) e hiahia ana ki tētahi tipu motuhake hei noho mo a rātau kāpeti. Mo nga purapura Monarch, ko te Milkweed (Asclepias), he ingoa kino mo te tipu ataahua. Mo te Pipevine Swallowtails, ko te Pipevine (Aristolochia). Ki te kore ēnei tipu, kāore he pūtake kai a ngā kāpeti. A, i te wā e tāpaea ana ngā taone me ngā rohe o waho, kāore he wāhi e tipu ai ēnei tipu i te nuinga o te wā. Ka titiro tatou ki o tatou ake marae, kei reira nga tipu ataahua i kawemai mai i etahi atu waahi. Engari ki te pepeke, he rite ki te koraha o ā tātou marae. Ahakoa ngā tipu pēnei i te rākau, e kukume ana i te tini o ngā pepeke mō te miraka, kāore he kai mō ngā pepeke pēpi o te whenua. He rite tonu ki te whai i tētahi pae hei inu mā ngā pakeke, engari kāore he kai hei whāngai i a rātau tamariki kia tupu ai rātau hei pakeke hoki.  Engari e mea ana a Doug Tallamy, he kairangahau mō ngā rauropi mai i te Whare Wānanga o Delaware, ka taea e mātou te āwhina. Mā te whakatō i ētahi tipu taketake ki ō tātou marae, ka taea e tātou te whakarato i te kai hei whakahoki mai i ngā pīpī.  I a mātau e whakarite ana ki te whakarerekē i tō mātau kari mai i ngā tipu whakapaipai matomato tonu, ki tētahi kari Ingarihi/puaka puawai tapahi, ka puta tētahi mea. I kite mātou i a Doug Tallamy e kōrero ana i tētahi hui a CNPS Silicon Valley Zoom. Na ka mōhio mātou me huri tō mātou aronga, ka tīmata ki te mahi kari ki ngā tāngata taketake.  I a mātau e titiro ana ki tō mātau kari, ko te mea nui, kei te tīmatanga noa iho mātau... He whakamātautau nui tēnei kia kite ai he aha te mea e pai ana ki hea. A kei te kōrero kē te kari ki a tātou. Kua peke atu te tarutaru kanohi puru i te ara kua oti te patu ki tētahi atu wāhanga o te kari! E tūmanako ana mātou kia nui ake te nekehanga me te mīharo i te wā e heke mai ana. Anei ētahi o ā mātou whakaaro mō tō mātou kari.  Ngā manaakitanga... Ko te whai i tētahi rākau oki nui i tō mātou marae, me te awa i muri i a mātou, kua tino āwhina i a mātou i runga i ngā āhuatanga o te kai me te uru atu o te kararehe mohoao ki tō mātou marae.  Ko te taha kino... He nui te atarangi. E rua anake, e toru pea ngā wāhi i tō mātou kari e pai ana te rā. Na, ka haere mātau ki Calscape ki te rapu tipu e pai ana ki te atarangi. (Ki te kore koe e tūtaki ki a Calscape, ka whiwhi koe i tētahi mea whakamīharo. Ko te tumanako ka noho koe ki California...).  Whāinga... hei Talamites, e whakapono ana mātou ki te whāngai i te pūnaha taiao, e tīmata ana ki te whakatipu tarutaru. Na, he pēhea te āhua o te mahi? Heoi, kotahi, e rua noa iho ngā kāpeti i kitea e mātou i tēnei wā. He mihi nui. He whakamātautau katoa...  Ko te pānga nui rawa... ko te waiho i ngā rau i te tau kua hipa. Ka taea e mātou te kite i te pai ake o te oneone, ā, ia wā e whakawai ana mātou ka kite mātou i te tini o ngā pepeke e piki ake ana i te kōhanga. Na kei te tupu tenei. Ka āta...  Na, kei te whakakapia tonutia e mātou ngā tangata whenua kore ki ngā tangata whenua. I te wiki kua hipa i tangohia atu e mātou a Sarcococca me Pierris Japonicas, ā, i whakakapia ki a Coffeeberry (Frangula Californica). I te mutunga o te wiki nei, i tapahia e mātau e rua nga rākau maple, ā, i whakakapia ki te Bush Anemone (Carpenteria Californica). A, hei te wiki e haere ake nei ka whakakapihia e mātau tō mātau rākau kāpeti ki te Coyote Brush (Bacharis pilularis).  I tua atu i ngā pepeke, kua kite mātou i ētahi atu kararehe mohoao nui i tō mātou marae. Ka whānau mai he kohanga hōu o ngā kōtiro pēpi i roto i te rākau ia tau. A i tēnei tau i miharo mātou i te neke mai o ngā pēpi raccoon e 3 ki roto i te rākau (he nui te koromeke).  He reka, he whakama, he ahuareka hoki. Kua koa matou ki te mātaki i a rātau e haere mai ana ki waho, e rapu kai ana i te rākau i ia pō.