Harvested moss carries whole untold communities of invertebrates to their death

Evidence

And in the bag are also untold billions of beings who made that moss their home, like birds nesting in a forest. Scarlet Orabatid mites, bouncing springtails, whirling rotifers, reclusive waterbears, and their children: shall I say all their names in a requiem mass? — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 608

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes chapter 17’s claim that one gram of moss hosts hundreds of thousands of organisms — the ‘requiem mass’ naming act is pure observational craft. — connects to: One gram of forest-floor moss harbors several hundred thousand living organisms — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 257; Drained marshland carries its whole lost community to extinction unnoted — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 573; Invertebrates act as unwitting couriers of moss sperm beyond water’s reach — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 265 (+2 more)
• FICTION: The ‘shall I say all their names in a requiem mass?’ line could seed a story about enumerating the unregarded dead.

Broader Connections

• Invertebrates act as unwitting couriers of moss sperm beyond water’s reach #complicates (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 265
• Slugs passively pick up moss fragments in their slime as they travel #corroborates (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 375
• Ecological interdependence makes species destruction endanger all life including humans #exemplifies (0.78) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2519