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A True/False volunteer transports two heaping platters of egg rolls during "Reality Bites," a food exhibition at the Missouri Theatre. There were quite a few hungry people to feed.
The False Aqua Delight acropora from my friend Jeremy (tuberider). Picked this piece up at the Bay Area Reefers frag swap yesterday.
It's lacking bit of color because it just went through a 24 hour reef dip (providone for 15 minutes, interceptor flatworm exit for 24 hours).
This is another one of the first 5 corals to make it into my ELOS system 120 reef tank.
False Kiva in Canyonlands Utah is quite a special location to shoot. The hike wasn't bad at all and the view is second to none.
My first false widow! Found at work and brought home for a quick shoot before setting it free.
It was much bigger than I expected, being almost the size of a regular house spider, which I assumed it was at first until I saw that it was not hairy enough and its legs not long enough. It was very timid, and like most spiders, tried to run and hide rather than be aggressive. Once I got close I could see its eye arrangement was quite unusual in that the eyes are larged more pronounced than most web-building spiders whose eyes are generally useless and tend to be not much more than pin-pricks.
There have been a lot of stories in the UK press about false widows recently, most of it not true or grossly exaggerated. I tend to swicth off as soon as I see the word 'poisonous' as most journalists seem unwilling or unable to find out the difference between poisonous and venomous. Yes, false widows are venomous, as are all spiders. They are also one of the few species in the UK with fangs capable of piercing human skin. As with most spiders, they are timid and prefer to escape rather than attack, but may bite when cornered. The symptoms are fairly mild and do not generally require medical attention although probably more unpleasant than any other spider purely because we have no significantly venomous spiders here. It's not an invasive species, having been present in this country for at least 100 years, so the stories of swarms of invading spiders (tabloids like to use the hysterical immigrant angle) are not true. They are also not closely related to black widows. They are both members of the family of comb-footed spiders, along with around 2000 other species. Those species known as false widows belong to the genus Steatoda. Black widows and related similar species belong to the genus Lactrodatus. The name only comes from their passing physical resemblence and give that one is brown while the other is black (usually with distinctive bright red markings), the connection is tenuous to say the least. So for most of the press stories to call them 'cousins' of black widows and run stories including pictures of black widows is misleading at best and irresponsible at worst. The word 'deadly' is also often used when there are no recorded deaths from Steatoda bites, and most of the stories I have read (as well as most stories regarding other spider bites) the victim of the bite did not see, let alone capture, the creature that bit them. I have noticed for some time that people often wake up with bites and assume a spider bit them in the night when it was far more likely to have been a flea, bed bug, mosquito or some other creature which survives by drinking blood. And yet spiders are usually assumed to be to blame. I noticed that most of these 'false widow bite' stories are a result of bites that are assumed to be from them even though the creature itself is never seen.
This false-color VIS image is located in the center of Syrtis Major Planum. At the top of the image is Nili Patera, a volcanic summit.
The sand dunes located near Nili Patera are visible on the left side of the image. The bottom of the image is just west of Meroe Patera. Dunes located between Nili and Meroe are visible towards the bottom of the image.
Winds in the region have created the dunes, but also many windstreaks on the downward side of craters in the image. Wind streaks indicate the direction of the wind. In this region the winds are blowing from east to west.
The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. These false color images may reveal subtle variations of the surface not easily identified in a single band image.
This martian scene spans 18 x 270 kilometers (11 x 169 miles). To see where on Mars this area lies, and to download high-resolution versions of the image, go to themis.asu.edu/zoom-20190405a
See the Red Planet Report at redplanet.asu.edu for updates on Mars research and exploration. For more about Mars geology, check out the Mars-ePedia: marsed.asu.edu/marsepedia
For the latest THEMIS Mars images as received by mission scientists, see themis.asu.edu/livefrommars. To learn more about the THEMIS camera and its Mars images, see themis.asu.edu.
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Hozaki-Nana-Kamado, 穂咲七竃, False spiraea, Sorbaria sorbifolia var. stellipila
The buds are small pretty white balls. Hozaki means long flower ear, Nana-Kamado is the name for rowans or mountain ash. Nana-kamado literally means seven-farnace (range of firewood), because this wood is hard to burn, so they say it takes seven trials to burn it. (I don't know if it is true or not (^o^))
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, June2007
NikonD70s/MicroNikkor60mm
A text, in english, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Ocellaris clownfish
The Ocellaris Clownfish, Clownfish or False Percula Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) is a popular aquarium fish. It is very closely related to A. percula, the Orange Clownfish or "True Percula Clownfish", and often lives in association with the sea anemone Heteractis magnifica, using them for shelter and protection. Generally, Ocellaris clownfish are hardier, and slightly less aggressive than its Percula counterpart. Both species are found in coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific, particularly in the Fiji and Tonga regions.
This clown anemonefish can be recognised by its orange colour with three white bars and black markings on the fins. It grows to about eight centimeters (three inches) in length. One can differentiate between Percula (true) and Ocellaris (false) by their respective colors and patterns. Ocellaris are usually less vibrantly colored, and have 11 dorsal fin-spines instead of 10, as on the Percula. Also, the species have different eye arrangements: Percula have bright orange irises, making their eyes appear smaller, whereas Ocellaris have grey/orange irises which make the species eyes appear bigger.
There is a rare melanistic variety hailing from the reefs around Darwin, Australia, that is a darker colour with the normal white stripes. Although not common in the wild, they are becoming more and more popular in the aquarium hobby.
Phylogeny:
The species Amphiprion ocellaris are related to the class Osteichthyes which contains bony fish and ray-finned fish. A. ocellaris is the most basal species in the genus Amphiprion which is closely related to the genera Premnas. The species' most closely related ancestor is Amphiprion percula, the Orange Clownfish. It is thought that A. ocellaris specialized after diverging from the Premnas genus, and scientific evidence confirms that all clownfish belonging to the genus Amphiprion could withstand the stings of only one type of anemone, after further diverging the 28 different species of clownfish including A. ocellaris specialized to be able to resist the poisonous stings of many different species.
Analogous structures:
Clownfish have many structures which are analogous with other species, the distinctive stripes found on the clownfish can be seen in few animals. Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoidesor otherwise known as the Scarlet King Snake has a well-defined pattern of red, black and yellow bands. These two structures both have characterises that are similar in use, the bands of each species help warn off predators if the animal is in danger. These bands also help camouflage both organisms in each of their different environments. The bright orange base striped with white found on the clownfish allows it to be undetected in its surroundings of fluorescent corals and anemones.
Homologous structures:
All fish have a mucus membrane surrounding their scales. The mucus usually contains high amounts of lipids and glycoproteins; however, the family Pomacentridae (anemone fish) have a special adaptation where the mucus coating the species is a great deal thicker. Also the protective layer lacks a specific substance that triggers nematocysts (the stings of an anemone); this allows the fish immunity against the toxic stings. Little is known about the mucus except that it is a genetically inherited trait and passed through the generations of each species. In other families of fish, the mucus is used as protection against harmful bacteria, an osmotic regulator and also aids the fish in nest making. The difference in mucuses has led to the divergent path of anemone fish and other species.
Clownfish are initially male; the largest fish in a group becomes female.
Popular culture:
he 2003 Disney/Pixar film, Finding Nemo featured the clown fish duo, Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould) a juvenile clownfish, the title character/Marlin's son, and Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) as Nemo's overprotective father.
Um texto, em português, da Wikipédia, a Enciclopédia livre:
Peixe-palhaço
Peixe-palhaço, ou peixe-das-anêmonas é o nome vulgar das espécies da subfamília Amphiprioninae na família Pomacentridae. Existem cerca de 27 espécies, uma das quais pertence ao gênero Premnas, pertencendo os outros ao gênero tipo Amphiprion. Deve o seu nome à forma desalinhada como nada.
As espécies assim designadas são nativas de uma vasta região compreendida em águas tépidas do Pacífico, coexistindo algumas espécies em algumas dessas regiões. São famosos devido à relação ecológica de protocooperação que estabelecem com as anêmonas-do-mar ou, em alguns casos, com corais. As anêmonas providenciam-lhes abrigo, apesar dos tentáculos urticantes a que são imunes, devido à camada de muco que os reveste. O peixe-palhaço esconde-se dos predadores nas anêmonas. Na base das mesmas, botam seus ovos, assegurando a proteção de sua prole. Em retorno, os restos do alimento do peixe-palhaço são utilizados pela anêmona. Uma associação que beneficia os dois parceiros.
Em geral, em cada anémona existe um "harém" que consiste em uma fêmea grande, um macho menor e outros machos não reprodutivos ainda menores. No caso de a fêmea ser removida, o macho reprodutor muda de sexo, num processo dito protandria, e o maior dos machos não reprodutivos torna-se reprodutivo.
Nemo, o protagonista do filme Finding Nemo (Procurando Nemo) é um peixe-palhaço.
Peixe fotografado na loja "Brasília Aquários", especializada em aquários de alta tecnologia, localizada no Fashion Mall, na 502 sul Térreo www.brasiliaaquario.com.br
I was looking at the July 2010 issue of Scuba Diving and on page 19 saw an article on the Tongue-Eating Louse that parasitizes various species of fish, including anemonefish, by replacing the host fishes tongue. A quick inspection of my photos revealed I had captured one of these little isopods living in the mouth of this Falso Clown. For two years I thought I had a great shot of the False Clown's tongue!!
Berries from a False Solomon's seal plant. The leaves were drying out with summer but the berries were still whole.
Stereum Ostrea, or false turkey tail mushroom, is pictured here growing off a dead Quercus rubra (red oak) stump. This organism is a decomposer, growing in dense clumps and feeding exclusively on rotting wood, and it provides the valuable service of recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem, where they can be taken up by primary producers. This mushroom is commonly confused with the true turkey tail mushroom (Trametes versicolor) due to their similar shapes. The easiest way to distinguish them is by their undersides. True turkey tail contains fine pores that are visible to the eye, while the false mushroom has a smooth surface (which I confirmed after pulling off a few from the stump).
A talk about false memories by an artist (With Collective) and a psychologist (Dr Christopher French) working on a Wellcome Trust funded project to create a False Memory Archive.
False Chanterelle (Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca).
Photographed in the pine plantation at Holk Meals, Norfolk.