Protective Mimicry
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I thought this cloud looked a bit like the rocks in front of it, so I grabbed a shot. :) Taken just before dinner time in the Alabama Hills.
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EXTREMELY VOCAL, and can be a proficient mimic of both animate and inanimate sounds. Love the way a starling walks with characteristic swagger, and the flight is rather undulating and the wings look pointed and triangular in outline. /// SOMETHING out of the norm. for me, but felt it had something of appeal going for it, so have risked posting it, hope you enjoy it.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP, hope you are keeping well and enjoying this hot weather, have a great weekend, stay safe and may God bless you............................Tomx.
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"OUR EARS ARE CLOSED"
Sea and mountains, valleys and streams
Night and day were all in Gods dreams,
The Garden of Eden with its precious tree
The Son He gave to set us free.
The seed He placed in the heart He made
Don't let its flowers wither and fade,
Is the ear closed to His constant plea
For in truth we live to disagree.
Have we not learned a thing from the past?
Why is the blindness we have so vast ?
We've ignored His word since time began
To do as we will has been our plan.
Has the Saviour's death not opened our eyes
When His blood was shed for our demise,
Mocked and beaten, betrayed from within
God's Holy Lamb pierced for our sin.
When the reaper comes and we walk to the gate
Do we all stand in line, to wait and wait,
Or will the one who gives life lead you through
And walk with you to paradise and life anew ?
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POEM by John Wren, a blessed and talented Flickr friend of mine.
Papilio polytes, the common Mormon, is a common species of swallowtail butterfly widely distributed across Asia. This butterfly is known for the mimicry displayed by the numerous forms of its females which mimic inedible red-bodied swallowtails, such as the common rose and the crimson rose
Cuckoo - Cuculus Canorus
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, e that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so.
The English word "cuckoo" comes from the Old French cucu and it first appears about 1240 in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In - "Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!" in modern English.
The scientific name is from Latin. Cuculus is "cuckoo" and canorus, "melodious ".
A study using stuffed bird models found that small birds are less likely to approach common cuckoos that have barred underparts similar to the Eurasian sparrowhawk, a predatory bird. Eurasian reed warblers were found more aggressive to cuckoos that looked less hawk-like, meaning that the resemblance to the hawk helps the cuckoo to access the nests of potential hosts. Other small birds, great tits and blue tits, showed alarm and avoided attending feeders on seeing either (mounted) sparrowhawks or cuckoos; this implies that the cuckoo's hawklike appearance functions as protective mimicry, whether to reduce attacks by hawks or to make brood parasitism easier.
The common cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. At the appropriate moment, the hen cuckoo flies down to the host's nest, pushes one egg out of the nest, lays an egg and flies off. The whole process takes about 10 seconds. A female may visit up to 50 nests during a breeding season. Common cuckoos first breed at the age of two years.
More than 100 host species have been recorded: meadow pipit, dunnock and Eurasian reed warbler are the most common hosts in northern Europe; garden warbler, meadow pipit, pied wagtail and European robin in central Europe; brambling and common redstart in Finland; and great reed warbler in Hungary.
Studies were made of 90 great reed warbler nests in central Hungary. There was an "unusually high" frequency of common cuckoo parasitism, with 64% of the nests parasitised. Of the nests targeted by cuckoos, 64% contained one cuckoo egg, 23% had two, 10% had three and 3% had four common cuckoo eggs. In total, 58% of the common cuckoo eggs were laid in nests that were multiply parasitised. When laying eggs in nests already parasitised, the female cuckoos removed one egg at random, showing no discrimination between the great reed warbler eggs and those of other cuckoos.
It was found that nests close to cuckoo perches were most vulnerable: multiple parasitised nests were closest to the vantage points, and unparasitised nests were farthest away. Nearly all the nests "in close vicinity" to the vantage points were parasitised. More visible nests were more likely to be selected by the common cuckoos. Female cuckoos use their vantage points to watch for potential hosts and find it easier to locate the more visible nests while they are egg-laying.
Wasp mimic fly, possibly Spilomyia alcimus, on boneset flowers
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)
Lyrebirds are masters of mimicry and will mimic other birds or even mobile (cell) phone ringtones.
From a visit to Healesville Sanctuary on this day in 2019.
Say what you need to say then let the machine mimic it in a remix of its own style. Orlando Florida 9/9/20
OUTFIT
ERSCH - Kteo Top {Legacy}
ERSCH - Kteo Gloves {Legacy}
Love this Top buy Ersch come on at the Ersch Mainstore and buy it go guys
GIFT
Clover - Gift Mimic
Clover - Gift Mimic (Male)
i LOVE this Gift Mimic so cool and funny come with a hud to chance colors and open the mouth in random time xd really funny for use
Epilog ~ Decoy of weak Souls from Swamp
what was this all about. Time for storytellers to perform and..... scare
if we are curious about new and mysterious, about a beauty of unknown it is very well recommended to take adventure but be careful. Make always a way to come back, or fight ......
I am sorry for long disappearance, I enter in moody water of swamp to find another inspiration and almost lost my way out...
haha
Small but flamboyant, the bee orchid is one of nature's great mimics. Perched within the large pink sepals are petals shaped and coloured like a visiting bee. The pink sepals look like wings and there are furry, brown lips that have yellow markings just like a bee.
The deception goes further than visual appearance alone: as well emitting a female bee scent, the fake "bee" is hairy to touch.
The Bee Orchid is quite small and has a rosette of leaves at ground level. Two leaves grow up the stem as a sheath.
Open grassland on base-rich soil, such as chalk grasslands. Also banks, woodland rides and pastures. Bee orchids like a bit of disturbance – they can occur in disused quarries, sand dunes, mine spoil-heaps, on roadsides, railway embankments, even waste ground in towns. They sometimes behave like rampant weeds, appearing in large numbers on disturbed chalk grasslands. They can also occur on lawns, sometimes many miles from the nearest wild colony. They also inhabit damp places, such as damp, clayey meadows and shallow fens.
The Latin specific epithet apifera means "bee-bearing" or "bee-bringing" and refers to the bee-shaped lip of the orchid. The aim of the mimicry is to attract passing male bees in the hope they will try to mate and thus aid pollination. In Britain, however, bee orchids self-pollinate so the deception is not really required. This self-pollination may account for the high incidence of freaks or so-called monstrous forms. For instance, occasionally flowers with white sepals and unusual lip markings occur.
This wild flower was once called the "Humble Bee" orchid (Humble being a variation of Bumble). Other vernacular names include Bee-flower, Bumble bee, Dumble dor and Honey-flower.
The name "Ophrys" comes from the Greek word ophrys, meaning "eyebrow".According to Roman natural historian Pliny the Elder it was used by womenfolk to darken their eyebrows.
Some type of Fly that mimics a Wasp, possibly a Thick-headed Fly. Photographed in Maryland.
A single 2:1 magnification photo. Canon 80D, Canon 65mm MPE macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400, flash set 1/32 power.
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I'll walk alone
I walk alone and I walk
I walk this empty street
On the boulevard of broken dreams
When the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk.
Green Day.
ADVENTURE is the topic for Saturday, August 14, 2021, Group Our Daily Challenge.
it was a little adventure to suddenly see this giant insect and hope that I would take a picture of it before it escapes from the camera lens. 😄
This hover fly's markings mimic that of bees for protection. Seen in Desert Meadows Park in Green Valley, Arizona, USA.
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I spent a lovely day with a Flickr friend in Toronto. Apart from the weather it was a fantastic day.. Thank you Judy
I'm hazarding a guess at Volucella bombylans - red-tailed bumble bee mimic but am open to correction HFDF & HWW!
What an amazing mimic! The Hummingbird Clearwing Moth flies and moves just like a hummingbird. It is perhaps one of the most delightful insect to visit the garden.
The Mimic Octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) has a unique way of camouflaging. Rather than blending in with the seafloor, it changes its skin color and how it moves its tentacles to take on the shape of other sea creatures.
At Wilderness Park, also know as bamboo forest, in Prattville Alabama. There were around 20+ of these guys, even more bullfrogs and a koi fish. More pictures of the area to follow.
Bit of symmetry at Freshwater, Dorset a couple weeks back. Very nice of the wave to co-operate and mimic the shape of the cliff so nicely for me