Urban Vegetation (or nature strikes back)
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On the idyllic Seychelles island of La Digue, huge granite boulders complement the beauty of translucent water, white sandy beaches and jungle vegetation
Generally quite dark compared to other orb web spiders and can be found close to water where their webs are spun on fencing, buildings and bridges and rarely on vegetation. Close to a river near me where I live a river flows under a road in a tunnel these Orbweb spiders can be found and seen in their webs close to the lights that help to light up the pathway where they have the best of both worlds, warmth from the lights where I have even seen the adults spiders here in February with snow outside and plus their prey such as moths and flies are attracted to the lights also. Its amazing to see their webs so close together and not eating each other, nature can be truly amazing at times.
I took this photo before the passage of hurricane Leslie in Portugal, are they still there? I don't know.
Photo by Lise, after passing Portugal, hurricane :
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The area lies in the flow of the Elsbeek, which drains the effluent from the sewage treatment plant in Enschede. The water machine purifies the water from the sewage treatment. The area consists of three sections. Each of these sections is successively filled with water for 4 hours by means of sliding, they are emptied again in 4 hours and they are dry for 4 hours. The sections are shallow and need natural vegetation. The vegetation will then purify the effluent so that the Elsbeek contains more oxygen.
The tortoises are herbivores that consume a diet of cacti, grasses, leaves, lichens, berries, melons, oranges, and milkweed. They have been documented feeding on Hippomane mancinella ('poison apple'), the endemic guava Psidium galapageium, the water fern Azolla microphylla, and the bromeliad Tillandsia insularis. Juvenile tortoises eat an average of 16.7% of their own body weight in dry matter per day, with a digestive efficiency roughly equal to that of hindgut-fermenting herbivorous mammals such as horses and rhinos.
Tortoises acquire most of their moisture from the dew and sap in vegetation (particularly the Opuntia cactus); therefore, they can survive longer than 6 months without water. They can endure up to a year when deprived of all food and water, surviving by breaking down their body fat to produce water as a byproduct. Tortoises also have very slow metabolisms. When thirsty, they may drink large quantities of water very quickly, storing it in their bladders and the "root of the neck" (the pericardium), both of which served to make them useful water sources on ships. On arid islands, tortoises lick morning dew from boulders, and the repeated action over many generations has formed half-sphere depressions in the rock.
This broadleaf water plant is threatening to take over this beautiful pond. It seems like it might be invasive, but I can’t identify it. Are there any landscapers on Flickr who might know the name of this plant.
Update: it was identified as Spatterdock
A decorative seat hidden in the shadows of the tree and the green vegetation ,a place to escape the daily hustle and bustle.
Ulster heights Lake, NY. Three elements of frozen lake surface, tree reflection and vegetation beneath the ice combine at the edge of a lake.
This was a drive-by roadside discovery while driving to the coast. This house is completely enveloped with small areas of the house showing to clue passersby that there is a full two story house inside swallowed by vegetation.
Tundra is known as the treeless land.
Arctic Tundra has no deep root systems but there is a wide variety of plants that stretch to about 1,700 different varieties. Some plants are low shrubs, sedges, reindeer mosses, liverworts, grasses, 400 varietys of flowers, crustose and foliose lichen. The plants have adapted to the environment as they have very short roots.
Alpine Tundra has very similar and also include: tussock grasses, dwarf trees, small-leafed shrubs and leafs
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