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The fly agaric is poisonous. It is even related to the extremely poisonous green tuberous manite! There are various toxins in the hat. It is not yet known what a mushroom uses poison for. Research is still being done. If you ingest the poison, you can become very ill. If you ingest enough poison, it will kill you! In the past, fly agarics were used in rituals. After ingesting the mushroom, shamans (a type of priest) experienced hallucinations.
Mushrooms such as the fly agaric sometimes stand in a circle. The cause of this can also be found under the ground, at the mycelium. When a mycelium grows, it does so in all directions. When the nutrients are used up in the middle of the mycelium, that part dies. This creates an open space in the middle of the mycelium. Only when the mushrooms grow out, you can see the witch circle.
... Fly yellow moon, you give this charmless world some grace.
Today, brave daughter and I headed out to try classic cross country skiing in the arctic circle. We passed through this special place with the moon hovering over the snow in Finnish forest stillness. A day I'll never forget ...
Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
William Blake from Songs of Experience. First published in 1794.
So nice to have this little beauty pose for me.
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Vermilion Flycatcher is very agile. It can catch any bug in the air without stopping. This Vermilion was pursing a fly and ate it. You can see the fly at the top of the picture. It eyes on the fly.
De Amanita muscaria, beter bekend als een vliegenzwam of als de rode paddenstoel met witte stippen.
Rozendaal, Nederland
The Amanita muscaria, better known as a fly agaric or as the red mushroom with white dots.
Rozendaal, The Netherlands
from my garden after I watered!
The weather here on LI has been crazy hot... it feels like summer already...
These goose were on the wings and it was hard to get them in the frame but some of the photo s I had the luck that this scucceded.
No crob is made.
It is probably a courtship ritual of common drone fly
Schwebfliegen im Formationsflug
Es handelt sich wohl um ein Balzritual der Scheinbienen-Keilfleckschwebfliege
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.
Richard Bach.
Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. Bach is widely known as the author of some hugely popular 1970s best-sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977). Bach has authored numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including One: A Novel (1989) and Out of My Mind (1999).
Most of Bach's books have been semi-autobiographical, using actual or fictionalized events from his life to illustrate his philosophy. Bach's books espouse his philosophy that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance. Bach is noted for his love of aviation and for his books related to flying in a metaphorical context. Bach has pursued flying as a hobby since the age of 17. In late August 2012, Bach was badly injured when on approach to landing at Friday Harbor, Washington, his aircraft clipped some power lines and crashed upside down in a field. Source Wikipedia.
This is a very large hoverfly. It's body is about 3 cm long. I finally found it it a Tiger bee fly. It feeds on nectar and despite it’s size it’s harmless as an adult. However it’s larvae are parasites and feed on carpenter bee hatchling.