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Oleander Aphids on a young Swamp Milkweed leaf. (I know it's Swamp Milkweed because I saw it blooming the year before.) The biggest one is 1.7 mm long. This is one of the critters that has adapted to feeding on this poisonous plant (milkweed contains cardiac glycosides; but a few species, such as the Monarch, have adapted to feed on it and concentrate the toxins in their own tissues, making themselves unpalatable to predators).
These same species of aphids were all over the Swamp Milkweed that I planted in front of my house last year. I think they may have been responsible for stunting the growth of some of the plants rather severely -- or maybe the plants were just too close to the yew.
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
Rabindranath Tagore
Myrtle wattle, Acacia myrtifolia leaf without veins. Burnum Burnum Reserve, Jannali NSW Australia, May 2012.
autumn orange comes from carotene and yellow from xanthophyll, which is itself derived from carotene. both become visible when chlorophyll stops being produced by the tree as it prepares itself to preserve water during the winter months.
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Textures, Lizard Skin, Golden Flecks and Nightmare from pareeerica with thanks.
From my garden. Lupins or lupines (North America) are the members of the genus Lupinus in the legume family (Fabaceae). Three Mediterranean species of lupin, Blue Lupin, White Lupin and Yellow Lupin (L. luteus) are widely cultivated for livestock and poultry feed. Both sweet and bitter lupins in feed can cause livestock poisoning. Lupin poisoning is a nervous syndrome caused by alkaloids in bitter lupins, similar to neurolathyrism. Mycotoxic lupinosis is a disease caused by lupin material that is infected with the fungus Diaporthe toxica[8]; the fungus produces mycotoxins called phomopsins, which cause liver damage. Poisonous lupin seeds cause annually the loss of many cattle and sheep on western American Ranges Wikipedia article.
Photography Assignment | Leaves
Camera: Lumix S1H
Lens: Lumix 24-105mm
Format: RAW
Color: Corrected in Adobe Lightroom
Model: Nature (😜)
Photographer: Vijay Armstrong