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Norfolk Hawker - Anaciaeschna isoceles
Habitat
The optimum conditions for breeding appear to be unspoilt grazing marsh dyke systems with clean, non-saline water, rushy margins, preferably with an abundance of water soldier as well as other aquatic plants.
Threats
Conversion of grazing marsh to arable farming.
Inappropriate ditch management.
Nutrients enrichment.
Pollution.
The impact of global climate change and fluctuations in water levels.
Status & Distribution
The Norfolk Hawker is currently restricted to the fens and grazing marshes that are relatively isolated from polluted water in the Broadlands of Norfolk and Northeast Suffolk. A Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP) for the Norfolk Hawker has been drafted for Norfolk.
Similar Species
Brown Hawker
Brown wings.
Blue-brown eyes.
Blue and yellow markings.
Management
Norfolk Hawker Management Profile
General management principles include maintaining grazing marshes, controlling saline intrusion, controlling nutrient enrichment. There are also best practice guidelines for managing inhabited sites, particularly the dyke vegetation and the surrounding terrestrial habitats.
Case Study
Work is underway to restore habitats for this species in Norfolk.
I let Azizi clamber over some very new, very hard cherry tomatoes (room temp) to show how tiny he is. He's supposed to eat fruit but like most Tenrec owners, they are faddy so any fruit and veg has to be fed via the bugs! It's called gut loading and it ensures that my 6 quilled wonders get all the nutrients they need.
Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) 🍄🍄 Famous, enchanting and highly toxic. Fly agaric is the home of fairies and magical creatures and a lover of birch woodland, where it helps trees by transferring nutrients into their roots, but if eaten can cause hallucinations and psychotic reactions.
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A close up shot of the Sundew plant showing the sticky globules that attracts insects. By absorbing insects the plant can obtain additional minerals and nutrients which are lacking in the acid wetland soils.
Norfolk Hawker - Anaciaeschna isoceles (M)
Habitat
The optimum conditions for breeding appear to be unspoilt grazing marsh dyke systems with clean, non-saline water, rushy margins, preferably with an abundance of water soldier as well as other aquatic plants.
Threats
Conversion of grazing marsh to arable farming.
Inappropriate ditch management.
Nutrients enrichment.
Pollution.
The impact of global climate change and fluctuations in water levels.
Status & Distribution
The Norfolk Hawker is currently restricted to the fens and grazing marshes that are relatively isolated from polluted water in the Broadlands of Norfolk and Northeast Suffolk. A Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP) for the Norfolk Hawker has been drafted for Norfolk.
Similar Species
Brown Hawker
Brown wings.
Blue-brown eyes.
Blue and yellow markings.
Management
Norfolk Hawker Management Profile
General management principles include maintaining grazing marshes, controlling saline intrusion, controlling nutrient enrichment. There are also best practice guidelines for managing inhabited sites, particularly the dyke vegetation and the surrounding terrestrial habitats.
Case Study
Work is underway to restore habitats for this species in Norfolk.
Phalaenopsis Orchids Are Nicknamed ‘Moth orchids’
You may have heard Phalaenopsis orchids called “moth orchids” before. While it might seem like the nickname originated from the appearance of the blooms — which do look like a pretty moth taking flight — the actual reason for the nickname goes much deeper. “Phalaenopsis” comes from the Latin word “phal,” which translates to “moth.” Of course, this isn’t a coincidence: Carl Ludwig Blume, who gave Phalaenopsis orchids their name, supposedly chose it due to the moth resemblance.
The Phalaenopsis Fragrance Is Most Pronounced at Sunrise
If you’ve ever woken up in the morning to the sweet smell of orchids and wondered why your nose was so keen to the scent in the early morning, it turns out there’s actually a reason for that. The lightly sweet smell of a flowering orchid is actually most pronounced at sunrise.
Phalaenopsis Orchids Grow Naturally in Trees
Even though we’re so conditioned to see them in pots, Phalaenopsis orchids actually naturally grow in trees. However, while they like to use trees as their grounding place, orchids don’t actually extract nutrients from their host tree. They have aerial roots that curl around tree trunks and branches, rather than burrow into soil.
Phalaenopsis Orchids can get Sunburned
You likely already know that you shouldn’t put your orchid in direct sunlight, but did you know that doing so can actually cause your plant to develop a sunburn? Rather than turning red, a sunburned orchid will have withered, yellowed leaves or develop brown and white splotches. If this happens, move your orchid to a shadier spot immediately and do your best to keep your plant hydrated.
Phalaenopsis Orchids are Native to Southeast Asia
If you’ve ever wondered where your orchids originate from, here’s your answer: Southeast Asia. However, you’ll also find Phals native to the Philippines and Australia.
Phalaenopsis Orchids Can Take Up to a Year To Flower
Most Phalaenopsis take their sweet time to flower. Luckily, unless you’re an orchid grower, most plant owners don’t have to wait through this process. By the time you purchase your orchid, it should either already be in a blooming cycle or have buds ready to burst.
Purple dead-nettle is a low annual, unpleasant-smelling, fast-growing dead-nettle that blooms from March to October.
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It can bloom even in mild winters.
It grows to a height of 10 to 30 cm and is very common throughout the Netherlands.
It grows on open, moist, very nutrient-rich soil in fields and vegetable gardens, on dikes and on roadsides, also in the dunes and under coppice wood. In a short time the plant can form entire carpets.
Trees share water and nutrients through the networks, and also use them to communicate. They send distress signals about drought and disease, for example, or insect attacks, and other trees alter their behavior when they receive these messages. Scientists call these mycorrhizal networks. I think they have a special language when they run into each other trying to reach the sky or is it some kind of competition between them?
Approaching Sylvan Pass from Yellowstone National Park's east entrance, I encountered this snag forest in the Absaroka Range.
Snag forests are actually quite beneficial to the ecosystem, providing nutrient rich resources to the various fora and fauna inhabiting the area. This forest is a result of lightning caused wildfires in 2007.
There must have been a lot of nutrient blown ashore to fertilize the wildflowers at the shore of Lake St. Clair (Michigan). The pink flowers in the foreground are Common Milkweed, a favorite of Monarch Butterflies. Behind are Blue Vervain, and the wild snakelike whips with yellow clusters of flowers are Black Mustard.
The tallest of the flowers was taller than me! 5'11" (180cm)
The small milkweed bug is a species of seed bug in the family Lygaeidae.
It is found in north temperate regions of North America and is not a migratory insect. Only adults overwinter and they do not begin reproduction until the following April. Females are receptive to males in all seasons. The eggs are laid on milkweed in the spring.
Small milkweed bugs' primary sources of nutrients are flower nectar and milkweed seeds. If these food sources are limited, they may feed on other insects. (Wikipedia)
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Although there was plenty of milkweed in the area, there were few flowers, so this Milkweed Bug is feasting on Pearly Everlasting flowers instead.
Pinhey Dunes, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. August 2022.
Los girasoles, aún la mayoría sin abrir la flor, excepto este ejemplar que por acción de los nutrientes ha desarrollado su flor antes que los demás. ¡Enhorabuena chaval!
El ISO fue un olvido, pero aún así, ningún ruido en la fotografía, para que después hablen mal de las micro 4/3,
Sunflowers, most of them still without opening the flower, except for this specimen that, due to the action of nutrients, has developed its flower before the others. Congratulations lad!
The ISO was forgotten, but even so, no noise in the photograph, so that later they speak ill of the micro 4/3,
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El colibri Garganta Verde una especie de altura que le gusta el habitat de montaña y nebuloso apropiado encontrarlo en El Area Protegida Cerro Verde al occidente de la Ciudad de San Salvador El Salvador.
como todos los colibri se alimentan de nectar de flores en especial de color rojas y amarillas pero para conseguir mas nutrientes en ocaciones buscan diminutos insectos de donde obtienen algunas proteinas importantes para su salud.
Sumakh ("vinegar tree")
This small tree or tall shrub has an exotic appearance and looks attractive all year round. Most representatives of the Sumac genus grow in warmer climates and the only representative that has acclimatized in the middle zone is the deer-horned sumac (Rhus typhina).
Why autumn leaves are so diverse and differ in many shades, not everyone knows. Most of the year, pigments are masked by a large amount of green chlorophyll. But in autumn, due to a decrease in the length of daylight hours and a decrease in temperature, active metabolic processes in the leaves stop, nutrients move from the foliage to the branches, trunk and root system, chlorophyll breaks down. Pigments of yellow and orange become visible, which gives the leaves their autumn splendor.
Unfortunately, we cannot independently influence the brightness of the color of the leaves, and in gloomy rainy weather sometimes we are left without a golden autumn parade. The only thing that can be done is to plant plants with decorative fall foliage in the sunniest places, since in partial shade the bright color may not appear or be less intense.
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Today is a pink or purple day at Color my World Daily and we have another awesome theme at Smile on Saturday : cakes and cookies. And what is better than cookies ? Flying cookies of course. Juste like the chocolate from yesterday’s picture those are very, very low in calories but very, very high in not really essential nutrients… So if you can catch flying cookies (since they are very light, they can be very, very fast), you can have as many as you want …. And don’t worry about the weight !! Those cookies are absolutely guilt free since we all know that guilt feels like the heaviest element on earth. So please, treat yourself to a guilt free, very light and delicious cookie … or whatever you like !
See you later my friends !! Happy SOS and happy CMWD to all participants and Flickr users !! Mucho, mucho amor for you all !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!!
C'è sempre un sottile mistero che aleggia sul battente dell'onda. Sull'esile frontiera tra le sconfinate superfici e le buie profondità marine e le luminose distese sabbiose della terra emersa. L'onda si spande e si ritira, perennemente, trascinando nutrienti e alimentano minuscoli organismi, che l'evoluzione non ha ancora assegnato all'una o all'altra realtà ..... ..
Dead or dying trees don’t always need to be removed, if they are located in a forested area or away from people and structures. These trees can serve as a home and refuge for woodpeckers and other wildlife. In addition, its nutrients enrich the soil near decaying wood, helping new plants to grow and keeping living ones healthy as the nutrients are reabsorbed.
I saw this tree in the park last year and felt so sad. No signs of life, it was rotting and full of fungi. Trees are my favorite gifts from nature.
Male common blues have violet-blue upper wings with grey-beige undersides. However, females vary from those with predominantly brown upper wings and orange crescents, usually more common in the south, to those with more blue, found farther north and west.
This butterfly is common throughout the UK. There are often two broods, with eggs laid in June, then August and September. Common blue caterpillars hibernate and pupate in April and May giving rise to adults in May and June.
The caterpillars are short, green and furry. They feed on the underside of young leaves, leaving the upper leaf epidermis intact. This creates silvery blotches on the leaves that are easy to spot.
The caterpillars secrete nutrient-containing substances that attract ants. In turn, the ants protect the caterpillar from predators. Ants probably tend the chrysalis too.
Adults drink nectar from flat-headed flowers. Caterpillars eat wild, leguminous plants such as bird's-foot trefoil, rest harrow and white clover.
I saw this Leonard's Skipper on the path sipping nutrients from the soil. I cautiously approached and discovered that some dirt and small pebbles were preventing me from getting a decent shot. I bent down and started clearing the dirt away and to my surprise this little skipper flew up and landed on my finger. It must have been some mighty tasty dirt because it stayed on my finger for quite some time. It was a wonderful experience to see a Leonard's Skipper this close up.
Baltimore County, Maryland
Hawthorn berries are tiny fruits that grow on trees and shrubs belonging to the Crataegus genus.
The genus includes hundreds of species commonly found in Europe, North America, and Asia.
These nutrient-rich berries have a tart, tangy taste and mild sweetness. They range in color from yellow to dark red (1Trusted Source).
For hundreds of years, people have used hawthorn berry as an herbal remedy for digestive problems, heart issues, and high blood pressure. In fact, the berry has been a key part of traditional Chinese medicine since at least 659 A.D. (1Trusted Source).
This damselfly is sitting on a seed bud when it opens, you can seet the seed here.
When a seed comes to rest in conditions suited to its germination, it breaks open and the embryo inside starts to grow.
Roots grow down to anchor the plant in the ground. Roots also take up water and nutrients and store food.
A shoot grows skyward and develops into a stem that carries water and nutrients from the roots to the rest of the plant. The stem also supports leaves so they can collect sunlight.
Leaves capture sunlight to make food for the plant through the process of photosynthesis.
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Photo : Genêt... Le Genêt à balais a longtemps été utilisé pour faire des brosses et balais. Le mot anglais pour balai broom est aussi le nom du genêt, et le mot genêt en breton "balan", ou peut-être en gaulois "balano", a donné le mot balai en français (cf. Wikipedia)
Foto: Retama… tras el incendio vuelve a brotar con más fuerza y aprovecha la luz y los nutrientes del terreno para florecer de nuevo y crear vida y belleza.
Brisk wind, cloudy day, and only 7 C... But there I was with Olymp looking at two pretty Weeping Willows next to the Canon-Pond. Some insects were out as well seeking nutrients.
Here's a Mining Bee (thanks to Bernhard Jacobi) braving the cold. He seems to be savoring nectar and not collecting pollen.
Flowers of Monotropastrum humile, which belongs to Ericaseae. Azaleas are typical members of Ericaseae. Monotropastrum humile is a parasitic plant, unable to perform photosynthesis, and receives nutrients from fungus. It is distributed in East and Central Asia. In Amami Oshima, Japan.
奄美大島で見たギンリョウソウです。
A tiny mushroom finds nutrients in the rotting end of an old wooden fence post.
For Looking Close on Friday theme 'Texture in Flora'.
The title is taken from the famous line used by Jeff Goldblum in the 1993 film Jurassic Park
The stone pine is also known as the "Queen of the Alps". This very old stone pine tree lost its crown probably when it was still young. Nevertheless, it managed to survive in these difficult conditions at 2016 m above sea level with metres of snow in winter. It grows on a rock without much soil underneath its roots. In order to get a good hold an enough water and nutrients from the soil, it has developed an enormous root system Even though it looks like it is growing on a poor site, it has chosen to grow on the most beautiful spot on this mountain lake 💕
The mountainlake "Obersee" is located on the border East Tyrol (Austria) with South Tyrol (Italy).
Sony Alpha 7III; Canon EF 16-35 mm f2.8 L II USM
Center focus on a Spot Swordtail in a sea of mud=puddling butterflies.
Wikipedia: Graphium nomius, the spot swordtail, is a butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia that belongs to the swallowtail family. The spot swordtail gets its name from the line of distinct white spots along the margin of its wings. It is known from southern and eastern India (including Sikkim and Assam), Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Kampuchea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphium_nomius
Mud-puddling, or simply puddling, is a behavior most conspicuous in butterflies, but occurs in other animals as well, mainly insects; they seek out nutrients in certain moist substances such as rotting plant matter, mud and carrion and they suck up the fluid. Where the conditions are suitable, conspicuous insects such as butterflies commonly form aggregations on wet soil, dung or carrion. From the fluids they obtain salts and amino acids that play various roles in their physiology, ethology and ecology. This behavior also has been seen in some other insects, notably the leafhoppers, e.g. the potato leafhopper, Empoasca fabae.
Arroyo
... el torrente corria fuerte por el bosque, regando las riveras de agua cristalina y rica en nutrientes minerales, los arboles, la vegetacion, los musgos , liquenes, helechos... sigue su camino dibujando bellas y refrescantes imagenes ...
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stream
... the torrent ran strong through the forest, watering the banks of crystalline water rich in mineral nutrients, the trees, the vegetation, the mosses, lichens, ferns ... it continues on its way drawing beautiful and refreshing images ...
Algae become over-abundant when the water has too much of the nutrients that algae need for growth, a process called nutrient enrichment or eutrophication. Just as nutrient-rich fertilizers help plants grow in our farms and gardens, nutrients in the water cause algae to grow. Nutrients can come from non-point sources, such as fertilizers, sediment, and natural organic matter in stormwater runoff, or from point sources such as wastewater treatment plant effluent.
@Stoever's Dam Park-Lebanon, PA
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The Small Pool Frog (Rana lessonae)
As the name suggests, the small water frog is our smallest water frog species. It is usually grass-green in colour, but there are also blue-green and brown variants. Habitats tend to be smaller and nutrient-poor bodies of water such as forest ponds.
The females grow to 5 to 7.5 centimetres, the males are somewhat smaller on average at 4.5 to 6.5 centimetres.
photo ist taken with a historical lens, which I removed from a night vision device
Cistanche is a worldwide genus of holoparasitic desert plants in the family Orobanchaceae. They lack chlorophyll and obtain nutrients and water from the host plants whose roots they parasitize. (Wikipedia)
Merzouga, Morocco. March 2019.
Stanislaus National Forest, CA
The snow plant is a rare beauty, protected from collection and destruction by California law. It is bright red and fleshy. It gets water and nutrients from fungi connected to tree roots.
Rothschild's swordtail (left) and other butterfly eating minerals on river bank in Manu National Park.
Mud-puddling, or simply puddling, is a behaviour most conspicuous in butterflies, but occurs in other animals as well, mainly insects; they seek out nutrients in certain moist substances such as rotting plant matter, mud and carrion and they suck up the fluid. Where the conditions are suitable, conspicuous insects such as butterflies commonly form aggregations on wet soil, dung or carrion. From the fluids they obtain salts and amino acids that play various roles in their physiology, ethology and ecology.
Protesilaus earis, the Rothschild's swordtail, is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical realm.
Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, Manú National Park
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At the moment I am living and breathing fungi. Actually we are all inhaling about 10 fungal spores with every breath. That shows how ubiquitous fungi are. I feel a sense of wonder when I find another beautiful mushroom. Sometimes they are quite small and you have to get close to appreciate their beauty. The cap of the Golden-scruffy Collybia in the photo is no more than 2.5 cm (1 inch) across. Like many fungi it grows on fallen trees and helps to return vital nutrients to the soil. Cyptotrama asprata is widely distributed in tropical regions of the world. It is absent from Europe and Northwestern North America.
'Everything should be in moderation’ goes the old line, meaning don’t binge and don’t abstain, but do take it easy on the bad stuff. Carbohydrates are necessary nutrients as they can provide proper fuel when done in moderation.
Happy Sunday all!
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the sporophyte is the dominant phase. Ferns have complex leaves called megaphylls, that are more complex than the microphylls of clubmosses. Most ferns are leptosporangiate ferns, sometimes referred to as true ferns. They produce coiled fiddleheads that uncoil and expand into fronds. The group includes about 10,560 known extant species. Ferns are defined here in the broad sense, being all of the Polypodiopsida, comprising both the leptosporangiate (Polypodiidae) and eusporangiate ferns, the latter itself comprising ferns other than those denominated true ferns, including horsetails or scouring rushes, whisk ferns, marattioid ferns, and ophioglossoid ferns. Ferns are not of major economic importance, but some are used for food, medicine, as biofertilizer, as ornamental plants and for remediating contaminated soil. 29578
I got lucky on a trip to Fermyn Woods, Northants, this morning, finding this spectacular butterfly on the ground, taking salts and nutrients from.... some dog poo.
Aechmea nudicaulis is a bromeliad species in the genus Aechmea, which is often used as an ornamental plant. This species is native to Central America, the West Indies, central and southern Mexico, and northern and central South America. A number of cultivars derived from this species are commercially available. These are either selected forms, or hybrids arising from crosses with other species. These epiphytes do not take nutrients from the host tree but obtain most of their water and nutrients from the urn created by the rosette of leaves. This is a most attractive plant with pale green arching leaves and a spike with large red bracts and greeny yellow flowers during spring and summer. Once the plant has flowered it will produce pups around the base of the plant. The pups will take nutrients from the dying parent plant and can be removed and replanted when they reach about a third of the parent. 20512
Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego - Ushuaia - Provincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur - ARGENTINA
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CUANDO NO SE MIDEN LAS CONSECUENCIAS... LA NATURALEZA ES LA QUE SE PERJUDICA
En 1946 se introdujeron en Tierra del Fuego 25 parejas de castores con fines peleteros, intento de producción nunca alcanzado.
Sin predadores, que los combatieran, ni competidores naturales y en un ambiente similar al propio, la especie colonizó exitosamente el ecosistema fueguino.
Hoy ocupan casi todas las cuencas del Archipiélago Fueguino en Argentina y Chile.
IMPACTOS GENERADOS POR LA ACTIVIDAD DEL CASTOR SOBRE EL ECOSISTEMA
Los castores cortan árboles para alimentarse de sus hojas y cortezas; para gastar sus dientes de crecimiento continuo; y para construir los diques, que al retener sedimentos, materia orgánica y agua, modifican la dinámica natural de los ríos y arroyos y el ciclo de nutrientes, produciendo la desaparición de extensas áreas boscosas.
VULNERABILIDAD DE LOS BOSQUES EN TIERRA DEL FUEGO
Los árboles de los bosques fueguinos, a diferencia de los que conviven con el castor en su lugar de origen, no pueden rebrotar una vez que han sido cortados ni están adaptados a sobrevivir en ambientes inundados, por lo cual, una vez formado el embalse, mueren los ejemplares que quedan dentro.
A solitary pansy ekes out an existence in a narrow crack between the paving stones where ants have disturbed the soil below allowing it to find enough nutrients to survive.
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the sporophyte is the dominant phase. Ferns have complex leaves called megaphylls, that are more complex than the microphylls of clubmosses. Most ferns are leptosporangiate ferns, sometimes referred to as true ferns. They produce coiled fiddleheads that uncoil and expand into fronds. The group includes about 10,560 known extant species. Ferns are defined here in the broad sense, being all of the Polypodiopsida, comprising both the leptosporangiate (Polypodiidae) and eusporangiate ferns, the latter itself comprising ferns other than those denominated true ferns, including horsetails or scouring rushes, whisk ferns, marattioid ferns, and ophioglossoid ferns. Ferns are not of major economic importance, but some are used for food, medicine, as biofertilizer, as ornamental plants and for remediating contaminated soil. 36686
Paepalanthus actinocephaloides.
Plant known as "Sempre Viva", inhabits the rocky fields above 1000 meters in shallow soil, acidic, low in nutrients and low water retention.
"Sempre Vivas" National Park, Conceição do Mato Dentro, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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* EXPLORE, Marzo 2023.
* Las Islas Cíes, Ría de Vigo. Provincia de Pontevedra. Galicia. España.
* Las Islas Cíes forman un Paraíso natural en la Ría de Vigo. Habitualmente las aguas que rodean las Cíes son visitadas por delfines, ballenas y tortugas marinas.
El sistema de circulación de aguas que entran y salen de las rías gallegas y la mezcla de agua dulce y salada favorecen la concentración de nutrientes y microorganismos que suponen fuente de alimento al resto de las especies marinas.
Se puede observar también en estos fondos marinos restos arqueológicos
* Continúo trayendo a mi memoria los versos lindos del Premio Nóbel, Juan Ramón Jiménez de su corpus poético “El amor en el mar”
No
El mar dice un momento
que sí, pasando yo.
No, ¡no!, ¡¡non!!, ¡¡¡no!!!, cada vez más
fuerte, con la noche…
Se van uniendo
las negaciones suyas, como olas,
— ¡no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!—
y, pasado, todo él, allá hacia el este,
es un inmenso, negro, duro y frío
¡no!
(JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ. El amor en el mar.)
The mushrooms in the photo were found in the high altitude tundra in the Yukon Territory, Canada. They are possibly Russula emetica which is a colourful but inedible fungus, otherwise known as the "vomiting Russula" .
Russula species are thought to be mycorrhizal.
In other words they form a beneficial (mutualistic) association with the roots of woody and herbaceous plants. The fungus facilitates the uptake of nutrients (particularly phosphates) by plant roots. In return the fungus receives sugars (energy) from the plant.
For more information see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula_emetica
Photo taken August 2019, Yukon, Canada.
Camera: Olypus EM5 MkII
Lens: Meyer Optik Görlitz Oreston 50/1.8 (1960's twin zebra version; M42)
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It's a very caustic plant, Euphorbia characias; its white latex causes blistering and a whole variety of stomach ailments. In The Netherlands it's appropriately known as Heksenmelk, Witch's Milk. But the green flowers provide nutrients to many insects among which this pretty Comma Hoverfly, an Eupeodes.
I saw it in the new street gardens along the buildings of the Muiderstraat. Those gardens make it a delight to walk the former terribly gray traverse from the traffic lights of the Valkenburgerstraat to the Botanical Garden.
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the sporophyte is the dominant phase. Ferns have complex leaves called megaphylls, that are more complex than the microphylls of clubmosses. Most ferns are leptosporangiate ferns, sometimes referred to as true ferns. They produce coiled fiddleheads that uncoil and expand into fronds. The group includes about 10,560 known extant species. Ferns are defined here in the broad sense, being all of the Polypodiopsida, comprising both the leptosporangiate (Polypodiidae) and eusporangiate ferns, the latter itself comprising ferns other than those denominated true ferns, including horsetails or scouring rushes, whisk ferns, marattioid ferns, and ophioglossoid ferns. Ferns are not of major economic importance, but some are used for food, medicine, as biofertilizer, as ornamental plants and for remediating contaminated soil. 19636
Limenitis populi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Papilionoidea▸Nymphalidae▸Limenitidinae▸Limenitidini
Poplar admiral (EN), Großer Eisvogel (DE)
While not very appetizing for us humans, many species of butterflies enjoy the nutrients contained within animal waste.
Photo captured in the wild, under natural light, in Austria.
The waratah is a flower of the Telopea species. This red flowering tree belongs in the Proteaceae plant family – meaning they have special ‘proteid’ root systems designed to survive in nutrient-deficient soil. In spring, they produce their signature bright red flowers (although some cultivars bloom in while, pink, or yellow) – or clusters of flowers, actually! Each ‘conflorescence’ is made up of tens to hundreds more flowers, all arranged around a centre.