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I'm sure the spider who owns this web was aiming to catch something a little more nutritious, however the mist this morning had other ideas. I'm just addicted to water drops in spider webs....
Hopefully there was something a little more nutritious at the other ends of that grass to help this young Grizzly Bear put on the fat she will need to survive the long and cold Yellowstone winter.
Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) feeding on eucalyptus in the Australia Outback habitat of the San Diego Zoo.
Koalas prefer the more nutritious leaves at the top of the trees, usually eating one leaf at a time. Of the nearly 900 species of Eucalyptus in Australia, koalas eat approximately 70.
Conservation status: Vulnerable
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Today is a purple or pink day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Smile on Saturday is : picture with added text. Which is great since I have a something very important to say … My message is : save an egg, crack a smile ! Yes, my friends, we have to be very nice to eggs. Eggs are unique and have an awesome personality: they make amazing photo models ! And they are very nutritious ! So please be nice and kind to eggs ! I hope my picture will make you smile ! I had a great time taking this picture and I was very happy that I had to use my « raw » (it is a squishy toy) egg once again !
I have to apologize since yesterday, I had a spontaneous visite from my parents with some spontaneous wine and whiskey (for my husband)… so I didn’t had enough time to answer all your comments (and of course I have a mandatory weekend’s hungover ! Isn’t that great ? LOL). And since we had such awesome time with my parents, we decided to had a blast at a restaurant today’s with my in-laws. So, basically I will be away from Flickr for the weekend.
Mucho, mucho amor for you all !! Have a beautiful day !
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Rapeseed oil is one of the oldest known vegetable oils. There are both edible and industrial forms produced from rapeseed, the seed of several cultivars of the plant family Brassicaceae. Historically, it was eaten in limited quantities due to high levels of erucic acid, which is damaging to the cardiac muscle of animals and imparts a bitter taste, and glucosinolates, which made it less nutritious in animal feed.[1][2] Rapeseed oil can contain up to 54% erucic acid.[3]
From US Forest Service
The zebra longwing butterfly or zebra heliconian, Heliconius charithonia, is unmistakable with its long narrow wings, which are striped black and pale yellow. This species is common in Mexico and Central America and it is also found in most of Florida and in some areas of Texas, where it can be seen year round.
They fly slowly and gracefully and are not easily startled. They gather in roosts to spend the night returning to the same place daily; all this making it easy to observe them. After mating the female lays eggs on one of several species of passion flower plants Passiflora. The caterpillars feed on these plants and acquire some of their toxins; this makes them distasteful to predators. The striking colors and pattern of the adults advertise their toxicity (my addition - keeping predators away).
An unusual feature of the longwing, or heliconian, butterflies is that the adults are relatively long lived. Most other butterflies live only a few weeks, but heliconians continue to live and to lay eggs for several months. Their tropical or semitropical habitat makes this possible; furthermore the feeding habits of the adults are important in prolonging their lives. The adults feed on nectar of flowers, like most other butterflies, but a special characteristic of heliconian butterflies is that they can also feed on pollen.
Most butterflies can only sip fluids with their specialized mouth parts, but the heliconian butterflies take some pollen as well as nectar. Their saliva enables them to dissolve the pollen and to take their nutrients. Pollen is very nutritious, rich in proteins, unlike nectar which contains almost no proteins, just sugars. This diet allows the butterflies to prolong their lives and also enables them to continue producing eggs for several months. As a consequence they are more dependent on flowers than other types of butterflies and this makes them good pollinators.
Again, my addition - Here the Zebra is feeding on a Firebush.
I'll add a photo showing the full wing below. If you increase the photo above you can see the red dots close to the body of the Zebra.
Dendelions suffer from our dismissal and inattention of the ordinary, yet are hardly ordinary close in. Were they 2 feet tall with six inch blossoms there would be scores of cultivars and they would populate gardens. They are asters, important to early spring pollinators, and said to be nutritious, vitamin rich, perhaps even medicinal. We humans eradicate them with toxic enthusiasm from lawn and golf course, as though there is no cost for such activities, though, likely, there is. This one is off the beaten path, free to catch the sun and fulfill its role in nature unmolested.
Been a while since my last upload of an image...Upcoming new theme for the Macro Mondays Group will be #blue - first of all...no worries my friends...this is an older image taken back in 2022. Of course i will share an actual image with you all. But i thought i upload this one too. :)
Blueberries are very healthy. The little helpers are just about gave a helping hand to supply themselves with the important vitamin C later on.
10 Proven Health Benefits of Blueberries
1. Blueberries Are Low in Calories But High in Nutrients
2. Blueberries are the King of Antioxidant Foods
3. Blueberries Reduce DNA Damage, Which May Help Protect Against Aging and Cancer
4. Blueberries Protect Cholesterol in Your Blood From Becoming Damaged
5. Blueberries May Lower Blood Pressure
6. Blueberries May Help Prevent Heart Disease
7. Blueberries Can Help Maintain Brain Function and Improve Memory
8. Anthocyanins in Blueberries May Have Anti-Diabetes Effects
9. May Help Fight Urinary Tract Infections
10. Blueberries May Reduce Muscle Damage After Strenuous Exercise
The Bottom Line.......
Blueberries are incredibly healthy and nutritious.
They boost your heart health, brain function and numerous other aspects of your body.
What’s more, they’re sweet, colorful and easily enjoyed either fresh or frozen.
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At this time of the year the blueberries harvest is in the very late phase. The little helpers are just about to collect the very last blueberries to supply themselves with the important vitamin C later on in autumn.
10 Proven Health Benefits of Blueberries
1. Blueberries Are Low in Calories But High in Nutrients
2. Blueberries are the King of Antioxidant Foods
3. Blueberries Reduce DNA Damage, Which May Help Protect Against Aging and Cancer
4. Blueberries Protect Cholesterol in Your Blood From Becoming Damaged
5. Blueberries May Lower Blood Pressure
6. Blueberries May Help Prevent Heart Disease
7. Blueberries Can Help Maintain Brain Function and Improve Memory
8. Anthocyanins in Blueberries May Have Anti-Diabetes Effects
9. May Help Fight Urinary Tract Infections
10. Blueberries May Reduce Muscle Damage After Strenuous Exercise
The Bottom Line.......
Blueberries are incredibly healthy and nutritious.
They boost your heart health, brain function and numerous other aspects of your body.
What’s more, they’re sweet, colorful and easily enjoyed either fresh or frozen.
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Blue jays are famous for finding and caching fallen acorns in the fall, burying the nutritious nuts underground for a future food source. They are credited with spreading the oak savanna onto the expansive prairie in prehistoric times, since they'd forget where they planted a few of those stored acorns every autumn.
Short-grass plains thrive on the mineral-rich soil of the bowl’s floor, providing nutritious grazing for numerous herbivores. These large, mixed herds in turn attract an impressive density of predators.
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The Venus Flytrap (dionaea muscipulae) attracts his prey (flies, insects) using sweet nectar. Touch a trigger hair twice, or two hairs in quick succession, and an electric charge closes the trap, its interlocking teeth forming a cage. The insect's continued struggles will cause the trap to seal, at which point digestive enzymes will dissolve the victim's soft tissues. The trap reabsorbs this nutritious soup, and - after about a week - reopens.
This steely dark-eyed junco was all bundled up against the cold as it foraged through a weed patch looking for nutritious seeds on a day when the wind chill made it feel like it was below freezing outside.
A young bull moose wears part of its evening meal as a "hood ornament" as it blissfully feeds in a Colorado mountain lake. He was a very exuberant feeder as he happily munched and splashed about and was totally oblivious to us as we sat by the lake's shoreline.
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A male Red Crossbill enjoys a drink from the streams edge.
Crossbills are a fascinating finch of the coniferous woodlands, the Red Crossbill forages on nutritious seeds in hemlock, pine, spruce, Douglas-fir and hemlock. Their specialized bills allow them to break open unopened cones, giving them an advantage over other finch species. Red Crossbill's are so dependent upon conifer seeds that it even feeds them to its young. It breeds anytime it finds a sufficiently large cone crop, even in the depths of winter.
When the light reaches the throat of the Brazilian Ruby Hummingbird (male), the green feathers change to golden or to ruby depending on the angle you are looking and the angle the of the light itself.
In these two photos you can see part of the transformation: golden in the first photo and light ruby (something more similar to orange) in the second photo. But I assure to you that the throat really changes to vibrant ruby tone depending of the light and movement of the bird too.
7 fun facts about hummingbirds
1- The indigenous gave very suggestive names to the hummingbirds, which perfectly described these charming birds:
For the "Caraíbas indians", they were the “colibris”, which means “resplendent area”.
The "Tupis" called them “guainumbis”, that is, “sparkling birds”.
For the "Guarani indians", on the other hand, hummingbirds were the “mainumbis”, that is, “those who enchant, next to the flower, with its light and splendor”.
2- Its huge heart, which represents 19 to 22% of the total body weight, facilitates the rapid circulation of blood.
3- In a single day, they are able to ingest nutritious substances up to 8 times their body weight.
4- Some hummingbirds develop average speeds ranging from 30 to 70 km per hour and the vibration of the wings can reach 50 to 70 beats per second.
5- They are the only birds that can literally stand still in the air, take off and land vertically, and even reverse in mid-flight.
6- The spectacular color of hummingbirds originates from the phenomenon of refraction of light, through the microstructure of the feathers. The color changes, observed in the same bird, vary according to the angle of incidence of sunlight or the movement of the body.
7- They say that Igor Sirkorski, who invented the helicopter, based his ideas on the continuous observation of the flight of hummingbirds. However, the helicopter cannot fly upside down. Hummingbirds can.
American goldfinches all look alike now as the males are in their winter plumage. This goldfinch is dining on some nutritious Jerusalem artichoke seeds. Surprisingly, people can eat Jerusalem artichokes in the fall too if we dig up their starchy tubers.
It appears this ungrateful groundhog is sticking its tongue out at me, but if you look close you can see it is actually eating an acorn. From the looks of it, this one has already eaten its fair share of those nutritious fatty nuts.
Nine Egyptian Goose goslings 17 days after hatching actually seem to be growing on whatever’s nutritious in the grass. Haven’t seen them in the pond yet. Resoft County Park, Alvin, Texas. Hint: one gosling concealed by parent’s tail.
I often see black-capped chickadees enjoying the nutritious giant ragweed seeds and today I found a flock of American goldfinches feeding on them. Many people hate giant ragweed and eradicate the plants on sight since its pollen does cause hay fever in the fall - but that's a shame since giant ragweed seeds are so beneficial to local songbirds as they prepare for a long hard winter ahead.
Especially in autumn, when hardly any flowers are to be expected on our cacti, the Lithops come into their own, for then most species of this genus flower.
But one plant from this family shows its flower, predominantly already at the end of May to the beginning of June, the species pseudotruncatella. That is why I would like to introduce it today.
Lithops comes from Latin and means "stone", which gave it the colloquial name "living stone".
In nature, they have good chances of survival due to their camouflaged appearance.
The shape and grain came about through natural selection (convergence), an adaptation to the environment in stony terrain. This change is due to animals searching for something moist and nutritious in the dry areas. The solution, only those who are poorly seen survive. And besides, due to its shallow entry into the ground, this plant has hardly any evaporation surface, which protects it from the scorching sun.
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Broad-handed leafcutters are one of the biggest leaf-cutter bee species. Males have a large fuzzy fringe on their foreleg - his "broad" hands. This mother is gathering pollen that she will mold into a nutritious bread-like loaf for her larvae to feed on once they hatch from their leafy nest cells hidden in an underground tunnel. Last summer's larvae have pupated now and are waiting for next summer's warm weather to emerge as adults.
When i first thought about this weeks theme i stumbled over my passion over the last 12 months - which is chocolate. So i decided to take a photograph about chocolate according to this happy Song called "Chocolate (choco choco)" ! I want to send out some joy and happiness in these days.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWy1w7WXeq0
Lots of people say that chocolate is healthy..so here are 7 benefits of chocolate:
1. Very Nutritious
2. Powerful Source of Antioxidants
3. May Improve Blood Flow and Lower Blood Pressure
4. Raises HDL and Protects LDL From Oxidation
5. May Reduce Heart Disease Risk
6. May Protect Your Skin From the Sun
7. Could Improve Brain Function
last but not least...it let`s you feel sexy :)
So why not give it a try :)
#macromondays #lockdownsong
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This is the little beastie that produces Goldenrod galls — The Goldenrod Gall Fly (Eurosta solidaginis). This fly is native to North America, and is only alive for two weeks, when they mate, and then lay the next season's eggs in mid-spring, on the stems of Goldenrod plants. Eggs hatch in 7 days and the larvae starts eating. The larvae are the source of the galls that become their food source and host plant over the winter. The larvae climb up the stalk to below the plants buds and introduces a chemical that starts the gall growing. They then bore into the gall and create a chamber to live in over the long winter. Early spring songbirds are well aware of this behaviour, and search out the galls for easy meals. So when you find a gall that has been pecked into, you know that a bird has feasted on some good nutritious Gall fly larvae. A 5-image, handheld stack.
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The Zebras are back.
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From US Forest Service
The zebra longwing butterfly or zebra heliconian, Heliconius charithonia, is unmistakable with its long narrow wings, which are striped black and pale yellow. This species is common in Mexico and Central America and it is also found in most of Florida and in some areas of Texas, where it can be seen year round.
They fly slowly and gracefully and are not easily startled. They gather in roosts to spend the night returning to the same place daily; all this making it easy to observe them. After mating the female lays eggs on one of several species of passion flower plants Passiflora. The caterpillars feed on these plants and acquire some of their toxins; this makes them distasteful to predators. The striking colors and pattern of the adults advertise their toxicity (my addition - keeping predators away).
An unusual feature of the longwing, or heliconian, butterflies is that the adults are relatively long lived. Most other butterflies live only a few weeks, but heliconians continue to live and to lay eggs for several months. Their tropical or semitropical habitat makes this possible; furthermore the feeding habits of the adults are important in prolonging their lives. The adults feed on nectar of flowers, like most other butterflies, but a special characteristic of heliconian butterflies is that they can also feed on pollen.
Most butterflies can only sip fluids with their specialized mouth parts, but the heliconian butterflies take some pollen as well as nectar. Their saliva enables them to dissolve the pollen and to take their nutrients. Pollen is very nutritious, rich in proteins, unlike nectar which contains almost no proteins, just sugars. This diet allows the butterflies to prolong their lives and also enables them to continue producing eggs for several months. As a consequence they are more dependent on flowers than other types of butterflies and this makes them good pollinators.
Again, my addition - Here the Zebra is feeding on a Firebush.
Spring in Montana. Arrowleaf balsamroot ( Balsamorhiza sagittata) is a stunning flower, a nutritious food, and potent herbal medicine that grows all over western North America.
A North American Elk (Cervus canadensis) bull browses on the leaves of a Poplar or Trembling Aspen Tree growing along a sandy ridge by the Athabasca River. It feeds heavily on what ever is nutritious and available in an effort to regain some of the weight it lost during the rigorous breeding season in the Rocky Mountain region of Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
There is alot of stress on these bulls, especially the more dominant bulls, in warding off competitors as well as herding his females which results in a loss of fat reserves put on during the summer. If it does not replenish these fat reserves and it is a severe winter, a number of these bulls with not survive. It is the natural way of maintaining the strong for the survival of the species.
26 October, 2012.
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A Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) wades through the shallow waters of a prairie wetland east of Brooks, Alberta, Canada in search of some nutritious items to feed upon.
16 May, 2013.
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The American goldfinches are all wearing their dull olive winter plumage now which helps the males as well as the females blend in with the background as they feed on these nutritious sawtooth sunflower seeds that grow wild on area prairies.
Swamp Smoothies "green Smoothies" typically have raw rotted fruits, vegetables, algae, tadpoles, minnows, protozoa, gator bits, snake skin, and fresh tea colored water.
Highly nutritious smoothies include dietary fiber (e.g. pulp, skin, and seeds) and are thicker than fruit juice, often with a consistency similar to a milkshake.
A male Red Crossbill at Bogus Basin near Boise, Idaho
"A fascinating finch of coniferous woodlands, the Red Crossbill forages on nutritious seeds in pine, hemlock, Douglas-fir, and spruce cones. Their specialized bills allow them to break into unopened cones, giving them an advantage over other finch species.
A crossbill's odd bill shape helps it get into tightly closed cones. A bird's biting muscles are stronger than the muscles used to open the bill, so the Red Crossbill places the tips of its slightly open bill under a cone scale and bites down. The crossed tips of the bill push the scale up, exposing the seed inside."
"If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads."
Anatole France
In this case the path seems to lead only to a corral :))
The beautiful and slender trees that you can see beyond the corral are of the Araucaria species.
Araucaria (scientific name: Araucaria angustifolia) is the arboreal species that occurs mainly in the southern region of Brazil, but is also found in the east and south of the state of São Paulo, south of the state of Minas Gerais, mainly in the Serra da Mantiqueira, in the Mountain region of the state of Rio de Janeiro and in small stretches of Argentina and Paraguay. It is known by many popular names, including Brazilian pine and Paraná pine, but also called by its indigenous name, Curi.
Its origin dates back more than 200 million years, since the American and African continents were united, and later it was spread throughout South America, from Argentina to the Brazilian Northeast.
This conifer can reach heights of 50 m, with a trunk diameter at chest height of 2.5 m. Its shape is unique in the Brazilian landscape, resembling a cup. Occupying an original area of 200,000 km², from the 19th century it was intensively exploited for its high economic value, providing very useful wood and nutritious seeds, and today its territory is reduced to a tiny fraction, which according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) puts the Araucaria in Critical Danger of Extinction.
The female flowers are popularly known as pine cones, and the male ones are cylindrical cones with scales.
Araucarias have no real fruit; the pseudo-fruits are grouped in cones which, when ripe, assume a spherical shape, with a diameter of about 15 to 30 cm, and can weigh up to 5 kg.
The seeds (pine nuts) are conical and brown in color, have about 5 cm in length, average weight of 8.7 g, and hide an almond of great nutritional value.
These seeds were part of the diet of the indigenous people who occupied the southern region of Brazil and saved many Italian immigrant families from starvation at the end of the 19th century, when colonization in the South began under extremely precarious conditions, in natura or processed into flour, bread and pasta. Currently, pine nuts are a way of aggregating income for small rural producers, helping to settle man on the land. Pine nuts are preferably consumed baked or cooked, but with pine nuts it is possible to make bread and cakes. It can also be used for the preparation of souffles, rolls and puddings and has arrived in contemporary cuisine where "Trout Fillet with Pine Nut Sauce" has become one of the most popular dishes.
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Red-bellied woodpeckers are busy caching acorns out in the woods now before that nutritious crop has been cleaned up by almost every other hungry woodland critter. That hidden fat source could be critical to their survival this winter if the weather turns severely cold.
Luang Prabang, Laos - Villagers are collecting Spirogyra sp in science. Can be found in the Mekong River.
This oblique longhorn is a big hefty and shaggy-looking yet beautiful bee. They are sometimes called the sunflower bee since they specialize in collecting pollen from yellow "sunflowers" but this one is pollinating a gray-headed coneflower, which is in the huge sunflower family. Females will dig a tunnel several inches deep underground before collecting a bunch of sunflower pollen and nectar that she forms into a big ball at the bottom of her nest chamber. That nutritious pollen ball will serve as a food source for her baby since she lays an egg on top and then abandons the nest. After eating its big pollen ball, the larval longhorn bee pupates and emerges from its burrow as a fresh adult the following year when the sunflowers are in full bloom on area prairies.
It is indeed a way of life, and a veritable nutritious feast, for the countless millions of microbes feeding away on this once-perfectly functioning leaf. That's life. And death.
London Plane leaf.
Olympus EM1+ Olympus 12-50 mm.
Red-bellied woodpeckers are filling those red bellies with acorns these days as area bur oaks are dropping their bountiful nutritious crops now. They compete with almost every other bird and animal in the area for those tasty acorn treats.
Nowhere is the cycle of life more evident than in the various rain forests that are found on the Olympic Peninsula. Here, the Quinault Rain Forest shows the catastrophic effects of the tumultuous force of the weather. Scattered about the understory of the forest are huge trees that have been sheared from the violent storms that plummet the area. Yet despite the destruction, the plant life is thriving on the nutritious decay of these mighty giants--there truly is life after death.
Quinault WA
Bees vital to stable, healthy food supplies and key to the varied, colourful and nutritious diets we need - essential to feed the world. Save bees, save the ecosystem and save the earth, because we have #OnlyOneEarth.
Lalmatia, Dhaka
Native & cultivated small trees and shrubs in the Viburnum (Viburnum spp.) genus produce some of the best berries for migrating and over-wintering birds.
Viburnum berries are high in fats, carbohydrates and protein making them a nutritious and valuable food source for our winged friends when grubs, insects and other food sources are gone.
Black-capped chickadees really chow down on giant ragweed seeds right now as they ripen up. Surprisingly, these seeds are bigger than black oil sunflower seeds and are packed with power - 47% protein and 38% fat - and are more nutritious than soybeans. Archaeological evidence shows that prehistoric people even collected and consumed giant ragweed seeds in quantity hundreds if not thousands of years ago.
Bees play an important role in the pollination of flowering plants, and are the main type of pollinator in ecosystems that contain flowering plants. ... A small number of plants produce nutritious floral oils instead of pollen, which are collected using this type of bees.
Las abejas desempeñan un papel importante en la polinización de las plantas con flores, y son el principal tipo de polinizador en los ecosistemas que contienen plantas con flores. ... Un pequeño número de plantas producen aceites florales nutritivos en lugar de polen, que se recolectan utilizando este tipo de abejas.
Eucalyptus is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including Corymbia, they are commonly known as eucalypts. Plants in the genus Eucalyptus have bark that is either smooth, fibrous, hard or stringy, leaves with oil glands, and sepals and petals that are fused to form a cap or operculum over the stamens. The fruit is a woody capsule commonly referred to as a gumnut. Most species of Eucalyptus are native to Australia, and every state and territory has representative species. About three-quarters of Australian forests are eucalypt forests. Wildfire is a feature of the Australian landscape and many eucalypt species are adapted to fire, and resprout after fire or have seeds which survive fire. A few species are native to islands north of Australia and a smaller number are only found outside the continent. Eucalypts have been grown in plantations in many other countries because they are fast growing and have valuable timber, or can be used for pulpwood, for honey production or essential oils. In some countries, however, they have been removed because they are highly flammable. 29926