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75 King St W, Gananoque, Ontario K7G 2G2, Canada
Our stone landmark mansion houses one of the finest Bed & breakfast accommodations in Gananoque. This charming B&B is located in the historic heart of Gananoque and the 1000 Islands region, only minutes away from the boatline, downtown shopping,marina,restaurants and other points of interest.
Beaver Hall is a unique Georgian-Victorian mansion, constructed in 1826 and renovated in 1870 with a metal Mansard roof and 13 dormers. In 2006 extensive restorations were recently completed to the exterior and interior of the house. The 6800 sq ft house is spacious; the atmosphere relaxed, casual and friendly. The service is helpful and unpretentious and our breakfast is hearty and nutritious.
I call this one a filagree lerp. Lerps are the covers that immature tree lice spin to protect themselves while growing. However, the lerps are highly nutritious and form the main diet for many small Australian native birds. If the lerp is picked off, the young louse (Psyllid) immediately begins spinning another. Two othe types of lerps found in the Australian Capital Territory can be seen at these sites:
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October, 2014.
iolana debilitata = iolana iolas (Ochsenheimer, 1816)
Espantalobos, Mariposa del espantalobos.
Colutea sp. (Colutea arborescens)
Esta bonita mariposa está considerada como el lepidóptero más raro y amenazado de nuestra fauna, teniendo en cuenta las dificultades de la espantalobos en nuestra geografía. Por estos lares ya hemos detectado su ausencia en algún lugar conocido al mismo tiempo que se ha mermado la presencia de su planta nutricia, Colutea arborescens, popularmente conocida como “espantalobos”.
Iolas Blue
This beautiful butterfly is considered the rarest and most threatened lepidopteran in our fauna, taking into account the difficulties of Iolas blue in our geography. In these parts we have already detected its absence in some known place, at the same time that the presence of its nutritious plant, Colutea arborescens, popularly known as "wolf scare," has diminished.
Azuré du baguenaudier
Ce beau papillon est considéré comme le lépidoptère le plus rare et le plus menacé de notre faune, compte tenu des difficultés de Azuré du baguenaudier dans notre géographie. Dans ces régions, nous avons déjà détecté son absence dans un endroit connu, en même temps que la présence de sa plante nutritive, Colutea arborescens, populairement connue sous le nom de «effrayer les loups», a diminué.
Everyone has been posting (and making Explore with them, I might add) hay bales. This is the SW GA version - peanut hay. It is rolled right after the peanuts are picked and makes very nutritious hay, which cows love. The litter on the ground is the remnant of the vines. Also we have a lot of clay in our soil around here making it reddish orange. I was on my way to town when I saw this and stopped on the spot because I have waited and thought to go back another time, and they had already moved the bales. I got dirt in my sandals trying to get this, but anything for a Flickr shot :-).
A finch of coniferous woodlands, this bird forages on nutritious seeds in pine, hemlock, Douglas-fir, and spruce cones. Their specialized bills allow them to break into unopened cones, They even feed their young seeds. They can nest any time of year where food is plentiful.
Red Crossbills are scarce as hen's teeth in Central Oklahoma and this is a new bird for our Oklahoma list. Hope we can relocate for more photos, but I'm not optimistic . Our beautiful world, pass it on.
This new parent is about to deliver a mouthful of nutritious food to the new-borns!
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These apples was a surprise to me as I have never seen them before, or may have seen it and not realised they are apples!
Gallinule feeding on Water Hyacinth. The invasive flower is considered non-nutritious. Maybe she’s dieting.
Gallinula galeata
From the recent archives: two years ago, we saw flocks of Pine Grosbeaks stopping for a few days to feed on crabapple and other fruit trees in town. This was an irruptive event, as their winter range is generally north of our location. Oddly, I didn't see any males, only females and immatures. Their markings are similar so I don't know which this is... maybe it's an immature female.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2014 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
flax, (Linum usitatissimum), plant of the family Linaceae, cultivated both for its fibre, from which linen yarn and fabric are made, and for its nutritious seeds, called flaxseed or linseed, from which linseed oil is obtained. Though flax has lost some of its value as a commercial fibre crop owing to the availability of synthetic fibres, flaxseed has grown in popularity as a health food, and flax remains economically significant in a number of countries around the world, including China, Russia, and Canada.
Physical description
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Flax is a herbaceous annual. When densely planted for fibre, plants average 0.9 to 1.2 metres (3 to 4 feet) in height, with slender stalks 2.5 to 4 mm (about 0.10 to 0.15 inch) in diameter and with branches concentrated at the top. Plants cultivated for seed are shorter and many-branched. The leaves, alternating on the stalk, are small and lance-shaped. The flowers, borne on stems growing from the branch tips, have five petals, usually blue in colour but sometimes white or pink. The fruits are small dry capsules composed of five lobes.https://www.britannica.com/plant/flax
A bee joins a Zebra Butterfly feasting on a Passion Fruit flower.
From Bug of the Week -
I had the opportunity to enjoy the antics of the remarkable zebra longwing, Heliconius charitonius, as it visited flowering trees and shrubs along a trail through a swampy forest. Tropical butterflies in the genus Heliconius, such as the zebra, are notable for their longevity. These beauties live up to six months. Zebras and their kin evolved an interesting strategy to gather nutritious pollen used to sustain their long lives. The zebra flies a well-defined route through the forest visiting flowers that present a fresh batch of pollen and nectar each day. This behavior is called traplining and is employed by many tropical pollinators including bees, hummingbirds, and bats.
After collecting a gob of pollen on its long, straw-like proboscis, the butterfly secretes specialized enzymes to release the amino acids and other nutrients in the pollen. The nutrients are absorbed through the membranes lining the proboscis and used to produce eggs and maintain the zebra’s high level of activity zooming about the forest. In addition to visiting flowers laden with pollen, the zebra also searches for different species of plants in the passion vine genus, Passiflora.
These tropical vines bear the magnificent passion flower and following pollination, the passion fruit. Several species of passion vine are used by the immature stages of the zebra and other Heliconius butterflies as a source of food. These voracious caterpillars consume great quantities of leafy tissue on a daily basis. As a group, passion fruit plants are protected from most leaf-munching caterpillars and other vegan insects by a veritable witch’s brew of highly toxic chemicals including alkaloids, a family of toxins that include strychnine and nicotine, and cyanogenic glycosides, chemicals that release cyanide upon entering the body. However, using some clever metabolic machinery, the specialized Heliconius butterflies have turned the tables on passion fruit plants and now feast on their leaves with impunity. With so much munching by the larvae of the zebras and their kin, one wonders how the vines of Passiflora survive.
From the butterfly breeder/photographer - the passion fruit vines act as a 'host' for the zebra butterflies. I have many of those as well as Firebush which the butterfly enjoys. Adult zebra longwing butterflies feed on both flower nectar and pollen. The additional nutrients from the pollen enable individuals to survive for several months, far exceeding the normal two to four week adult life span of most other butterflies. Adult individuals often form small communal roosts at night. Sometimes they swarm around me - the first time they did that I was shocked.
Yes I was out in a preserve looking for a zebra on a passionflower when I took this photo - the bee was an 'extra'.
BTW - since this was photographed with an R7 - this telephoto shot (hand-held) was at over 500mm.
From the Florida Times Union :
...you’ve probably seen the flight of the distinctive black butterfly with bold yellow stripes, the zebra longwing butterfly (Heliconius charithonis). Since 1996, it has been the Florida state butterfly. What you discovered is the mature larvae feeding on its host plant, one of many species of passionflower.
You really can’t confuse it with any other Florida butterfly. This impressive 2 1/2- to 4-inch flyer with its striking pattern prefers warm, damp, tropical hammocks and thickets. Just the conditions most of the state provides, especially central and south Florida.
Me under this giant Baobab tree..............(credit Leo)
Adansonia digitata trees figure prominently into the cultures of people who live where it grows.
From highly nutritious food products, to fiber, medicine, water storage and animal forage, Baobab has earned the moniker “Tree of Life”.
Traditional African animist spiritual belief most often incorporates the Earth’s natural provenance, and infuses it with ritual; Baobabs represent ancient settlements, and the spirits of their ancestral owners become part of the trees. Often, animal skulls, wooden ‘fetiche’ assemblies, tokens of the harvest and other significant items can be seen attached to the trunks or amassed at the foot of the trees. Village meetings and ceremonial rites of passage integrate the Baobab.
Perico - Lucina - Papallona de la prímula.
Dentro de los ropaloceros (lepidópteros diurnos) está la familia Riodinidae cuya única especie presente en Europa es la Hamearis lucina. En puntos junto al mediterráneo es univoltina, entre Mayo y Junio por la duración de la planta nutricia. Parece ser que en otros lugares más frescos puede haber dos generaciones, entre Abril a Junio la primera, y entre Julio y Septiembre la segunda, según la presencia de las correspondientes nutricias que principalmente se limitan a Prímula veris y P. vulgaris.
Duke of Burgundy fritillary
Within the ropaloceros (diurnal lepidoptera) is the family Riodinidae whose only species present in Europe is Hamearis lucina. At points along the Mediterranean it is univoltine, between May and June for the duration of the nutritious plant. In other cooler places there may be two generations, between April and June the first, and between July and September the second, depending on the presence of the corresponding nutrients that are mainly limited to Primrose veris, and possibly P. vulgaris.
Lucine
Au sein des ropaloceros (lépidoptères diurnes) se trouve la famille des Riodinidae dont la seule espèce présente en Europe est Hamearis lucina. Aux points le long de la Méditerranée, il est univoltine, entre mai et juin pour la durée de la plante nutritive. Dans d'autres endroits plus frais, il peut y avoir deux générations, entre avril et juin la première, et entre juillet et septembre la seconde, selon la présence des nutriments correspondants qui sont principalement limités à Primrose veris, et éventuellement P. vulgaris.
Back in the day, the fields of California were so full of chia that in some places nothing else was able to grow. Growing each year from seed, the one-and-a-half-foot-tall plants produced nutritious seeds that served as a staple food for native Californians for millennia. Indigenous cooks cleaned the chia seeds, then roasted them by heating rocks and placing them in baskets with the seeds. Sometimes they were simply ground and eaten dry by hand, a food surprisingly rich in complex carbohydrates, oil and protein.
It's delicious! It's nutritious! It's the new nectar of the gods! Yes indeedy - champagne and carrot juice!!! Chock full of vitamins and what a kick!
Er, well, it sounds like one helluva thing to do to champagne but, after all, Bellinis are champagne and peach juice and they're fab. If anyone tries this new drink and lives to tell about it, please let us know how it is. :-o
Taking today off.. no blog posts! Just waiting for Venom to wake up so we can share this nutritious breakfast <3
Rosenkohl ist gesund und nahrhaft. So enthalten 100 Gramm gekochter Rosenkohl lediglich 30 kcal/124 kJ, liefern zugleich aber viele wichtige Nährstoffe. Das Kreuzblütler-Gemüse hat einen hohen Vitamingehalt (hauptsächlich Vitamin A und C), ist reich an Mineralstoffen (Eisen, Kalium, Kalzium und Magnesium) und enthält Glukosinolate, die als sekundärer Pflanzenstoff das Risiko für eine Reihe von Krebserkrankungen senken.
Brussels sprouts are healthy and nutritious. 100 grams of cooked Brussels sprouts contain only 30 kcal/124 kJ, but at the same time provide many important nutrients. The cruciferous vegetable is high in vitamins (mainly vitamins A and C), rich in minerals (iron, potassium, calcium and magnesium) and contains glucosinolates, which are phytochemicals that reduce the risk of a number of cancers.
Para empezar bien el mes de
encierro un poco de dulce viene bien.
To start the month of confinement well a little bit of sweet comes in handy.
A willow flycatcher (i believe) gives a backward glance as it rests a few moments midst constant activity catching nutritious flying insects
I believe this could be the cutest silo ever painted.
This is located on an actual working farm.
In agriculture, a silo is a structure, typically a tall cylinder, used for storing bulk materials, most commonly for storing fermented feed called silage. Silage is made from chopped, fermented plant material, often grass or corn, and provides a nutritious feed for livestock, particularly during seasons when fresh feed is scarce.
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Fully fledged and sitting on the wire with its sibling - out of the picture, to the right - this young Eastern Kingbird is still dependent on its parents for a nonstop flow of fast food. Today, grasshoppers are on the menu. Well, I have eaten grasshoppers and they're not bad!
Prodigious long distance flyers, these tyrant flycatchers winter in South America. I expect to see them returning to breed on the northern prairie in about three months.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2017 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Tiny Sisymbrium officinale down through the ages has been hailed as a plant which, made into a syrup, heals hoarseness and other voice problems. In French one of its names is 'Herbe aux chantres', and Jacques Daléchamps (1513-1588) recommends it especially to choir boys. Our Bee, though, is voiceless but gathers from Hedge Mustard nutritious pollens.
A male House Finch expertly cracks a sunflower seed with its bill and extracts the nutritious interior with its tongue. It only takes a few seconds. The female is on the other side of the flower, you might see the top of her head and her eye on the left.
Abencerraje del tomillo - Blaveta de la farigola.
Entre los licénidos es de los más pequeños de tamaño junto a Cupido mínimus. Su presencia univoltina es primaveral y transcurre siempre en torno a su planta nutricia, Thymus sp. (Tomillo silvestre).
Panoptes blue
Among the lichenids it is one of the smallest in size along with Cupido minimus. Its univoltine presence is springtime and always passes around its nutritious plant, Thymus sp. (Wild thyme).
Parmi les lichénidés, il est l'un des plus petits avec Cupido minimus. Sa présence univoltine est printanière et se déroule toujours autour de sa plante nutritive, Thymus sp. (Thym sauvage).
Another one from the archives. Taken at Pere Marquette Park in Muskegon, Michigan. Was feeding him Doritos. Thinking next time I'll try something a little more nutritious, like regular bird seed, but I may not get the same results :-}}}
South Africa
Near Kruger National Park
The common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) is a wild member of the pig family (Suidae) found in grassland, savanna, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.
The common warthog is the only pig species that has adapted to grazing and savanna habitats. Its diet is omnivorous, composed of grasses, roots, berries and other fruits, bark, fungi, insects, eggs and carrion. During the wet seasons, warthogs graze on short perennial grasses. During the dry seasons, they subsist on bulbs, rhizomes, and nutritious roots.
Although they can dig their own burrows, they commonly occupy abandoned burrows of aardvarks and other animals. The common warthog reverses into burrows, with its head facing the opening and ready to burst out if necessary.
Although capable of fighting (males aggressively fight each other during mating season), the common warthog's primary defense is to flee by means of fast sprinting. The common warthog's main predators are humans, lions, leopards, cheetahs, crocodiles, wild dogs and hyenas.
Common warthogs are not territorial, but instead occupy a home range. Common warthogs live in groups called sounders. Females live in sounders with their young and with other females. Subadult males associate in bachelor groups, but live alone when they become adults. – Wikipedia
Mama swan and the growing cygnets look optimistic. Maybe my camera is a box of nutritious goodies. Other people standing here have good stuff for the swans, so why don't I? [OLY02579_lr_3000]
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Eggshells are perfect cultivation pots, both natural and nutritious for the plants.
My contribution for this week's theme «shell»; for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.
Mitt bidrag till Fotosöndag och veckans tema «skal».
The half-domes of "candy" are actually supposed to be nutritious, along with having catnip or silver vine to entice them. (You can see the video of Jimmy licking it below.)
They are easy to find on Amazon.com with a search "cat candy catnip"; lots of choices come up. Not all of our cats seem interested; I recommend wetting the tip of your finger and rubbing it over the dome, then put it to the cat's nose.
the sky don't lie
and neither will I
look to the stairs said Zoroaster
if they think theres going to be a disaster
i have some swamp land
that's ripe for some man made
all natural bland
and delicious hand raised and pan braised
gelatinous
and quite nutritious
political rhetoric.
guaranteed to wet you appetite
and always to delight
your foot rubbing
mud slinging
gaslighting
and the always glamorous backbiting
and in conclusion
in the words of the mighty daffy duck
that's all folks!!!!!
We can thank the European continent for this common compost fly that first arrived here in the States about 140 years ago. On the other side of the Big Pond it would be called a thick-legged hoverfly. Both names have merit for if you look at the hind leg of this female fly you will notice that her femur looks very fat - or thick. Notice too the dangerous-looking row of sharp spines along the lower edge of that swollen leg segment. This female will lay her eggs in rotting dung or compost and that's what her young will live on - you could say the larvae help turn compost into fertilizer. Females like this one feed on nutritious flower pollen to help develop their eggs. Common compost flies are members of the large hover fly or flower fly family and are important pollinators of our wild flowering plants.
This is the week of medium-size ungulates with antlers. I've seen and photographed larger Moose in Grasslands... but not this close.
I spotted him while driving, at a location that has produced a wide variety of wildlife for me in the past. Caught a white flash of antlers through the forest of twigs. Drove on by, parked on the roadside, and hiked back, crawling the last 150 feet or so, using available cover. Found a position mostly behind some twiggy shrubs with a clean line of sight down to the dried up wetland, and sure enough, after a short wait, I watched not one but two of these big critters emerge from the thicket: a cow. followed by this bull.
They could hear my shutter, but couldn't see me clearly, if at all (the Moose here won't tolerate the sight of a human). The wind was favourable, so they could not get my scent. I had half an hour with them - more results to come before too long - and there was a bonus, which will be tomorrow's upload.
For those who wonder whether there is suitable habit for Moose on the prairie, take a good look at his surroundings. Willows galore! Those nutritious and evidently delicious willows grow extensively along the Frenchman River and in adjacent areas such as this. Food, shelter, and absence of predators (including humans who hunt) combine to create a haven for these huge deer.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
The broad-headed bugs within family Alydidae are mostly tropical and subtropical. They are true bugs, lacking chewing mouthparts. Their main food is seeds, which they pierce with their proboscis to drink the nutritious fluids contained within. The proboscis can be seen tucked under the face and carrying on backwards under the abdomen in this shot.
This is Noliphus erythrocephalus. Body length 15 mm
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My creative abstract version of dandelions growing in our local park. Edited with a white matte frame.
From root to flower, dandelions are highly nutritious plants loaded with vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Dandelion greens can be eaten cooked or raw and are an excellent source of vitamins A, C, and K. They also contain vitamin E, folate, and small amounts of other B vitamins.
The wholemeal crackers with butter and "caramel" (if you do not know the "dulce de leche" you have to taste it: it is one of the best inventions in the world, and it's no joke), or with cheese spreadable, they are one of the most delicious refreshments and nutritious ones that exist. Ideal at any time of the day, and to combine with coffee, "mate", soft drinks or beer.
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Adult psyllid beside lerps that provide protection to the nymphal stages while they grow. The lerp is constantly enlarged as the nymph grows.
This one is on a gum leaf from a tree in my garden. This species of lerp is very common. The lerp material itself is highly nutritious and provides food for many small and not so small birds.
Canberra, Australia, February, 2014.
The colorful flower of a kind of Indian spinach in my garden. It is around 2 cm in dia !!! The leaves of this plant are very nutritious and tasty and we regularly consume it !!!
Have a great day, friends !!
நின்னைச் சரண்புகுந்தால் நீகாக்கல் வேண்டுமல்லால்
என்னைப் புறம்விடுதல் என்னே பராபரமே !!!
தாயுமானவர் பராபரக்கண்ணி
I have families of Blue Tits, Coal Tits, Great Tits, Gold Finches and Chaffinches, along with other birds but these are my actual regular garden/woodland birds at Long Acre Manor. As they've gotten familiar to me, they have become braver. The Blue Tits are quite skittish and nervous. As I garden and plant my vegetable garden, the trust is growing although they will never be as bold as my Robin or my Crazily funny Pheasant who squawks every morning asking me for food. I have provided these nervous birds with safe food places and boxes for breeding and tables throughout my garden and woodland with a supply of good nutritious food. I have been unable to catch an image of any of the Blue Tits till this image last week. Although taken with a 600mm lens I was actually very close. Its been so lovely to build up trust that they now feed in front of me as long as I sit quietly and just watch he'll hop quite close to me and I find such joy in this trust. Happy Friday ~ KissThePixel2019
The Hortus here is always a wonderful place to visit; but now in Full Spring it's especially delightful. Pencilled Geranium's seductive powers much add to the varieties of insects one might see. They're attracted by its scent and guided to the nutritious stuff by those flower lines in deep pink. A Wool Carder Bee is consuming its fill!
Arusha National Park
Tanzania
East Africa
The common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) is a wild member of the pig family (Suidae) found in grassland, savanna, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.
The common warthog is the only pig species that has adapted to grazing and savanna habitats. Its diet is omnivorous, composed of grasses, roots, berries and other fruits, bark, fungi, insects, eggs and carrion. During the wet seasons, warthogs graze on short perennial grasses. During the dry seasons, they subsist on bulbs, rhizomes, and nutritious roots.
Although they can dig their own burrows, they commonly occupy abandoned burrows of aardvarks and other animals. The common warthog reverses into burrows, with its head facing the opening and ready to burst out if necessary.
Although capable of fighting (males aggressively fight each other during mating season), the common warthog's primary defense is to flee by means of fast sprinting. The common warthog's main predators are humans, lions, leopards, cheetahs, crocodiles, wild dogs and hyenas.
Common warthogs are not territorial, but instead occupy a home range. Common warthogs live in groups called sounders. Females live in sounders with their young and with other females. Subadult males associate in bachelor groups, but live alone when they become adults. – Wikipedia