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Extracting a nutritious worm from sandbed. Saw 300-500 of these foraging on a Pacific Northwest beach.
Sitting atop their feeder and source of sucrose to fuel their HIGH energy lives hatchlings also depend on a nicely regurgitated bug breakfast.
Hummers will eat some several dozen insects during a normal day, from mosquitoes even up to small bees, but when preggers they will catch and pass on many more bug remains per day -- gotta get that protein, vitamins and minerals somewhere, just like all children....
Mom will hold it in her throat and roughly squirt into her little bundles of joy -- sort of reminds one of CPR as she JAMS it on in there......
Anatomy of rot … this little dresser gradually disintegrated from the water dripping on it. Evidently moss finds the the resulting sludge nutritious.
This good-natured robin is offering to share its nutritious crabapple. There certainly weren't any worms to find on the white ground today!
One precious frame cropped from my video clip
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Locust Borer Longhorn Beetle – 2020OCT02 – Charlotte, NC
I went to harvest goldenrod for goldenrod tea, finding in the bountiful blossoms a breathtaking bonus: a beauteous beetle!
Spectacular arrays of brilliant yellow flowers attract throngs of insects intent on collecting and consuming the nutritious large and rather sticky pollen from myriads of small flowers on each plant, a magnet for late summer and early autumn insects, this wasp-striped longhorn beetle among the most eye-catching, especially important to it as a mimic (Batesian mimicry, something harmless imitating something dangerous): looks like a bee or a wasp but cannot sting.
Many insects, like this locust borer, try very hard to imitate bees (called bee mimics) and wasps, and do a surprisingly good job of it!
Hope you enjoy this 25% of 213 captures I took here this day!
The Greenmarket, a program of GrowNYC, offers affordable, locally grown produce and fresh-baked goods. Learn how to make nutritious meals and find out about composting, recycling, growing vegetables, and more during demonstrations held each Wednesday.
Bearded Reedlings will concentrate on feeding on insect based foods during Spring and Summer but as the weather changes in Autumn insect life decreases as these tiny insects prepare for hibernation in and around the wetlands. At this time birds like the Bearded Reedling change their diet to seeds, particularly from the tall fonds of reed heads or Phragmites, abundant with seeds. Bearded Reedlings are pretty hardy little birds and although there is some dispersal and part migration throughout Europe during Autum and Winter, lots of birds stay and survive the colder seasons. I suppose that the recent warmer climate with less severe winters help their survival during this time.
Bearded Reedlings (Panurus biarmicus) feeding Phragmites seeds_w_6236
Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients - they are among the best foods you can eat.
The marshy areas by Brownsville are filled with arrowhead, wild celery and sago pondweed - plants with small potato-like tubers for roots that the swans can reach from the bottom mud with their long necks. Those nutritious tubers will power their trip to Chesapeake Bay.
This recipe had me at Lyle's Golden Syrup.... yummy and I'm certain nutritious it's a favorite winter bread for me. Recipe from Saveur Mag
Elands have experienced population decline due to hunting:
Their rich milk, tasty meat, and useful hides have made them popular ranch animals and hunting targets. Their meat is highly prized, especially by illegal hunters, because each animal provides a large quantity of meat.
The world’s largest antelope is becoming widely domesticated due to their high yield of nutritious ‘long life’ antibacterial milk — which also has much higher protein content and milk fat than cow’s milk — in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Kenya.
They are an important part of the Kenyan culture, where they bleed the animals with a sharp dart and drink the blood.
Human and livestock expansion destroy Eland habitats:
As human populations are growing and expanding settlements and agriculture, they are encroaching on Eland's living spaces and destroying habitats and food sources.
They have been eliminated from more than 50 percent of their historic range due to human encroachment, and since the 1970s, their population decreased dramatically because of civil wars and its aftermath in countries such as Uganda, Rwanda, Angola, and Mozambique. (Source: African Wildlife Foundation)
This one has been hanging around for a while, from the old 2008 archives. I’m renting the title from the Culinary Fool she has the tasty version.
A teenage boy riding on a bicycle happily shows the farm produce he has just harvested for use as a vegetable ingredient in cooking a family lunch.
The bunch of leaves, which have high nutritional value, are from a popular plant known locally as "malunggay" (moringa oleifera is the common name in other tropical countries).
Captured in late morning sunlight in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
The Steenbok inhabits open savannah country where they are reliant on adequate cover in the form of taller grass and clumps of bushes. Absent or rarely seen in forests, mountains, dense woodlands and rocky areas. At times they take refuge in ant-bear holes, and uses these to bear their young.
They have a rufous brown to fawn coat with long, broad ears. Measures 520mm at the shoulders and weigh about 11 Kg. Hind quarters and underparts are pure white. Only rams have upright, slender horns projecting above the eyes. Conspicuous black, facial glands are situated in front of the large, dark brown eyes.
This fleet footed antelope is exclusively a browser, and shows a preference for forbs. It is generally highly selective for green material such as young leaves, flowers, fruits and shoot tips of various plants. The ability to exist independently of free water is related to its selective browsing habits. Roots, tubers and bulbs are taken during dry months by raking the ground, and even digging shoulder-deep, to reach these nutritious food supplies which are high in moisture content.
Mullein, sprouting in a sidewalk crack--together with purslane, another old friend!! (and a bit of oxalis). So pleasant to see these old familiars. . . . . . here in California. They are not so common here as in other parts of the country--by my experience. Both are imports to the New World from the Old, carried here accidentally by the first settlers.. I love the red stems of the very edible purslane. Highly nutritious!
American Goldfinch [Spinus tristes] on a sunflower.
I’ve been trying to get a shot of one of these wee beauties, for years...Usually, when I see one, it’s high up on the top of a conifer...Here, this wee guy was having a very nutritious lunch of fresh sunflower seeds, in my niece’s garden. (I have about 3m photos of this one...!) Lots of sparrows were also helping themselves to these sunflower seeds.
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Delicious nutritious fruit, the only health hazards involved are in the picking of it. Never attempt to pick green fruit...never!
Baby red squirrel eating cashews. Later I switched to more nutritious commercial rodent chow. Look at the claws on this little guy!
My South Indian Lunch comprised of Masala Dosa, Khara Bath, Kesari Bath, Masala Vada, Pachadi and Coconut Chutney.
This lovely member of the Lily family was extensively foraged for its nutritious bulbs. The cerulean blue is a sure sign of spring in the PNW.
LA: Fumaria officinalis
EN: Common fumitory
DE: Gewöhnliche Erdrauch
HU: Orvosi füstike
The most common species of the genus Fumaria.
Normally an indicator of nutritious soils.
In the middle ages and even today the plant has been used in herbal medicine.
Szent György-hegy, Kisapáti, Hungary
~John Gunther
Food Month Continues! This highly nutritious morning meal is for my friend Barb's new group, A Month of Mornings, which celebrates healthier eating of the most important meal of the day. Stop by, join in and have a bite.
Fruit Loops and a Brown Sugar & Cinnamon Pop-Tart: Only the finest breakfast combo since green eggs & ham, I ate this nearly every morning in high school & college. And yes, I was usually sound asleep at my desk an hour later when the sugar crash hit. Zzzzzzzzzz.
I see you wanting my Toucan Sam bowl
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The bumblebee has just woken up on its big yellow bed and is ready for a nutritious yellow breakfast.