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Gitanilla de la gatuña .
Revisando antiguos archivos aparecen lindas criaturas como estas zygaenas. Esa X del posadero no ha conseguido tacharla de sus aspiraciones de volar por la galería.
Su planta nutricia es Ononis sp. De la familia Fabaceae.
Merry Burnet
Looking through old archives, cute creatures like these zygaenas appear. That X where she poses has not managed to cross her out of her aspirations to fly through the gallery.
Its nutritious plant is Ononis sp. From the Fabaceae family.
Zygène de la bugrane, Zygène hilare
En parcourant d'anciens fichiers, de jolies créatures comme ces zygaenas apparaissent. Ce X où elle pose n'a pas réussi à la faire sortir de ses aspirations à voler à travers la galerie.
Sa plante nutritive est Ononis sp. De la famille des Fabacées.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
The Mopane “worm” is actually the caterpillar form of the Emperor moth (Gonimbrasia belina), which lives nearly its entire life on the mopane tree. It lays its eggs on the tree’s leaves, which the larvae gorge on from the moment they hatch.
Mopane worms are an important species in their mopane tree-dominated habitats, and they play an important ecological role in converting plant matter into nutrients that are available to other animals and plants. They are also economically important as they are a seasonally abundant form of cheap, but nutritious protein for local people.
Once picked, the worm is pinched open at one end and squeezed to expel a vibrant green mass of half-digested leaves and innards. If any remnants of leaves are left in the worms, they impart a slightly tea-like flavor. The empty body of the worm is then pickled, dried, smoked, and/or fried to the individual’s specific tastes. Some say that the smoked and fried worms are similar in flavor to the jerky-like biltong or a well-done steak, while others cite an earthy, vegetal experience.
PS In season a Mopane worm pizza is also available????
Dahlia pinnata (D. × pinnata) is a species in the genus Dahlia, family Asteraceae, with the common name garden dahlia. It is the type species of the genus and is widely cultivated.
Used as an ornamental plant, and was cultivated by the Aztecs before the discovery of America, and was introduced to Spain in 1798. Modern dahlias are often the product of hybridisation between D. pinnata and D. coccinea. As cutflowers, dahlia have a long lifespan.[6]
Besides being used for their outside appearance, dahlias tend to be used for their medicinal properties as well. This plant's roots contain some "nutritious inulin stored inside them" and they even have "antibiotic compounds concentrated in the skin of the tubers." This was so much so that this garden dahlia was before such an "important root crop and medicinal plant among the pre-Columbian Indians of central Mexico, Yucatan and Guatemala."
This tricolored bumble bee queen is a real beauty! She just emerged from hibernation and is getting some nutritious nectar and pollen from these blooming prairie willow catkins - especially since there are no other flowers blooming on Hayden Prairie yet. She crawled under the leaf litter here last October and froze solid all winter before thawing out now! She will soon start laying eggs in an abandoned rodent burrow and her offspring will form a colony that could number in the hundreds by autumn when they will all die again except for one lucky queen. Look for tricolored bumble bees near large patches of goldenrod plants during the growing season.
Dieser Gefleckte Schmalbock (Rutpela maculata) auf hat es auf die Staubblätter einer Gemeinen Schafgarbe (Achillea millefolium) abgesehen und frisst gezielt neben Nektar vor allem den Pollen, den die Blütenstände bereit stellen. Der Pollen ist eiweißreich und damit sehr nahrhaft. Wie das Bild zeigt, wird der Kopf des Insekts beim Fressen mit Pollenkörnern übersäht, wodurch der Käfer auch zur Bestäubung der Blüten beitragen kann. Der ungiftige und harmlose Schmalbock ist im Prinzip wie eine Wespe gefärbt und damit vor Angreifern weitgehend geschützt (Mimikry).
Die Aufnahme entstand in meinem Garten.
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This spotted longhorn (Rutpela maculata) has its focus on the stamens of a common yarrow (Achillea millefolium) and, in addition to nectar, eats the pollen provided by the inflorescences. The pollen is rich in protein and thus very nutritious. As the photo shows, the insect's head is covered with pollen grains when it feeds, which also allows the beetle to contribute to pollination of the flowers. The non-poisonous and harmless narrow beetle is coloured like a wasp and thus largely protected from attackers (mimicry).
The photo was taken in my garden.
I was slightly surprised but not shocked to find about 50 American robins at Palisades Park in Decorah today. I am confident that these robins intend to spend the entire winter right here since I've found robins wintering here in previous years. This area has a very hospitable microclimate to help robins get through a rough winter in good shape - sheer limestone cliffs that face south and act like solar heaters even on very cold sunny days, lots of eastern red cedar trees loaded with nutritious berries so these tight evergreen trees provide both food and shelter, and the Upper Iowa River is right there with open water when the robins get thirsty or need a bath.
Marnie ate it ! She does love dandelions. Apparently they are very nutritious, so I don't mind her eating them at all, although I'd prefer her to eat the ones flowering in my garden and not in the park. Normally she'd only eat the stem and the leaves, but on this occasion, she decided the whole lot would do 😃 !
Very many thanks for your views and comments, everyone. Happy Springtime for those of you in the Northern temperate regions. Hurry up Spring for those of you still battling with cold weather. Hope it warms up for you soon !
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This black-capped chickadee is looking high and low for the next nutritious giant ragweed seed hidden amongst those stems.
This white-winged crossbill is another wonderful northern finch that likes to wander across the country searching for fresh food supplies during winter. Notice the two bold white wing bars on her black wing and that very cool crisscrossed bill that help us identify her. That crossed bill is normal and lets the birds pry open conifer cones so they can pull out the nutritious seeds stored inside. This visiting female white-winged crossbill will likely nest somewhere in Canada's sprawling boreal forest.
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This fellow had been pigging out on nutritious cattail fluff. He knew I was watching, but seemed content to relax in the sunshine after his breakfast.
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
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Heliconius (longwing) butterflies) hang all over these sparse, Cheetos-orange blossoms. To understand the attraction, it helps to know that Heliconius butterflies have an unusual ability. They can digest pollen and use the proteins. All adult butterflies get food with a proboscis – a straw-like tube that can only drink liquids. But the Heliconius butterflies produce a fluid that can dissolve the protein in pollen granules and turn it into liquid form. They essentially use their saliva to turn pollen into a nutritious protein drink. Psiguria co-evolved with the Heliconius to meet the butterfly’s pollen needs, while the butterfly meets the plant’s pollination needs.
Heliconius hewitsoni on Psiguria tarasiensis
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier or ossifrage, is a bird of prey.
The acid concentration of the bearded vulture stomach has been estimated to be of pH about 1 and large bones will be digested in about 24 hours, aided by slow mixing/churning of the stomach content. The high fat content of bone marrow makes the net energy value of bone almost as good as that of muscle, even if bone is less completely digested. A skeleton left on a mountain will dehydrate and become protected from bacterial degradation and the bearded vulture can return to consume the remainder of a carcass even months after the soft parts have been consumed by other animals, larvae and bacteria.
Like other vultures it is a scavenger, feeding mostly on the remains of dead animals. It usually disdains the actual meat, however, and lives on a diet that is typically 85–90% bone marrow. This is the only living bird species that specializes in feeding on marrow. The bearded vulture can swallow whole or bite through brittle bones up to the size of a lamb's femur and its powerful digestive system quickly dissolves even large pieces. The bearded vulture has learned to crack bones too large to be swallowed by carrying them in flight to a height of 50–150 m (160–490 ft) above the ground and then dropping them onto rocks below, which smashes them into smaller pieces and exposes the nutritious marrow. They can fly with bones up to 10 cm (3.9 in) in diameter and weighing over 4 kg (8.8 lb), or nearly equal to their own weight. After dropping the large bones, the bearded vulture spirals or glides down to inspect them and may repeat the act if the bone is not sufficiently cracked. This learned skill requires extensive practice by immature birds and takes up to seven years to master. Its old name of ossifrage ("bone breaker") relates to this habit. More seldom, these birds have been observed to try to break bones (usually of a medium size) by hammering them with their bill directly into rocks while perched. During the breeding season they feed mainly on carrion. They prefer limbs of sheep and other small mammals and they carry the food to the nest unlike other vultures which feed their young by regurgitation.
Live prey is sometimes attacked by the bearded vulture, with perhaps greater regularity than any other vulture. Among these, tortoises seem to be especially favored depending on their local abundance. Tortoises preyed on may be nearly as heavy as the preying vulture. When killing tortoise, bearded vultures also fly to some height and drop them to crack open the bulky reptiles' hard shells. Golden eagles have been observed to kill tortoises in the same way. Other live animals, up to nearly their own size, have been observed to be predaciously seized and dropped in flight. Among these are rock hyraxes, hares, marmots and, in one case, a 62 cm (24 in) long monitor lizard. Larger animals have been known to be attacked by bearded vultures, including ibex, Capra goats, Chamois and Steenbok. These animals have been killed by being surprised by the large birds and battered with wings until they fall off precipitous rocky edges to their deaths; although in some cases these may be accidental killings when both the vulture and the mammal surprise each other. Many large animals killed by bearded vultures are unsteady young, or have appeared sickly or obviously injured. Humans have been anecdotally reported to have been killed in the same way. However, this is unconfirmed and, if it does happen, most biologists who have studied the birds generally agreed it would be accidental on the part of the vulture. Occasionally smaller ground-dwelling birds, such as partridges and pigeons, have been reported eaten, possibly either as fresh carrion (which is usually ignored by these birds) or killed with beating wings by the vulture. While foraging for bones or live prey while in flight, bearded vultures fly fairly low over the rocky ground, staying around 2 to 4 m (6.6 to 13.1 ft) high. Occasionally, breeding pairs may forage and hunt together. In the Ethiopian Highlands, bearded vultures have adapted to living largely off human refuse.
With the collaboration of my friend and follower!! Amara Irata
Modeling for this photo <3 While we had a nutritious and very entertaining chat xD A lot of Thanks so much Dear!!
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One more photo of social criticism... In this photo I dare to expose exactly what I refer to, since it has no credit at all :P
Every day we can see the circus, which has not changed much. Manipulating ourselves with their means, constantly following our movements. For their pure governmental, economic and collective atonement purposes. Whereas society, unfortunately, is always divided between wolves and lambs.
It is a pity that the summit does not burn and that all those who form part of the base of the pyramid are freed. Something impossible, while the only god that exists, in this miserable corrupt and materialistic world, is money.
What a shame to be slaves to a simple piece of paper that has the power to manage a lifetime and bring it to the most absolute misery.
Therefore, if that day comes, many of us would be spectators: "While Everything Burns".
Here I say goodbye. I’m not very social in my own hahaha
I hope as long as you like it. :D
Thank you so much for seeing me every day! <3
XoXO
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Una foto más de crítica social... En esta foto me atrevo a exponer exactamente a lo que hago referencia, ya que no tiene crédito alguno :P
A diario podemos ver el circo, que no ha cambiado mucho. Manipulándonos con sus medios, haciendo un seguimiento constante de nuestros movimientos. Para sus puros fines gubernamentales, económicos y de atontamiento colectivo. Mientras que la sociedad, lamentablemente, siempre queda dividida entre: lobos y corderos.
Lástima no ardiese la cúspide y quedásemos liberados todos aquellos que formamos parte de la base de la pirámide. Algo imposible, mientras el único dios que existe, en este miserable mundo corrupto y materialista, sea el dinero.
Que vergüenza ser esclavos de un simple papelito que tiene el poder de manejar toda una vida y llevarla a la más absoluta miseria.
Por ello si llegará ese día, muchos estaríamos expectantes: "Mientras todo arde".
Aquí ya me despido. No soy muy social en mi misma jajaja
Espero como siempre que os guste.
Muchísimas gracias por verme cada día! <3
XoXO
I've been avoiding woodlands lately since I don't like giving away a pint of blood to thirsty mosquitoes but I had to find some shade today and so after dousing myself with DEET ventured off into one of the forests here at Lake Meyer Park where I found this fantastic robber fly. This huge guy looks just about like a bumble bee which not only helps it avoid predation but allows it to get very close to real bumble bees since they assume it is one of their bumble bee friends. However, bumble bees are one of this robber fly's favorite foods. They snatch a foraging bumble bee with those spiny legs and then stab it with a stiletto beak that immediately injects immobilizing toxins. They don't eat the bumble bee proper but instead suck out the nutritious liquid insides just like we drink a milkshake!
2023 Photo 186/179 This velvety six-pointer is finding plenty of nutritious forage in our woods this summer. The local deer population is huge, but there seems to be plenty that’s green about to support it. 2023 John M. Hudson
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.
....keeps the doctor away. Apparently. Couldn't keep away from a bit of macro action this week so here's my submission for all things healthy.
Your good health everyone!!
Gitanilla de la gatuña .
Revisando antiguos archivos “salen volando” lindas criaturas como estas zygaenas en su deseo de figurar en la galería. En la foto, posada sobre una escabiosa.
Su planta nutricia es Ononis sp. De la familia Fabaceae.
Merry Burnet
Reviewing old archives "fly away" cute creatures like these zygaenas in their desire to appear in the gallery. In the photo, perched on a scabious.
Its nutritious plant is Ononis sp. From the Fabaceae family.
Zygène de la bugrane, Zygène hilare
Revue d'anciennes archives "s'envolent" de jolies créatures comme ces zygaenas dans leur désir d'apparaître dans la galerie. Sur la photo, perché sur un scabious.
Sa plante nutritive est Ononis sp. De la famille des Fabacées.
"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. Because conifers produce seeds unpredictably, Red Crossbills sometimes wander (or “irrupt”) far beyond their usual range. They nest wherever and whenever they find abundant food, sometimes even in winter. Several types of Red Crossbill exist; they each have different calls, feed on particular conifer species, and might represent distinct species."
Yesterday I spent some time with a Porcupine - no, not this Porcupine, this one is from a year ago. Yesterday's Porky was feeding on new growth, like this one, but in a more enclosed place and in an hour of watching I couldn't get a clear sight line. Last year, however, this one came out into the open in sagebrush flats above the Frenchman River.
I see Porcupines on the ground most often in spring. I think they are looking for a change in diet after spending the winter stripping bark from trees and nibbling on hard little buds. All nutritious stuff for the big rodents, but who can resist a taste of fresh spring grasses and nutritious roots?
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.
This Grey Butcherbird prepared the dead branch by stripping off its bark to reveal nutritious morsels.
(Cracticus torquatus)
"Humans aren't the only species that farms other animals for food – ants do it too and their herds consist of aphids. They feed on plant sap and excrete a sweet and nutritious liquid called honeydew, which the ants drink. In return, the ants run a protection racket, defending the aphids from predators like ladybirds."
(Quote from the National Geographic website)
I took this photo of an ant farming aphids at Kinder Farm Park in Maryland on 8/29/22.
This is a nut from a Hickory tree. Look at that SHELL! A Gray Squirrel split this formidable package cleanly in half, to get to the nutritious meat inside. I went online to learn what kind of nut this is. I also learned: WHAT WE SHOULD NOT FEED ANY SPECIES OF SQUIRRELS:
PEANUTS, CORN, OR ANYTHING CONTAINING SALT.
Salty foods can damage their kidneys. Peanuts are not nuts but legumes and are "empty calories" for squirrels, as is corn. They will raid the bird feeders, but those who survive will not rely on bird seed. The various nuts and plants in nature give them all the nutrients they need, such as this Hickory nut. I regularly find these shells in my yard. A GOOD THING TO PROVIDE FOR THEM: CLEAN WATER. I sure learned a lot! I hope this is helpful to you too!
Theme: "Shells"
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Aporia crataegi (Linnaeus 1758)
Blanca del majuelo.
Majuelo = Espino albar = (Crataegus monogyna)
Esta especie en algunas ocasiones abandona la planta nutricia para pasar al estado de crisálida, y lo puede hacer en algún tallo de gramíneas como en este caso.
Black-veined White - Chrysalis
This species sometimes leaves the nutritious plant to pass to the chrysalis state, and it can do so in a grass stem as in this case.
Gazé - Chrysalide
Cette espèce quitte parfois la plante nutritive pour passer à l'état de chrysalide, et elle peut le faire dans une tige d'herbe, comme dans ce cas.
Female acorn weevils use that remarkable specialized snout to chew a tiny hole into developing acorns now in late summer and then lay a few eggs inside. Upon hatching, the larval weevils start eating the nutritious nut meat and grow into little white grubs. Once the acorn falls from the tree in autumn, the mature acorn weevil grubs chew a small round hole in the acorn shell wall, crawl out, and then tunnel undergound where they pupate and overwinter. Next summer when the oak trees start to make new acorns, they'll emerge just like this one and start the whole cycle over. There are several very similar-looking acorn weevils in our area.
Here's a recent addition to "Wildlife in Winter", photographed last weekend. As you can see, most of our snow has melted (not necessarily a good thing). When I spotted this Porcupine feeding on the nutritious buds of buffaloberry, its quills a halo of fiery light, I decided to shoot from the car. In processing, I cropped the image significantly, reduced noise, and then upscaled a little bit. Lightened the face so that we can see the eyes and nose.
Having used a 1.4x teleconverter for the shot, I had my doubts as to whether the quality would hold, but this lens - the Nikon 500mm f/5.6 - is amazing. I could have cropped more, but really wanted to show habitat, including the snowy bottomland below the thicket, and those snow patches on the hillside in the background.
I seem to have my best luck with Porcupines in the winter and spring. I know they're around all year, but there is more concealment after the thickets leaf-out, so I don't see them as often from early May until the leaves drop.
I have much closer shots of these animals, but I love the gesture here, and the light.
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.
We left a lot of grapes in the vineyard so that birds could eat during the winter, grape seed contains a lot of fat and it is very nutritious. (one quick shot from my balcony)
Have a nice day and thank you for visiting!
This slender meadow katydid sure blends in well with all the green and brown grass or sedge stems now in late summer. They like to eat the nutritious ripening seed heads on those mature grasses and sedges. Males have a very soft purring song that can sometimes be heard on a quiet sunny afternoon out in prairie meadows where they live.
Biltong is an old traditional South African beef, game or ostrich fillet snack, cured in a
unique and highly nutritious way. Basically, its dried meat, flavoured with herbs and spices and our South African magic!
Hope you will enjoy this photo.
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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.
Invasive Water Hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes with a little dangling damselfly. Illegal to collect or transplant these beauties, because they will clog any body of water in short order. These are the floating plants surrounding the Lotus in the first comment. Non-nutritious, I hear, although I have seen Gallinules eating the flowers.
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Here is a leftover photo from yesterday. This neat little three-lined drone fly is one of the first wild pollinators to appear in the spring. This colorful fuzzy fly mimics bees and really picks up pollen on all those protruding hairs. Females turn that nutritious pollen into fuel for making eggs. They are also called the white-banded flower fly.
For Looking Close on Friday theme 'Eggs in Black and White'.
While preparing for this theme I knew I wanted a white egg for playing with some white-on-white minimalism. As all the eggs from the local supermarket are brown, I called in at my neighbour's croft where she keeps a few free-range chickens and ducks of various varieties. She very kindly gave me a few eggs that were too small to be sold, from some young hens that had just started laying.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph. This snail wasn't in the least bothered by the broken edge of the shell. Some gardeners claim that putting broken eggshells around plants acts as a snail deterrent, but a study done by the Royal Horticultural Society found this to be of no use. Snails may be soft but they are tough!
In fact, eggshells are an excellent source of calcium carbonate that snails need to grow their own shells, so snails may actually be attracted to the broken eggshells for a nutritious nibble. Hence the title of the image is from an old British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan from the 1960's.
If you don't find it too disgusting, zoom in on the image for the details on the snail's face.
An adult Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) searches the mudflats of Chaplin Lake for some nutritious items during a break in the activities of the breeding season on the prairie landscape east of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Chaplin Lake is home to a healthy population of Piping Plovers, provided with lots of nesting and feeding habitat. There is a solution mining operation for sodium sulphate on the lake as well as a brine shrimp fishery. Access is restricted to the lake so the plovers are relatively safe from disturbance.
The Piping Plover was on the endangered species list in Canada as of 10 years ago but I am not certain of their current status.
20 May, 2013.
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ripe berries of lonicera caprifolium/ honeysuckle in combination with wild agrimony flowers forming a lovely spontaneous little scene
agrimony is a beneficial herb that was already known by ancient Greek and Romans, also in Keltic culture, China and by Native Americans... to treat eye and skin ailments or insomnia etc., in Europe during the middle ages and Afrika in VooDoo it was/is even used to dispel curses!
but nothing of course like laughing at our troubles to dispel them, much better than to hide or say repress them for which agrimony also helps according to the English Dr. Bach in 19th century... making more spontaneous and open, also brave and confident enough to face troubles... keeping naturally cheerful and jovial!
also lonicera is a traditional herb known to be very beneficial for health and it is very nutritious... a.o. also calming and strengthening it is... too much to name here... but let 's say it is quite a strong combination that I came across here in the park where only wild flowers are found!
Hay is grass and other plants that have been cut, dried and collected. It can then be stored in piles (called hay stacks), or tied into blocks called bales. Bales can be round or box shaped (usually called square bales).
Hay is mostly used to feed animals. Some animals that eat hay are horses, cattle, goats, donkeys, and rabbits. Hay is fed when there is not enough pasture or rangeland on which an animal can graze or they can't graze year round. Farmers and ranchers often need to use hay in the winter when grass is not available.
Hay is different than straw. Hay is made from leafy grass and other plants (such as alfalfa) and is good for feeding animals. Straw comes from the stems of cereal grains, and is not very nutritious. Straw is normally used for bedding to keep animals warm and dry.
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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. The diet is seasonably variable, depending on availability of different food items. During the wet seasons, warthogs graze on short perennial grasses. During the dry seasons, they subsist on bulbs, rhizomes, and nutritious roots.
Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda. January 2017.
This young fawn was out on its own today, too. It's standing on the edge of a soybean field here, which happens to be one of the white-tailed deer's favorite foods since those bountiful greens taste good and the ripe soybeans are super-nutritious!
For Macro Mondays theme 'Reflection'.
For Smile on Saturday theme 'Eggs From Chickens and Co'.
This image was arrived at rather accidentally while preparing for the Looking Close on Friday theme 'Eggs in Black and White'. All the eggs from the local supermarket are brown, but I wanted white, so I called in at my neighbour's croft where she keeps a few free-range chickens and ducks of various varieties. She very kindly gave me a few eggs that were too small to be sold, from some young hens that had just started laying.
One of my snails was very active and performed brilliantly very quickly - and the 1984 song by Queen came to mind!
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph. This snail wasn't in the least bothered by the broken edge of the shell. Some gardeners claim that putting broken eggshells around plants acts as a snail deterrent, but a study done by the Royal Horticultural Society found this to be of no use. Snails may be soft but they are tough!
In fact, eggshells are an excellent source of calcium carbonate that snails need to grow their own shells, so snails may actually be attracted to the broken eggshells for a nutritious nibble.
Tigernuts Prepared in Flavored Liquid
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I use this baits for carper angling, I hope you like the HMM shot
Ursprünglich baute die Mehlschwalbe ihre kunstvollen Lehmnester an Feldwänden oder Küstenklippen (heute noch auf Rügen!). Doch schon seit langem hat sie sich dem Menschen angeschlossen und nutzt rau verputzte Häuserwände unter geschützten Dachvorsprüngen zum Nestbau. Hier brütet sie oft in großen Kolonien.
Ortschaften und Gebäude in der Nähe von Gewässern werden bevorzugt, denn hier jagen Mehlschwalben besonders an kühleren Tagen nach Insekten. Im Flug erbeuten sie Mücken, Fliegen, Schmetterlinge und Eintagsfliegen. Eingespeichelt ergeben diese während der Brutzeit nahrhafte Leckerbissen für den hungrigen Nachwuchs. Quelle NABU
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Originally, the House Martin built their elaborate clay nests on field walls or coastal cliffs (today Rügen!). But already for a long time she has connected to the people and uses rough plastered walls, sheltered eaves to nest building. Here, she often breeds in large colonies.
Places and buildings nearby waters are preferred, because here his hunt especially on cooler days for insects. In flight, they eat mosquitoes, flies, butterflies and flies. Insalivated, these are nutritious treat for the hungry young during the breeding season. Source NABU
The clementine small, seedless, and easy to peel. Nutritious because they’re loaded with fiber and vitamin C. A cross between an orange and a mandarin clementines and have been grown for hundreds of years.