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dtl from the fitting on Faliro sq. Athens - Greece, 2011
Design + construction: Werner Maritsas
Materials: plywood + metal
Dimensions 2.50X2.50X2.55
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I was a biology geek in school and we a good few trips counting snails , drawing diagrams ...they probably get to play with digi cameras now Sigh...... but if you care a brief and overly simply bio lesson ......all these snail in pictures are the same species Cepaea nemoralis it gets studied a lot in biology cos its polymorphic (within the species it has many physical forms ). On grassland you tend to find just the pale ones, cos the darker snails are very visible to feeding birds and therefore fail to pass on their genes to the next generation . But you get wildly differing types in structually diverse environments like this wood the banding good camouflage for the "stripeys" hanging out on the knots while the "pale snails" prefer the leaves .
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea") and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, which was about 56 million years ago.
Butterflies have the typical four-stage insect life cycle. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, and after its wings have expanded and dried, it flies off. Some butterflies, especially in the tropics, have several generations in a year, while others have a single generation, and a few in cold locations may take several years to pass through their whole life cycle.
Butterflies are often polymorphic, and many species make use of camouflage, mimicry and aposematism to evade their predators. Some, like the monarch and the painted lady, migrate over long distances. Many butterflies are attacked by parasites or parasitoids, including wasps, protozoans, flies, and other invertebrates, or are preyed upon by other organisms. Some species are pests because in their larval stages they can damage domestic crops or trees; other species are agents of pollination of some plants. Larvae of a few butterflies (e.g., harvesters) eat harmful insects, and a few are predators of ants, while others live as mutualists in association with ants. Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts.
Psoralea bituminosa (Bitumen pea) "A polymorphic plant which often forms dense stands along the sides of roads. The stem is slender, erect, and has leaves with three elongated, lanceolate, and long-stalked leaflets. The flowers are blue-violet, with hairy calyces in almost round heads which have a very long flower stalk and grow on the axils of the leaves. The plent is easily recognized by the characteristic smell of tar which it emits. Common on roadsides, ditches, and in fallow fields."
Ben Kepes (www.diversity.net.nz/) questioning "Polymorphic" while Paul Miller (cloudofdata.com/) looks on.
Photographed on Wellington's south coast.
A species of wader in the Haematopodidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand. The Maori name is torea-pango. They are also known as 'red bills'. "Variable" refers to the frontal plumage, which ranges from pied through mottled to all black. They are polymorphic meaning they have different genetic variants. Blacker birds are more common in the south. All Stewart Island variable oystercatchers are black. They have pink legs, an orange eye ring and red beaks. They are often seen in pairs on the coast all around New Zealand. During breeding, the pair will defend their territory, sometimes aggressively. Once mated pairs rarely divorce. After breeding they may be seen within flocks, or on the edges of flocks, of black and white South Island Pied Oystercatcher (SIPO) which also have vivid orange beaks. After breeding they may even form small flocks of their own. Males are around 678 grams and females slightly larger at around 724 grams. Variables can be identified as they are slightly larger than the SIPO - SIPO are around 550 grams. Occasionally totally black but if they are pied (black and white) they can be easily confused with SIPO. The variable species has less definition between the black and the white area, as well as a mottled band on the leading edges of the underwing. Variables also have a smaller white rump patch which is only a band across the base of the tail rather than a wide wedge shape reaching up to the middle of the back as in the SIPO. When mottled they are sometimes called 'smudgies'. They feed on molluscs, crabs and marine worms. After heavy rain, they sometime go inland in search of earthworms. They can open a shellfish by either hammering a hole in it or getting the bill between the two shells (of a bivalve) and twisting them apart. They breed in North Island, South Island, Stewart Island, and Chatham Islands. They do not breed inland or beside rivers although the SIPO does. They nest on the shore between rocks or on sand dunes by making a scrape out of the sand or shingle, sometimes lined with some seaweed. When in flight they make a high pitched 'kleep kleep' sound. They usually lay 2-3 eggs but they can lay up to 5. The eggs are typically stone coloured with small brown patches all over. Eggs hatch in 25-32 days. Chicks are well camouflaged by their colour and can fly in about 6 weeks. The bird lives up to about 27 years.
A species of wader in the Haematopodidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand. The Maori name is torea-pango. They are also known as 'red bills'. "Variable" refers to the frontal plumage, which ranges from pied through mottled to all black. They are polymorphic meaning they have different genetic variants. Blacker birds are more common in the south. All Stewart Island variable oystercatchers are black. The have pink legs, an orange eye ring and red beaks. They are often seen in pairs on the coast all around New Zealand. During breeding, the pair will defend their territory, sometimes aggressively. Once mated pairs rarely divorce. After breeding they may be seen within flocks, or on the edges of flocks, of black and white South Island Pied Oystercatcher (SIPO) which also have vivid orange beaks. After breeding they may even form small flocks of their own. Males are around 678 grams and females slightly larger at around 724 grams. Variables can be identified as they are slightly larger than the SIPO - SIPO are around 550 grams. Occasionally totally black but if they are pied (black and white) they can be easily confused with SIPO. The variable species has less definition between the black and the white area, as well as a mottled band on the leading edges of the underwing. Variables also have a smaller white rump patch which is only a band across the base of the tail rather than a wide wedge shape reaching up to the middle of the back as in the SIPO. When mottled they are sometimes called 'smudgies'. They feed on molluscs, crabs and marine worms. After heavy rain, they sometime go inland in search of earthworms. They can open a shellfish by either hammering a hole in it or getting the bill between the two shells (of a bivalve) and twisting them apart. They breed in North Island, South Island, Stewart Island, and Chatham Islands. They do not breed inland or beside rivers although the SIPO does. They nest on the shore between rocks or on sand dunes by making a scrape out of the sand or shingle, sometimes lined with some seaweed. When in flight they make a high pitched 'kleep kleep' sound. They usually lay 2-3 eggs but they can lay up to 5. The eggs are typically stone coloured with small brown patches all over. Eggs hatch in 25-32 days. Chicks are well camouflaged by their colour and can fly in about 6 weeks. The bird lives up to about 27 years.
A member of the complex Ophrys fusca-group and widespread on the East Aegean Islands. These populations are also known under the name Ophrys pelinaea. Andrena gravida males are attracted and seen pollinating the flowers. The flowers are very polymorphic.
© Jelle Devalez
The strawberry poison-dart frog (Dendrobates pumilio) is a strikingly polymorphic species, with over a dozen different colour morphs.
The bright colouration of this morph is aposematic, warning potential predators that it is poisonous.
“Papilio memnon, the great Mormon, is a large butterfly native to southern Asia that belongs to the swallowtail family. It is widely distributed and has thirteen subspecies. The female is polymorphic and with mimetic forms.”
China. Guangxi province.
Jiuxian Village, ancient village near Yangshuo
The Great Mormon (Papilio memnon) is a large butterfly that belongs to the swallowtail family and is found in southern Asia. It is widely distributed and has thirteen subspecies. The female is polymorphic and with mimetic forms.
An adult female Peninsula Mole Skink from Ocala National Forest. Of the five races of this species, this one is the most polymorphic in tail coloration, with colors ranging from purple and lavender through pink, orange, and yellow. Pretty much every color but bright red or blue can be found in various populations throughout its range.
Polymorphic (3 different shapes - trident, mitten, oval). At base of stairs. Sassafras albidum. Native tree, common in NYC. Beautiful fall foliage. Inwood Hill Park, NYC. Post #9 The City Room series in the New York Times - Autumn 2011
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'Nomathemba', installation, 2021
'Nomathemba' is een inter- en multi-dimensionaal gesprek. Experimenteel en voortvloeiend uit de ‘Alakondre Krutu’ met kunstenaars aangesloten bij Readytex Art Gallery.
Deze installatie is ook een gesprek tussen Kurt Nahar en EdKe. Voor EdKe heeft dit kunstwerk tot doel een ’magische polymorfe substantie’ te doen activeren. Deze substantie van kleur prikkelt alle zintuigen (Taussig, 2010). Kurt Nahar relateert het kunstwerk aan Nomathemba: de moeder van vertrouwen en hoop; een godin die over al haar kinderen waakt. Kurt stelt: "Ze verschijnt in moeilijke tijden als hoopgevend.”
Het kunstwerk is onderdeel van het onderzoeksproject 'deeep blue', van Miguel Keerveld. De verbeelding van het menselijke en het niet-menselijke is gebaseerd op de verstrengeling van het biologische, geologische, mechanische en spirituele: een cyborg feminist performance van het bovenmenselijke. Daarom bestaat het kunstwerk uit 55 onzichtbare brieven die zich via maskers manifesteren.
Bron: 'What Color Is the Sacred', Michael Taussig (AU)
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'Nomathemba' is an inter- and multi-dimensional conversation. Experimental and resulting from the ‘Alakondre Krutu’ with artists affiliated with Readytex Art Gallery.
This installation is also a conversation between Kurt Nahar and EdKe. For EdKe, the aim of this artwork is to activate a ‘magical polymorphic substance’. This substance of color triggers all senses (Taussig, 2010). Kurt Nahar relates the artwork to Nomathemba: the mother of trust and hope; a goddess who watches over all her children. Kurt says: "She appears in difficult times as the giver of hope.”
The artwork is part of the research project 'deeep blue', of Miguel Keerveld. The imagining of the human and the non-human is based on the entanglement of the biological, geological, mechanical and spiritual: a cyborg feminist performance of the superhuman. This is why the artwork consists of 55 invisible letters that manifest themselves through masks.
Source: 'What Color Is the Sacred', Michael Taussig (AU)
What: 'UDUBAKI part one'
When: December 10, 2021-January 1, 2022
Where: Readytex Art Gallery, Steenbakkerijstraat 30, Paramaribo, Suriname
PHOTO Courtesy Readytex Art Gallery (RAG)/Gilbert Jacott
Cavansite, whose name is derived from its chemical composition, calcium vanadium silicate, is a deep blue hydrous calcium vanadium phyllosilicate mineral, occurring as a secondary mineral in basaltic and andesitic rocks along with a variety of zeolite minerals. Discovered in 1967 in Malheur County, Oregon, cavansite is a relatively rare mineral. It is polymorphic with the even rarer mineral, pentagonite. It is most frequently found in Poona, India and in the Deccan Traps, a large igneous province.
Polymorphic jewelry. Can be worn as a medal, a double brooch connected with chains, a small brooch or a pendant.
Available at my Etsy shop
China. Guangxi province.
Jiuxian Village, ancient village near Yangshuo
The Great Mormon (Papilio memnon) is a large butterfly that belongs to the swallowtail family and is found in southern Asia. It is widely distributed and has thirteen subspecies. The female is polymorphic and with mimetic forms.
Inside view @ Faliro in Greece, 2011
Design + construction: Werner Maritsas
Materials: plywood + metal
Dimensions 2.50X2.50X2.55
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Consensus Bayesian phylogeny of the Daphnia pulex species complex based on the mitochondrial ND5 gene.The alignment contains 398 sequences of length 496 nt with 241 polymorphic nt positions of which 204 are phylogenetically informative (excluding the outgroup). Posterior probabilities are indicated on the nodes of the tree and are not shown if less than 0.80. The tree is rooted using an ND5 sequence from Daphnia obtusa. Triangles represent clusters that are collapsed to save space and the number of individuals included is shown in parentheses. The large letters indicate the three major groups within the D. pulex species complex: A = tenebrosa; B = pulicaria; C = pulex. The two or three-letter code names of some individuals correspond to sampling locations as follows: ARG = Argentina, BOL = Bolivia, CHI = Chile, CT = Connecticut, USA. The expanded version of this tree showing all individuals is available in Figure S1.
Nuevas hojas.
Hosto berriak.
Nouvelles feuilles.
New leaves.
Arbustos caducifolios y rizomatosos de hasta 1,5 m de alto. Corteza gris clara, con escamas papiráceas. Yemas pardo rojizas oscuras, subglobosas, de unos 2 mm. Hojasverdes, a menudo tornándose parduscas con la edad, polimorfas, oblongas, elíptica y a veces lanceoladas, ovadas u oblanceoladas, de 3-10 cm de largo x 1-5 cm de ancho, bastante gruesas y duras, base de redondeada a cuneada, margen plano o revoluto, con 2-3 dientes redondeados a cada lado, ápice anchamente redondeado, haz lustroso y dispersamente pubescente o glabrescente, envés densamente pubescente, peciolo de unos 7 mm. Bellotas solitarias o en parejas, subsésiles o con pedúnculo de 10-18 mm, con cúpula de 10-12 mm de alto x 15-25 mm de ancho, nuez ovoide, marrón, de 12-25 x 14-18 mm. Especie nativa de Texas, Nuevo México y Oklahoma, en Estados Unidos. En Iturraran se encuentra en la zona 1.
Zuhaixka hosto erorkorrak eta errizomadunak, 1,5 m garai gehienez. Azala gris argia, ezkata papirazeoekin. Begiak arre gorrixka ilunak, ia esferikoak, 2 mm ingurukoak. Hostoak berdeak, adinarekin askotan arrexka bihurtzen dira, polimorfoak, luzangak, eliptikoak eta, batzuetan, lantzeolatuak, obatuak eta oblantzeolatuak, 3-10 cm luze x 1-5 cm zabal, aski lodiak eta gogorrak, oinaldea biribila, falka itxurakoa edo tartekoa, ertza laua edo kanpora kiribildua, 2-3 hortz biribilekin alde bakoitzean, punta biribil zabala, gainaldea distiratsua eta han-hemen ilaunduna edo ia glabroa, azpialdea ile-janzki trinkoduna, 7 mm inguruko pezioloa. Ezkurrak banaka edo binaka agertzen dira, ia eseriak edo 10-18 mm-ko pedunkuluarekin, kupula 10-12 mm garai x 15-25 mm zabal da, hurra arrautza formakoa da, marroia, 12-25 x 14-18 mm-koa. Espeziearen jatorria: Amerikako Estatu Batuetako Texas, Mexiko Berria eta Oklahoma. Iturraranen 1. gunean dago.
Arbustes à feuillage caduc et à rhizomes de jusqu’à 1,5 m de hauteur. Écorce gris clair, avec écailles papyracées. Bourgeons brun rougeâtre foncés, sous-globuleux, de quelques 2 mm. Feuilles vertes, souvent brunâtres avec l’âge, polymorphes, oblongues, elliptique et parfois lancéolées, ovales ou oblancéolées, de 3-10 cm de longueur x 1-5 cm de largeur, assez épaisses et dures, base d’arrondie à cunée, bord plat ou retourné, avec 2-3 dents arrondies de chaque côté, sommet largement arrondi, adaxial lustré et rarement pubescent ou glabrescent, abaxial densément pubescent, pétiole de quelques 7 mm. Glands solitaires ou en couples, sous-sessiles ou avec pédoncule de 10-18 mm, avec coupole de 10-12 mm de hauteur x 15-25 mm de largeur, noix ovoïde, marron, de 12-25 x 14-18 mm. Espèce originaire du Texas, du Nouveau Mexique et de l’Oklahoma, aux États-Unis. À Iturraran elle se trouve dans la zone 1.
Rhizome and deciduous bushes up to 1.5 m tall. Light grey bark, with papyraceous scales. Dark reddish brown buds, subglobose, around 2 mm. Green leaves, often turning brown with age, polymorphic, oblong, elliptic and sometimes lanceolate, ovate or oblanceolate, 3-10 cm long x 1-5 cm wide, rather thick and hard, round to cuneate base, rolled or flat edge, with 2-3 rounded teeth on each side, broadly rounded tip, shiny upper face and pubescent or glabrescent in place, underneath densely pubescent, petiole of around 7 mm. Single acorns or in pairs, subsessiles or with 10-18 mm peduncle, with 10-12 mm high x 15-25 mm wide cupule, ovoid nut, brown, 12-25 x 14-18 mm. Species native to Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma in the United States. Located in zone 1 in Iturraran.
Australia has very few gull species, and the Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) is the most common of the three regular gulls found in Australia. They are similar in size to a Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla), and act somewhat like a cross between a Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) and a Laughing Gull. In flight, the ebony wingtips and shimmery silvery wing coverts and body plumage somehow achieve a chameleon effect, making the birds look at one moment darker and the next lighter than you would expect from a Silver Gull. For all those who dread a trip to the landfills of the Delaware Valley in search of rare gulls among the polymorphic common species, Australia must seem a paradise: only three species to learn and only one is commonly encountered. To the true gull enthusiast, the lack of gull diversity is practically shocking. (Photographed at The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
The Polymorphic Plastic Parade (Tipi tour 09), www.plasticparade.org/ came to Austin. The members of the project had a discussion about the project at the MASS Gallery.
This was very interesting. It was a great idean and I enjoyed discovering how the idea came about and how they accomplished it.
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A species of wader in the Haematopodidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand. The Maori name is torea-pango. They are also known as 'red bills'. "Variable" refers to the frontal plumage, which ranges from pied through mottled to all black. They are polymorphic meaning they have different genetic variants. Blacker birds are more common in the south. All Stewart Island variable oystercatchers are black. The have pink legs, an orange eye ring and red beaks. They are often seen in pairs on the coast all around New Zealand. During breeding, the pair will defend their territory, sometimes aggressively. Once mated pairs rarely divorce. After breeding they may be seen within flocks, or on the edges of flocks, of black and white South Island Pied Oystercatcher (SIPO) which also have vivid orange beaks. After breeding they may even form small flocks of their own. Males are around 678 grams and females slightly larger at around 724 grams. Variables can be identified as they are slightly larger than the SIPO - SIPO are around 550 grams. Occasionally totally black but if they are pied (black and white) they can be easily confused with SIPO. The variable species has less definition between the black and the white area, as well as a mottled band on the leading edges of the underwing. Variables also have a smaller white rump patch which is only a band across the base of the tail rather than a wide wedge shape reaching up to the middle of the back as in the SIPO. When mottled they are sometimes called 'smudgies'. They feed on molluscs, crabs and marine worms. After heavy rain, they sometime go inland in search of earthworms. They can open a shellfish by either hammering a hole in it or getting the bill between the two shells (of a bivalve) and twisting them apart. They breed in North Island, South Island, Stewart Island, and Chatham Islands. They do not breed inland or beside rivers although the SIPO does. They nest on the shore between rocks or on sand dunes by making a scrape out of the sand or shingle, sometimes lined with some seaweed. When in flight they make a high pitched 'kleep kleep' sound. They usually lay 2-3 eggs but they can lay up to 5. The eggs are typically stone coloured with small brown patches all over. Eggs hatch in 25-32 days. Chicks are well camouflaged by their colour and can fly in about 6 weeks. The bird lives up to about 27 years.
Impact event crystallization from living Siphonophore or Chondrophore (Cnidarian Hydrozoa medusa jelly) Marine Invertebrate. This is not Silicate Quartz material. Paragonal.
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For other uses, see Butterfly (disambiguation) and Butterflies (disambiguation).
Butterflies
Temporal range: Palaeocene–Present, 56–0 Ma
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Papilio machaon
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Suborder:Rhopalocera
Subgroups
Superfamily Hedyloidea:
Hedylidae
Superfamily Papilionoidea:
Hesperiidae
Lycaenidae
Nymphalidae
Papilionidae
Pieridae
Riodinidae
Butterflies (Rhopalocera) are insects that have large, often brightly coloured wings, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the superfamilies Hedyloidea (moth-butterflies in the Americas) and Papilionoidea (all others). The oldest butterfly fossils have been dated to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago, though they may have originated earlier.
Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like other holometabolan insects they undergo complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, expands its wings to dry, and flies off.
Some butterflies, especially in the tropics, have several generations in a year, while others have a single generation, and a few in cold locations may take several years to pass through their entire life cycle.[citation needed]
Butterflies are often polymorphic, and many species make use of camouflage, mimicry, and aposematism to evade their predators.[1] Some, like the monarch and the painted lady, migrate over long distances. Many butterflies are attacked by parasites or parasitoids, including wasps, protozoans, flies, and other invertebrates, or are preyed upon by other organisms. Some species are pests because in their larval stages they can damage domestic crops or trees; other species are agents of pollination of some plants. Larvae of a few butterflies (e.g., harvesters) eat harmful insects, and a few are predators of ants, while others live as mutualists in association with ants. Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts. The Smithsonian Institution says "butterflies are certainly one of the most appealing creatures in nature".[2]
Etymology
Possibly the original butter-fly.[3] A male brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) in flight.
The Oxford English Dictionary derives the word straightforwardly from Old English butorflēoge, butter-fly; similar names in Old Dutch and Old High German show that the name is ancient, but modern Dutch and German use different words (vlinder and Schmetterling) and the common name often varies substantially between otherwise closely related languages. A possible source of the name is the bright yellow male of the brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni); another is that butterflies were on the wing in meadows during the spring and summer butter season while the grass was growing.[3][4]
Paleontology
Further information: Prehistoric Lepidoptera
The earliest Lepidoptera fossils date to the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, around 200 million years ago.[5] Butterflies evolved from moths, so while the butterflies are monophyletic (forming a single clade), the moths are not. The oldest known butterfly is Protocoeliades kristenseni from the Palaeocene aged Fur Formation of Denmark, approximately 55 million years old, which belongs to the family Hesperiidae (skippers).[6] Molecular clock estimates suggest that butterflies originated sometime in the mid-Cretaceous, but only significantly diversified during the Cenozoic,[7][8] with one study suggesting a North American origin for the group.[8] The oldest American butterfly is the Late Eocene Prodryas persephone from the Florissant Fossil Beds,[9][10] approximately 34 million years old.[11]
checking electrical connections @ Faliro in Greece, 2011
Design + construction: Werner Maritsas
Materials: plywood + metal
Dimensions 2.50X2.50X2.55
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Full view from the first fitting 15.10.2011 @ Faliro, Attica -Greece, 2011
Design + construction: Werner Maritsas
Materials: plywood + metal
Dimensions 2.50X2.50X2.55
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An adult Scott Bar Salamander from northern California. This newly described species (2005) fits the bill of a subspecies, or even a form, much better. The juveniles are strongly patterned with a reddish-orange vertebral stripe, like the closely related and geographically proximate Del Norte Salamander (Plethodon elongatus). However, unlike the Del Norte Salamander, which retains the striping or turns solid brown as an adult, the Scott Bar Salamander turns grayish-brown and develops silver flecking all over the body, just like the closely related and geographically proximate Siskiyou Mountains Salamander (Plethodon stormi). Juvenile Siskiyou Mountains Salamanders are colored/patterned like the adults and was originally described as a subspecies of the Del Norte Salamander. The Scott Bar Salamander seems like an intermediate step between the two and therefore acts more like a subspecies of a larger, polymorphic population.
China. Guangxi province.
Jiuxian Village, ancient village near Yangshuo
The Great Mormon (Papilio memnon) is a large butterfly that belongs to the swallowtail family and is found in southern Asia. It is widely distributed and has thirteen subspecies. The female is polymorphic and with mimetic forms.
found on Baker Street, South Walpole, Massachusetts
Caltha palustris (Kingcup, Marsh Marigold) is a herbaceous perennial plant of the buttercup family, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woods in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
It becomes most luxuriant in partial shade, but is rare on peat. In the UK, it is probably one of the most ancient British native plants, surviving the glaciations and flourishing after the last retreat of the ice, in a landscape inundated with glacial meltwaters.
The plant is a herbaceous perennial growing. The leaves are rounded to kidney-shaped, with a bluntly serrated margin and a thick, waxy texture. Stems are hollow.
The flowers are yellow, with 4-9 (mostly 5) petal-like sepals and many yellow stamens; they are born in early spring to late summer. The flowers are visited by a great variety of insects for pollen and for the nectar secreted from small depressions, one on each side of each carpel. Carpels form into green sac-like follicles each opening to release several seeds.
It is a highly polymorphic species, showing continuous and independent variation in many features. Forms in the UK may be divided into two subspecies: Caltha palustris subsp. palustris, and Caltha palustris subsp. minor.
It is sometimes considered a weed in clayey garden soils, where every piece of its root will survive and spread. In warm free-draining soils, it simply dies away.
As is the case with many members of the Ranunculaceae, all parts of the plant can be irritant or poisonous. Skin rashes and dermatitis have been reported from excessive handling of the plant.
with many thanks to Paul Downing and quoted from wiki.