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Impact event crystallization from living Siphonophore or Chondrophore (Cnidarian Hydrozoa medusa jelly) Marine Invertebrate. This is not Silicate Quartz material. Paragonal.
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
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This is a really variable species, with lots of named varieties. Most botanists tend not to put much faith in varietal status (statuses?), but rather look at this stuff as a widely distributed entity...a "polymorphic" species.
It is superficially similar to Stachys, and can fool you in the field, until you get close up to it. Although they look similar, Stachys and Teucrium reside in different subfamiles within the Lamiaceae.
Visiting one of my mothing lights set up at cabin 3 at Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, here in the Jersey pinelands.
Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Ian J. Wang & Kyle Summers (2012). Mate choice and the genetic basis for colour variation in a polymorphic dart frog: inferences from a wild pedigree. Molecular Ecology, 21, 3879-3892. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05644.x
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...
The Butterfly House at Wisley.
A late winter, early spring visit to RHS Wisley Gardens near Ripley in Surrey. As well as the gardens, the tropical greenhouse was transformed into a Butterfly House for the winter.
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.
Its range includes north-eastern India (including Sikkim, Assam and Nagaland), Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Andaman Islands (stragglers only), western, southern and eastern China (including Hainan), Taiwan, southern Japan including Ryukyu Islands, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Malaysia and Indonesia (Sumatra, Mentawai Islands, Nias, Batu, Simeulue, Bangka, Java, Kalimantan and the Lesser Sunda Islands).
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
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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 .
Die Ausserirdische 1/The extraterrist woman 1, 1986
Beton, Stahl/concrete, steel, 40 x 120 cm
During the early 1980s, a lively exchange developed between the Rhineland artist collective Paul Pozzozza Museum (PPM) from Düsseldorf and the Frankfurt-based musician and artist Alfred 23 Harth (A23H). Among the active members of PPM was Marcel Hardung, who, together with other protagonists of the group, came into contact with Harth after one of his experimental concerts at the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle. This meeting marked the beginning of an ongoing artistic relationship that reached beyond regional borders and media distinctions.
At the time, Harth was running the waschSalon gallery in Frankfurt, a self‑organized space dedicated to presenting avant‑garde art and performance. The gallery quickly became a platform where artists from different backgrounds—visual, musical, and conceptual—could meet. Several times, Harth invited and exhibited the artists of the PPM circle at the waschSalon, thereby bringing Düsseldorf tendencies into dialogue with Frankfurt’s own experimental currents. In addition, he purchased several works from the artists who exhibited at waschSalon. Although many of these works cannot be traced today, this act of collecting reveals the degree of engagement and commitment Harth maintained toward emerging artists and their practices.
The visual communication of the waschSalon exhibitions was itself a product of this networked creativity. Invitation cards, posters, and similar material were printed at Zypresse, a local press in Frankfurt that had become part of the gallery’s infrastructure. The contact with Zypresse originated through one of Harth’s saxophone students, who was not only a musician but also a graphic designer. This student designed the logo and typography for waschSalon, thereby shaping its graphic identity and bridging Harth’s dual worlds of music pedagogy and visual experimentation.
Taken together, these interconnections illustrate how artistic initiatives in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt of the period operated in a transdisciplinary spirit. PPM’s conceptual play with the notion of the “museum,” Hardung’s contributions within this group, Harth’s polymorphic practice as musician, visual artist, and gallerist, and the involvement of printers, students, and designers—all were woven into a shared fabric. The outcome was not only the staging of exhibitions and concerts but also the creation of ephemeral networks and friendships, whose traces are now scattered across stories, printed matter, and a few surviving works of art.
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Hx: 17 m/o male, h/o polymorphic ventricular tachycardia of unknown etiology with ICD episode of cyanosis, meds: sotalol, Mg, Keppra (h/o seizures)
Indian Paradise Flycatcher
The Indian paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) is a medium-sized passerine bird native to Asia that is widely distributed. As the global population is considered stable, it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2004. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and Myanmar.
Males have elongated central tail feathers, and a black and rufous plumage in some populations, while others have white plumage. Females are short-tailed with rufous wings and a black head. Indian paradise flycatchers feed on insects, which they capture in the air often below a densely canopied tree.
Three subspecies are recognized:
Himalayan paradise flycatcher (T. p. leucogaster) – (Swainson, 1838): Originally described as a separate species. Breeds in the western Tian Shan, in Afghanistan, in the north of Pakistan, in northwestern and central India, in Nepal’s western and central regions; populations occurring in the east of Pakistan and in the south of India migrate towards the foothills of the Himalayas in spring for breeding.
T. p. paradisi – (Linnaeus, 1758): breeds in central and southern India, central Bangladesh and south-western Myanmar; populations occurring in Sri Lanka in the winter season are non-breeding.
Ceylon paradise flycatcher (T. p. ceylonensis) – (Zarudny & Harms, 1912): found in Sri Lanka.
Adult Indian paradise flycatchers are 19–22 cm (7.5–8.7 in) long. Their heads are glossy black with a black crown and crest, their black bill round and sturdy, their eyes black. Female are rufous on the back with a greyish throat and underparts. Their wings are 86–92 mm (3.4–3.6 in) long. Young males look very much like females but have a black throat and blue-ringed eyes. As adults they develop up to 24 cm (9.4 in) long tail feathers with two central tail feathers growing up to 30 cm (12 in) long drooping streamers.
Young males are rufous and have short tails. They acquire long tails in their second or third year. Adult males are either predominantly bright rufous above or predominantly white. Some specimens show some degree of intermediacy between rufous and white. Long-tailed rufous birds are generally devoid of shaft streaks on the wing and tail feathers, while in white birds the shaft streaks, and sometimes the edges of the wing and tail feathers are black.
In the early 1960s, 680 long-tailed males were examined that are contained in collections of the British Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum, Peabody Museum, Carnegie Museum, American Museum of Natural History, United States National Museum and Royal Ontario Museum. The specimens came from almost the entire range of the species, though some areas were poorly represented. The relative frequency of the rufous and white plumage types varies geographically. Rufous birds are rare in the extreme southeastern part of the species' range. Throughout the Indian area and, to a lesser extent, in China, asymmetrically patterned intermediates occur. Intermediates are rare or absent throughout the rest of the range of the species. In general, long-tailed males are
predominantly rufous with some white in wings and tail — collected in Turkestan, Kashmir, northern India, Punjab, Maharashtra, Sikkim and in Sri Lanka;
predominantly rufous with some white in wings — collected in Iran, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Punjab, Kashmir, northern and central India, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar, Nepal;
predominantly rufous with some white in tail — collected in Punjab, northern and central India, Kolkata, Sri Lanka and in the Upper Yangtze Valley in China;
predominantly white with some rufous in tail and wings — collected in Kashmir, Maharashtra, Sichuan and North China;
predominantly white with some rufous in tail — collected in Maharashtra and Fuzhou, China;
predominantly white with back partly rufous — collected in Punjab and Chennai;
moulting from rufous into white plumage — collected in North Bihar.
Possible interpretations of this phenomenon are : males may be polymorphic for rufous and white plumage colour; rufous birds may be sub-adults; and there may even be two sympatric species distinguishable only in the male.
They are migratory and spend the winter season in tropical Asia. There are resident populations in southern India and Sri Lanka, hence both visiting migrants and the locally breeding subspecies occur in these areas in winter.
According to Linné’s first description Indian paradise flycatchers were only distributed in India. Later ornithologists observed this spectacular bird in other areas, and based on differences in plumage of males described several subspecies.
Indian paradise flycatchers inhabit thick forests and well-wooded habitats from Central Asia to south-eastern China, all over India and Sri Lanka to Myanmar.
Indian paradise flycatchers are noisy birds uttering sharp skreek calls. They have short legs and sit very upright whilst perched prominently, like a shrike. They are insectivorous and hunt in flight in the understorey. In the afternoons they dive from perches to bathe in small pools of water.
The breeding season lasts from May to July. Being socially monogamous both male and female take part in nest-building, incubation, brooding and feeding of the young. The incubation period lasts 14 to 16 days and the nestling period 9 to 12 days. Three or four eggs are laid in a neat cup nest made with twigs and spider webs on the end of a low branch. The nest is sometimes built in the vicinity of a breeding pair of drongos, which keep predators away. Chicks hatch in about 21 to 23 days. A case of interspecific feeding has been noted with paradise flycatcher chicks fed by Oriental white-eyes.
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...
Moraceae, paper mulberry, simple alternate whorled opposite, bark light tan pubescent red striations, polymorphic, top leaf scabrous, top bottum leaf pubescent satin
Impact event crystallization from living Siphonophore or Chondrophore (Cnidarian Hydrozoa medusa jelly) Marine Invertebrate. This is not Silicate Quartz material. Paragonal.
Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Ian J. Wang & Kyle Summers (2012). Mate choice and the genetic basis for colour variation in a polymorphic dart frog: inferences from a wild pedigree. Molecular Ecology, 21, 3879-3892. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05644.x
Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Ian J. Wang & Kyle Summers (2012). Mate choice and the genetic basis for colour variation in a polymorphic dart frog: inferences from a wild pedigree. Molecular Ecology, 21, 3879-3892. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05644.x
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...
Bits around the home garden today 5/6/2015 TL005287
Ian Andrews6:28pm Jun 5
Yup...another for Natalina, who must be amassing a fair amount of data from this site!
Natalina Bonassera
March 11
The main aim of this group is to record Merodon equestris sightings to build a picture of its colour form variation in the UK.
Merodon equestris is a polymorphic hoverfly known to have at least 34 different colour forms.
The data gathered from this group will be used in an MSc thesis aiming to shed light on where Merodon equestris is most frequently seen, its emergence times, and geographical spread of colour forms across different areas and habitats in the UK.
I would be very grateful if photos of any sightings of Merodon equestris in the UK could be posted on this group. Please include a photo, date, location, details of habitat type (urban park, garden, meadow, woodland ect.) and grid reference. If you are unsure of what your grid reference is then here is a link to a helpful web site called grid reference finder, where you can find your grid reference www.gridreferencefinder.com/.
This group is open to anyone, whether novice or expert. Here is a link to Steven Falk's photo album of Merodon equestris on Flickr to give you an idea of what this species looks like www.flickr.com/…/63075200@N…/sets/72157629553247540/.
All the records posted on this group will be passed on to the Hoverfly Recording Scheme.
Please join this group, add friends and share it with anyone who records or has an interest in hoverflies!
Thank you!
"A very polymorphic species, varying in size, habit, pubescence, petal length, stamen number, and seed size and surface detail...both autogamous and occasionally cross-pollinated by flies." (Flora of North America). Edge of garden bed, Milton, MA 6/16/13