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Roly poly Dr. Sinister knows how to brighten another dark gloomy day with his adorable smile. I noticed this morning that his lips were quite pink. Maybe even squirrels get chapped lips. LOL
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And if you could hear the whispering of the dream you would hear no other sound...
from the farewell
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Another oldie from my first digital camera, a point and shoot five megapixel Panasonic.
This Yellow-bellied Marmot was found on Mount Evans, Colorado.
I now have 30 tins (thanks to Vivian for my latest 16!!) Way too many to get in one photo!
With some roly poly miniatures!
lipstick :x
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Thíc bài này :)~.
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For such large, almost ungainly-looking creatures, bison are surprisingly nimble and deceptively fast. In Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
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Purple-backed Fairy-wren (prior to 2018 called verigated fairy wren)
Scientific Name: Malurus assimilis
Description: The purple-backed fairywren is on average 14.5 cm (5.5 in) long.[citation needed] Like other fairywrens, it is notable for its marked sexual dimorphism, males adopting a highly visible breeding plumage of brilliant iridescent blue and chestnut contrasting with black and grey-brown. The brightly coloured crown and ear tufts are prominently featured in breeding displays. The male in breeding plumage has striking bright blue ear coverts and blue-purple crown and forehead, a black throat and nape, a blue-purple upper back, chestnut shoulders and a bluish-grey tail. The wings are drab brown and the belly white. Within subspecies assimilis, the plumage of both sexes is becomes paler from east to west across its range, with those of northwestern Australia paler still. Non-breeding males, females and juveniles of subspecies assimilis are predominantly grey-brown in colour, while those of subspecies rogersi and dulcis are mainly blue-grey. Males of all subspecies have a black bill and lores (eye-ring and bare skin between eyes and bill), while females of subspecies assimilis and rogersi have a red-brown bill and bright rufous lores, and those of subspecies dulcis have white lores. Immature males will develop black bills by six months of age, and moult into breeding plumage the first breeding season after hatching, though this may be incomplete with residual brownish plumage and may take another year or two to perfect. Both sexes moult in autumn after breeding, with males assuming an eclipse non-breeding plumage. They will moult again into nuptial plumage in winter or spring. The blue coloured plumage, particularly the ear-coverts, of the breeding males is highly iridescent due to the flattened and twisted surface of the barbules. The blue plumage also reflects ultraviolet light strongly, and so may be even more prominent to other fairywrens, whose colour vision extends into that part of the spectrum.
Distribution and habitat: The purple-backed fairywren is widely distributed over much of the Australian continent. It is replaced in southwestern Western Australia by the red-winged and blue-breasted fairywrens, and by the lovely fairywren north of a line between Normanton and Townsville in north Queensland. Some early evidence suggested subspecies assimilis may be nomadic, but later more detailed fieldwork indicated it was generally sedentary, with pairs of purple-backed fairywrens maintaining territories year-round. There is little information on the other subspecies.
It is found in scrubland with plenty of vegetation providing dense cover. It prefers rocky outcrops and patches of Acacia, Eremophila or lignum in inland and northern Australia. Fieldwork in the Northern Territory showed that the species preferred open woodland dominated by thickets of lancewood (Acacia shirleyi) and bullwaddy (Macropteranthes kekwickii) than eucalyptus. Chenopod scrubland with plants such as saltbush, bluebush, black rolypoly (Sclerolaena muricata), nitre goosefoot (Chenopodium nitrariaceum), grass tussocks, and overstory plants such as black box (Eucalyptus largiflorens) and native cypress (Callitris).
Clearing of native vegetation for agriculture in the Western Australian wheatbelt and Murray-Mallee region of Victoria had a negative impact on the species, as does the consumption of saltbush by cattle.
Breeding: Breeding can occur at any time in inland Australia, with birds taking the opportunity to nest after heavy rains, although only one brood is usually raised each year.
The nest is a round or domed structure made of loosely woven grasses, twigs, bark and spider webs, with an entrance in one side, and is often larger than those of other fairywrens. Nest measured at Shark Bay ranged from 9 to 11 cm tall and 5 to 9 cm wide.
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Seems to be a nervous, but very active bird here, preferring to stick to the thicket, rarely coming out in the open, unlike their cousin the Splendid Fairy Wren.
Purple-backed Fairywren
Scientific Name: Malurus assimilis
It was long considered a subspecies of the variegated fairywren until its genetic distinctness led to it once again becoming a separate species in 2018.
Description: The purple-backed fairywren is on average 14.5 cm (5.5 in) long.[citation needed] Like other fairywrens, it is notable for its marked sexual dimorphism, males adopting a highly visible breeding plumage of brilliant iridescent blue and chestnut contrasting with black and grey-brown. The brightly coloured crown and ear tufts are prominently featured in breeding displays. The male in breeding plumage has striking bright blue ear coverts and blue-purple crown and forehead, a black throat and nape, a blue-purple upper back, chestnut shoulders and a bluish-grey tail. The wings are drab brown and the belly white. Within subspecies assimilis, the plumage of both sexes is becomes paler from east to west across its range, with those of northwestern Australia paler still. Non-breeding males, females and juveniles of subspecies assimilis are predominantly grey-brown in colour, while those of subspecies rogersi and dulcis are mainly blue-grey. Males of all subspecies have a black bill and lores (eye-ring and bare skin between eyes and bill), while females of subspecies assimilis and rogersi have a red-brown bill and bright rufous lores, and those of subspecies dulcis have white lores. Immature males will develop black bills by six months of age, and moult into breeding plumage the first breeding season after hatching, though this may be incomplete with residual brownish plumage and may take another year or two to perfect.[23] Both sexes moult in autumn after breeding, with males assuming an eclipse non-breeding plumage. They will moult again into nuptial plumage in winter or spring. The blue coloured plumage, particularly the ear-coverts, of the breeding males is highly iridescent due to the flattened and twisted surface of the barbules. The blue plumage also reflects ultraviolet light strongly, and so may be even more prominent to other fairywrens, whose colour vision extends into that part of the spectrum.
Distribution and habitat: The purple-backed fairywren is widely distributed over much of the Australian continent. It is replaced in southwestern Western Australia by the red-winged and blue-breasted fairywrens, and by the lovely fairywren north of a line between Normanton and Townsville in north Queensland. Some early evidence suggested subspecies assimilis may be nomadic, but later more detailed fieldwork indicated it was generally sedentary, with pairs of purple-backed fairywrens maintaining territories year-round. There is little information on the other subspecies. It is found in scrubland with plenty of vegetation providing dense cover. It prefers rocky outcrops and patches of Acacia, Eremophila or lignum in inland and northern Australia. Fieldwork in the Northern Territory showed that the species preferred open woodland dominated by thickets of lancewood (Acacia shirleyi) and bullwaddy (Macropteranthes kekwickii) than eucalyptus.[29] Chenopod scrubland with plants such as saltbush, bluebush, black rolypoly (Sclerolaena muricata), nitre goosefoot (Chenopodium nitrariaceum), grass tussocks, and overstory plants such as black box (Eucalyptus largiflorens) and native cypress (Callitris). Clearing of native vegetation for agriculture in the Western Australian wheatbelt and Murray-Mallee region of Victoria had a negative impact on the species, as does the consumption of saltbush by cattle.
Breeding: Breeding can occur at any time in inland Australia, with birds taking the opportunity to nest after heavy rains, although only one brood is usually raised each year. The nest is a round or domed structure made of loosely woven grasses, twigs, bark and spider webs, with an entrance in one side, and is often larger than those of other fairywrens. Nest measured at Shark Bay ranged from 9 to 11 cm tall and 5 to 9 cm wide.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple-backed_fairywren)
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Roly Poly or tumbleweeds in the sand hills.
Sunset at Perry Sandhills. N.S.W
According to geologists, the Perry Sandhills originated after
an ice age (40,000 years ago) and are formed by wind erosion over thousands of years. The dunes are located just outside of Wentworth (6km from PO), and are a unique land formation of 333 hectares (822 acres) of continuously shifting sand dunes.
Skeleton remains of giant mega-fauna (kangaroos, lions, emus and wombats) have been found there. Replicas of these animals are now on show at the Pioneer Museum in Wentworth. Aboriginal tribes used this area to camp and hunt. Evidence of this is still being uncovered as the sands drift.
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Hanging at the bar drinking a big glass of wine. Go big or Go home eh!!! lol
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Taken at the Down the Hatch Harbor and Airstrip
I was shooting slime mold fruiting bodies and he wandered by. It was interesting to see this critter run daintily among the little spore laden stalks. I noticed that the bug was careful with them, not stepping on the fruit, but weaving among them. I wonder if there is some unknown ecological relationship between them. Or maybe the simple life understands something about the environment.
A 14 segmented terrestrial crustacean, known locally as a slater.
Here it is just starting to uncurl from its defensive curled up shape.
A Roly Poly is much too slow for an Ant, even one wearing an Ant Cam!
(Just when you want to find Ants, they are nowhere to be found... so I had to paint one in.)
Although Ants can only see 1-3 feet in the distance, they rely on chemical processes and physical contact. Different varieties of Ants can lift anywhere from 10-100x their weight and can move at up to equivalent speeds of 20mph (300m/h).
Interesting facts about Roly Polies:
*They are not really bugs, but members of the Crustacean family (shrimp, crabs, crayfish).
*Their defense mechanism is to roll up into a ball (conglobate) when threatened.
*Roly Polys have many different names: Pillbugs, ChiggyPigs, Wood Lice, Doodlebugs, Wood Shrimp, Penny Sows.
*They do not urinate but can drink through both sides of their bodies through strawlike structures called uropods.
*They eat their own feces, a process known as coprophagy....a great Scrabble word!!
*Now you know most of what you need to know about Roly Polies...thanks to Smile on Saturday!!
For Smile on Saturday
Theme: From the Ground
Giant Pill Millipede (I think Zoosphaerium neptunus), Madagascar. These look like huge pillbugs or "roly-polies," but aren't related to them -- pillbugs are crustaceans (related to crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, etc.), but pill millipedes are "myriapods," the group containing millipedes and centipedes. The fact that both critters roll up tight to defend themselves is an interesting example of convergent evolution -- when two animals that are not very closely related evolve similar traits in response to similar environmental pressures. Science aside, they're completely harmless, and kinda cute.
• Pillbug
• Bicho bolita
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Crustacea
Class:Malacostraca
Order:Isopoda
Suborder:Oniscidea
Family:Armadillidiidae
Genus:Armadillidium
Species:A. vulgare
Salinas, Canelones, Uruguay
"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eyes level with her smallest leaf, and take an insects view of its plain. "
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If only I'd had more light here at the bridge rail -- such a wonderful traffic flow of little travelers crossing the creek at eye level for me...
Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of the family Porcellanidae, members of this family can roll into a ball, giving them their common name of "pill bug" or "roly-poly". The most well known example is Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill bug.