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This mural was spotted one street over from where the Farmer's Market is held in Oakland, California's historic downtown district. What you see is only a fraction of the entire mural. At first I thought I was looking at guns in this mural. But the more I looked, the more I realized they are not guns. This could be about changing environmental toxins into something good, such as flowers. I will have to figure out more about this artwork.
The Ecuador Poison Frog (Ameerega bilinguis), a species of poison dart frog native to the rainforests, rivers, and marshes of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru. These amphibians are known for their brilliant, warning colors and produce skin toxins from their diet of invertebrates.
After a walk through the forest I liked this overturned fly agaric and its offspring immediately and decided to capture them in a vertical panorama from 5 horizontal shots using a fisheye. Taken by hand. I had to trick around a bit to put them in post processing together.
A stack of 6 focus points at a single exposure level.
Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet or columbine) is a genus of about 60-70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals of their flowers. The genus name Aquilegia is derived from the Latin word for eagle (aquila), because the shape of the flower petals, which are said to resemble an eagle's claw. The common name "columbine" comes from the Latin for "dove", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. The Colorado Blue Columbine (A. caerulea) is the official state flower of Colorado. Large numbers of hybrids are available for the garden, since the European A. vulgaris was hybridized with other European and North American varieties. Aquilegia species are very interfertile, and will self-sow. Some varieties are short-lived so are better treated as biennials.
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Zygaena ephialtes is day-flying species of burnet moth found in Europe. It is typically found in xeric habitats, and populations have recently decreased. It also exhibits Müllerian mimicry with other species, like Amata phegea.
Zygaena ephialtes typically fly during the day. Adult butterfly flight is often characterized as slow. As characteristic of Zygaenidae moths, they have prominent spots on their wings, which alerts predators that they contain toxins.
Die Falter erreichen eine Flügelspannweite von 30 bis 40 Millimetern. Sie sind, wie ihr deutscher Name schon sagt, veränderlich, da die Farbe der fünf bis sechs Flecken auf ihren Vorderflügeln stark variieren kann. Die Flecken können von rot über gelb bis weiß gefärbt sein. Das wichtigste Erkennungs- und Unterscheidungsmerkmal ist der rote, manchmal auch gelbe Segmentring (Gürtel) auf dem hinteren Bereich des Hinterleibs. Die Hinterflügel sind rot, gelblich oder komplett schwarz gefärbt und haben einen feinen, schwarzen Außenrand. Auf ihnen findet man manchmal ein bis zwei weitere, helle Punkte. Die Spitzen der Fühler sind weiß.
Die Raupen werden etwa 22 Millimeter lang. Sie haben eine grünlichgelbe Grundfärbung und tragen eine Seitenlinie aus kleinen schwarzen Punkten und je eine weitere solche Linie aus größeren, manchmal quadratischen Flecken, beidseits des Rückens. Auf diesem verläuft eine feine, meist unterbrochene Rückenlinie.
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The zebra longwing butterfly caterpillars eat the leaves of passion flowers. The passion flower contains a toxin that gives the zebra longwing an unpleasant taste and makes it poisonous to predators. The butterfly drinks the nectar of a wide range of flowers.
One of the worlds most intelligent birds ,eclipsing even dogs and monkeys. Sadly, susceptible to toxins, persecution. lead head roofing nails etc, etc, etc a once common bird now decreasing at an alarming rate.
1080 and similar poisons used for predator control does huge mischief to these birds that have nothing in they environment unknown to their investigations....
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Scientific name Amanita muscaria, the common name of this mushroom comes from the medieval practice of breaking up the caps and leaving them in milk to stupefy flys. This mushroom also has hallucinogenic properties.
It is considered to be very toxic in most modern field guides, however, in the past it was frequently consumed in parts of Europe, Asia and North America after preparation. Studies have shown that there are ways to efficiently remove the toxins and render it safe for consumption, which explains its use in the past. This is something that wasn’t common knowledge until recently. I don’t think I’d take my chances with it though, we were in the forest collecting edible mushrooms when we came across this.
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The "golden frog" (Brachycephalus ephippium) stands out for its orange color and size, measuring just two centimeters in length. It presents orange pigmentation due to a toxin present in the skin, used to defend against predators. It does not jump, like other frogs, but walks on the ground and between leaves. He has two functional fingers on his hands and three on his feet.
O "sapinho dourado" (Brachycephalus ephippium) chama atenção pela cor laranja e pelo tamanho, medindo apenas dois centímetros de comprimento. Apresenta a pigmentação alaranjada devido a uma toxina presente na pele, usada para defesa contra predadores. Não pula, como outros sapos, mas caminha pelo chão e entre as folhas. Tem dois dedos funcionais nas mãos e três nos pés.
Two cooling towers stand on the shores of the River Schelde near to Antwerpen. Whilst they appear to be belching vast quantities of polluted gases into the atmosphere in reality it clouds of gas are predominantly made of steam. Inside the massive towers is a drenching system that removes all the toxins from the combustion process.
The shot was taken around 0900 local time and if you look closely you can spot the moon.
I'm not the face with secrets
Too scared to read your mind
'Cause when your life's on the table
Then there is not much left to hide
Begging for contagion
These hospitals won't save us
And when these toxins leave us
It's sad when we'll be bleachless
'Cause all you have to say
Is that it's gonna get better
It's gonna get better
But it never does and all
You have to say
Is that it's gonna get better
It's gonna get better
But it never does
It never does
It never does
I'm not sick with depression
I just have all the symptoms
And all the questions
My thoughts can't stabilize
Feeling I can't verbalize
And all you have to say
Is that it's gonna get better
It's gonna get better
But it never does and all
You have to say
Is that it's gonna get better
It's gonna get better
But it never does
It never does
It never does
I keep faith and hovering
Over ink until it perforates
And makes all the ends meet like I
Keep praying it does
It never does
RIP my dearest animal loving friend, may you be surrounded with your furry friends and dear Horses ♥
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This large fierce-looking female robber fly is laying her eggs into a gray-headed coneflower's developing seed head. Even though her shiny black ovipositor is not a stinger I don't think I'd care to get stabbed with its sharp tip. Surprising to me, but very little information is available about the life of robber flies in the Machimus genus. I'm guessing the larvae drop to the ground and burrow down in the soil where they eat soft-bodied bugs there for up to three years before pupating and emerging as adults now in the summer season. I know for sure these adult robber flies dart out and capture any winged bug they can safely handle, quickly stabbing said prey between the eyes or some similar path of least resistance to inject a paralyzing toxin into the body before sucking the dead bug dry.
The Rice Paper butterfly, also called the Paper Kite butterfly, Wood Nymph, or Tree Nymph (Idea leuconoe) is a distinctive black and white butterfly. The wingspan is 95 to 110 cm across.
The larval wood nymphs are similar to monarch caterpillars in that they feed on plants in the Apocenaceae (dogbane) and Asclepiadaceae (milkweed) families. Also like the monarchs, giant wood nymphs are distasteful to predators, and they derive this protection from the toxins produced by their host plants.
Paper Kite on Pagoda Flower
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Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Poisonous. Birds do not eat them. They obtain the toxins from their foodplant. Ragwort sps. The adult moths are also poisonous.
The glade Cannock Chase Staffordshire UK
16th July 2019
DoodlewashOctober2025 prompt: Cat.
Inktober prompt: Onion.
October 27 is National Cat Day!
Did you know, according to folklore, onions can absorb bacteria, viruses, and toxins, so if you put onion slices in your socks while you sleep, you can ward off or cure colds and flu?
Hand drawn with Sharpie pens and painted with Daniel Smith Watercolor on Arches Cold Press.
The Common Crow is found in Asia and Australia. As caterpillars they feed on Milkweed and Oleander, both of which have toxins that protect the caterpillars and butterflies from predators. The same is also true of Monarch butterflies.
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Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet or columbine) is a genus of about 60-70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals of their flowers. The genus name Aquilegia is derived from the Latin word for eagle (aquila), because the shape of the flower petals, which are said to resemble an eagle's claw. The common name "columbine" comes from the Latin for "dove", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. The Colorado Blue Columbine (A. caerulea) is the official state flower of Colorado. Large numbers of hybrids are available for the garden, since the European A. vulgaris was hybridized with other European and North American varieties. Aquilegia species are very interfertile, and will self-sow. Some varieties are short-lived so are better treated as biennials.
Buckeyes are distinctive trees, known for their early spring flowers and for the seeds that have inspired the name of this unique family of trees. The nut-like seeds are shiny and dark brown, with a light-colored spot that gives them the appearance of a deer’s eye. These seeds are popularly believed to bring good luck, and school children especially still carry them in their pockets as a charm. And while highly poisonous, buckeye seeds contain much protein and were used as a food source by Native Americans who boiled and leached them to remove their toxins.
This butterfly is inedible to predators due to the accumulation of toxins ingested from its favourite food plants whilst it is still a caterpillar. It is a member of the Swallowtail family. It is often mimiced by the feamle of the Common Mormon but is told apart by the red on the body of the Common Rose.
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The rice paper butterfly, also called the paper kite butterfly, wood nymph, or tree nymph (Idea leuconoe) is a distinctive black and white butterfly. The wingspan is 95-110 mm across.
The larval wood nymphs are similar to monarch caterpillars in that they feed on plants in the Apocenaceae (dogbane) and Asclepiadaceae (milkweed) families. Also like the monarchs, giant wood nymphs are distasteful to predators. They derive this protection from the toxins produced by their host plants.
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Such an amazing process . . .
I didn't realize the caterpillar feeds on milkweed to use the toxins in the plant to render both itself and the adult unpalatable to predators!
This was a serendipitous find outside a Fed Ex station where I had just mailed a package overseas! Loved the wild grasses which will draw me back in the fall for some milkweed pod seeds and perhaps another shipment!
Newtown Creek is an estuary of the East River and forms part of the border between Brooklyn and Queens. It's also one of the most polluted industrial sites in the US containing toxins, 30 million gallons of spilled oil and raw sewage. It became a Superfund site in September of 2010 and the Environmental Protection Agency has delayed the cleanup until 2032.
This columbine cultivar is perennial that features large, upward facing, fragrant, bright bi-toned flowers with outward curving spurs.
Flowers grow on a long stem above the leaves and have five pointed sepals and five petals with long spurs projecting backwards between the sepals.
Aquilegia comes from the Latin word for eagle in reference to the flower's five spurs which purportedly resemble an eagle's talon.
The plant's seeds and roots are highly poisonous however, and contain cardiogenic toxins which cause both severe gastroenteritis and heart palpitations if consumed as food. Native Americans used very small amounts of Aquilegia root as a treatment for ulcers.[citation needed] However, the medical use of this plant is better avoided due to its high toxicity; columbine poisonings may be fatal.
It is ALWAYS better to wash your hands thoroughly, after handling flowers!
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En esta ocasión recupere del armario una olvidada lente como es el pentacon 135mm 2.8, también conocido como monster bokeh. Queda a mi gusto un acto largo y lejano montado en la olympus omd-em1, pero como todo será cuestion de gustos. Quizá rinda mejor en un sensor FF donde su distancia se corresponde con esos 135mm.
Sobre la especie decir que pese a su apariencia no es tóxica, si bien los expertos recomiendan abstenerse de su consumo pues resulta demasiado sencillo confundirla con otras amanitas toxinas o mortales como es el caso de A. phaloides var. alba, amanita virosa, amanita verna o amanita gemmata (Junquillea),entre otras.
me on the left - aurora on the right
all my drawings are doily representations of environmental toxins
all aurora's pieces are junk mail collages
If you've ever lived in Southern Africa... then I'm pretty sure that the first word that will enter your mind when you see this photo will be... Shongololo?
Most other people will refer to these creatures as "millipedes"... which is derived from Latin... and literally means "one thousand feet"! However... the most feet ever counted on a millipede was a mere 750... from a species known as "Illacme plenipes". Believe it or not... there are more than 12,000 known species of millipede... or Shongololo.
The name "Shongololo" is derived from the Xhosa and Zulu word "ukushonga"... which means to "roll up". This is their defence mechanism against predators (and fussy photographers)... they roll up tightly until the coast is clear again. In extreme cases they might also secrete a foul-smelling toxin... which consists mostly of hydrochloric acid and hydrogen cyanide. I may have harassed this little guy into rolling up into a spiral... but I knew better than to pick him up.
P.S. No Shongololos were hurt while taking this photo. Hugely irritated perhaps... but definitely not hurt. :)
Hypholoma fasciculare, commonly known as the sulphur tuft or clustered woodlover, is a common woodland mushroom, often in evidence when hardly any other mushrooms are to be found. This saprotrophic small gill fungus grows prolifically in large clumps on stumps, dead roots or rotting trunks of broadleaved trees.
The "sulphur tuft" is bitter and poisonous; consuming it can cause vomiting, diarrhea and convulsions. The principal toxin is a steroid known as fasciculol
Bentonite clay can remove toxins from the body and help treat oily skin. Scientists believe that bentonite clay works by adsorbing oils and dirt from the skin. The theory is that bentonite clay adsorbs materials by sticking to their molecules or ions.
"But I feel like it is dissolving my skin" Laawd
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For more than a year, Karen Jenner has visited Nova Scotia’s beaches two or three times a week. But the Canadian’s visits to the Bay of Fundy haven’t all been for fun. Jenner has been on the hunt — for plastic.
Within a year, she has collected more than 2,200 kilograms (about two metric tons) of trash left behind after enormous tides, including plastic bottles and fishing-related waste like lobster bands and ropes, CBC reported.
"It's a drip in the bucket," Jenner told CBC. "There could be 100 of me out doing this, and yet the trash would still be coming in. There's just so much in the water."
Though Jenner is just one person, her effort is helping to address a global issue that has only worsened over the years: plastic pollution. At least 8 to 13 million tons of plastic enter the world’s oceans every year — that’s the equivalent of about one garbage truck every minute. And plastic makes up 73% of the garbage on beaches, according to a report by National Geographic.
Many marine creatures, unable to distinguish between food and plastic, are killed each year as a result of accidentally ingesting waste. Even if animals do not intentionally consume plastic waste, plastic in the ocean breaks down into small particles, called microplastics, that marine life may inadvertently ingest. The plastic waste, which often contains toxins, accumulates in their digestive systems, clogging their organs. Many marine animals also end up entangled or trapped in nets and plastic.
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Final instar, at 7.5 cm a remarkable beast. We have one or more each year on what is an indoor pot plant in temperate climates but here grows all year outside. The caterpillar feeds on Oleander and other toxic plants and is poisonous because of ingested toxins. A very successful moth, widely distributed. The false eyes between segments 4 and 5 open and close as the caterpillar extends and contracts. There are 12 tiny real eyes (six a side) on the small real head (see the comment).
A lone Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) ventures down to the rainforest floor to take a sip of mineral mud at a clay lick. This is a common phenomenon with the larger parrots of the region and was often believed to be due to the fact that the birds ingest the clay to help neutralize toxins in the fruits that they consume. More recent observations suggest that they may simply be obtaining salt – a mineral that is in particularly scarce supply in the western Amazon Basin. Yasuní National Park, Ecuador.
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Horse-chestnut or Conker tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) is a tree native to a small area in the mountains of the Balkans in southeast Europe, in small areas in northern Greece, Albania, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Bulgaria (Pindus Mountains mixed forests and Balkan mixed forests).
The nuts, especially those that are young and fresh, are slightly poisonous, containing alkaloid saponins and glucosides. Although not dangerous to touch, they cause sickness when eaten. Some mammals, notably deer, are able to break down the toxins and eat them safely. They are reputed to be good for horses, but this is unproven and feeding them to horses is not advisable.
In the past, horse-chestnut seeds were used in France and Switzerland for whitening hemp, flax, silk and wool. They contain a soapy juice, fit for washing of linens and stuffs, for milling of caps and stockings, etc., and for fulling of cloth.
Horse-chestnuts can be also used to make jewelry using the conkers as beads :)
or so called "stinking Willie" is an extremely dangerous toxic plant which is getting more and more common in wild gardens or meadows. The toxin is Pyrrolizine alkaloide which should not be ingested by humans and domestic animals, especially horses and cows. The name derived from the Jacobi day, the 25th July when it starts blooming. Tu cut it is useless, one have to dig it out and burn it.
Das Jakobskreuzkraut ist eine extrem gefährliche, toxische Pflanze, die sich in Wildgärten, auf Weiden und an Wegesrändern in den letzten Jahren ausbreitet. Das Toxin ist ein Pyrrolizinalkaloid, welches nicht von Menschen oder Haustieren, besonders Pferden oder Kühen aufgenommen werden sollte. Der Name rührt vom Jakobstag, dem 25.7. als Blühbeginn her. Abschneiden nützt nichts, die Pflanze muss als Ganzes ausgestochen und entsorgt (verbrannt) werden.
Zenza Bronica ETR 2.8 75mm EII on Fujifilm GFX
Lake Rotorua
Parts of the shoreline are active geothermal regions and the sulphur and other toxins kill many of the plants.
On occassion, the surface, basically a scab on top of an active volcano, will cave in creating new boiling mud pools.
Their venom is a mix of toxins, including neurotoxins, that paralyzes the prey so the anemone can move it to the mouth for digestion inside the gastrovascular cavity.
Dive site :- Eighteen Palms, Bonaire. Taken at a depth of 8 metres on a night dive.
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With 123 years of history, Instituto Butantan is located in the city of São Paulo (state of São Paulo, Brazil) is the main producer of immunobiologicals in Brazil. It is responsible for a considerable percentage of the national production of hyperimmune sera and vaccine antigens, which make up the vaccines used in the National Immunization Program (Programa Nacional de Imunizações, PNI) of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The production of health inputs are associated with the production of vaccines, antitoxins and antivenoms, and biopharmaceuticals for human use, exporting sera and vaccines for over 10 countries in Latin America and Europe. Nowadays, Butantan produces vacines against Covid-19, flu, tetanus, diphtheria, hepatitis A and B, chikungunya, whooping cough, dengue, HPV and rabies; serum against venoms, bacterial toxins and the rabies vírus, and monoclonal antibody anti-TNF-alfa (tumor necrosis factor-alfa, a cytokine involved in several immunopathological conditions as reumatoid arthritis and Crohn disease).
হরতনি | Common Jezebel (Delias eucharis)
Nomadic in behaviour and are found in Southeast Asia. It has bright colouration that it is unpalatable due to toxins accumulated by the larvae from the host-plants.
Family:Pieridae
Butterfly Garden, Garpanchakot Forest, Purulia District
Butterflies of Bengal, India
The flamingo tongue is a small, brightly colored marine snail found in tropical waters. Averaging from 25–35 mm (0.98–1.38 in) in length and can usually be found in waters from 2-15m (6-45ft) deep, typically feeding on sea fans, whip corals, or other soft corals. Interestingly, these bright colours are not associated with their shell. Instead, the color comes from the snail’s soft live mantle tissue, which is usually wrapped around the entire outside of the plain white or beige shell. It moves along with a wavy “foot” (radula - which resembles a long ribbon with teeth) beneath their bodies used to both move an eat, and has two soft, antennae-like structures on their heads that contain their eyes.
The slow-motion movement of the flamingo tongue snail allows the coral enough time to regenerate making the symbiotic relationship of these two species by co-protection. As the snail feeds, it takes in the toxins from the coral and is assimilated into the live mantel tissue of the shell. Predators of the flamingo tongue snail find this toxin distasteful and end up leaving both the snail and coral alone. They are an important part of a healthy, balanced coral reef ecosystem.