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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
Found along northeastern Australia from Mackay to Cooktown, the Cairns Birdwing is Australia’s largest endemic butterfly. The females’ wingspan can measure a whopping 18cm, and they’re easily recognized thanks to their vivid coloration. I think their highly adapted lifecycle is their most fascinating attribute.
Male Cairns Birdwing Butterflies are smaller, but more colourful than the females. They are fussy butterflies who lay eggs on native rainforest Pipe Vines (Aristolochia tagala and Pararistolochia deltantha). Females find the ideal vine using chemical receptors in their legs and abdomen to ‘sense’ tender, caterpillar-friendly leaves. Newly hatched caterpillars eat their own nutritious egg shell, and will even eat other caterpillars if times are tough. Caterpillars are brightly coloured to ward off predators, and store toxins absorbed from Pipe Vines so attackers won’t make the same mistake twice!
The Cairns Birdwing caterpillar uses bright colours and sharp spines to ward off predators.
When caterpillars are almost ready to pupate they ringbark their vine. Although leaves droop from water loss, the flow of nutrients is concentrated so the caterpillar gets a more nutritious meal before pupation. Pupation occurs in a cleverly camouflaged cocoon, which resembles a dead, dried leaf.
As soon as adult butterflies hatch the race is on to mate, as they only live for 4 – 5 weeks. Males are extremely territorial, performing early morning patrols and competing with other males to find fresh, newly hatched females. Courtship can be lengthy (up to 36 hours) and aggressive, and apparently the female slips the male a sedative to ensure he behaves himself!
The species was once under threat due to wide-scale clearance of its native rainforest habitat, and the spread of exotic vines including Dutchman’s Pipe (Aristolochia elegans). A. elegans closely resembles the native A. tagala vine, and is lethal to the butterflies in their larval stage.
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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.
Nas Portas de Ródão fotografei este grifo com um tumor na garganta. Numa pesquisa rápida na net em busca das causas dos tumores, leio a primeira causa: "Exposição a toxinas ambientais, como poluição, radiação e fumo passivo". Tenho também a certeza de que nem o cônjuge nem os colegas da colónia deste grifo fumam...
Nas Portas a poluição das águas do Tejo abunda e a poluição atmosférica também...
mas tudo isto é obviamente coincidência!
Grifo / Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus)
Portas de Ródão, Vila Velha de Ródão, Portugal. (28/08/16)
RANDOM 232 EXPLORE 25 ABRIL 2010
ESCUCHAR: LA RANA Y EL PRINCIPE.
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La rana azul venenosa vive en las selvas tropicales, se alimenta de insectos y su piel contiene toxinas muy venenosas.
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Name: Jasmine Clay/Atet-Ra
Alias: Serket
Allegiance: Neutral (Jasmine)/Villain (Atet-Ra)
Powers:
-Immunity to most toxins
-Minor regenerative abilities
-Limited Necromancy (Can cast and break curses, as well as drain other's life energy to bolster her own.)
Weaknesses: In times of great physical or emotional stress, Jasmine can temporarily lose control of herself, allowing her Atet-Ra persona to bleed through.
Origin: Jasmine Clay was an ambitious young Egyptologist who was secretly the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian priestess of the scorpion goddess, Serket. On an archeological expedition into the heart of Egypt, the spirit of her predecessor was rekindled within her, granting Jasmine a host of mystical power, but tainting her soul with the influence of the fallen priestess Atet-Ra.
Anticlea elegans, an unusual but very recognizable flower. Entire plant is deadly to humans and animals, due to high concentrations of alkaloid toxins, similar to poison hemlock.
Incredible common in my part of Interior Alaska.
Mmm... I saw something nice down there. Let's explore!
Arothron stellatus is a medium-sized fish which grows up to 120 cm (47 in) in length. Its body is oval shaped, spherical and relatively elongated. The skin is not covered with scales but is prickly. The fish has no pelvic fin and no lateral line. The dorsal fin and the anal fin are small, symmetric, and located at the rear end of the body. The head is large with a short snout that has two pairs of nostrils, and the mouth is terminal with four strong teeth.
The background coloration goes from white to grey, and the body is harmoniously dotted with black spots. The ventral area is usually clearer. The size of the spots is inversely proportional to the size of the fish; thus, a young individual will have large spots and adults of maximal size will have small spots. The juveniles have a yellowish body background coloration with dark stripes. The young adults still have stripes on the ventral area that will turn to spots later, and also some recollection of yellow on the body. Arothron stellatus feeds on benthic invertebrates, sponges, algae, the polyps of corals such as Acropora, crustaceans and mollusks.
This pufferfish is diurnal. It is mainly solitary and defends a territory. Arothron stellatus contains a highly toxic poison, tetrodotoxin, in its ovaries and to a lesser extent its skin and liver, which protects it from voracious predators. It becomes toxic as it eats bacteria that contain the toxin. To ward off potential enemies, they can inflate their bodies by swallowing air or water. (Wikipedia) Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
The Death Camas Mining Bee, Andrena astragali, peeking at me from its favorite plant, Death Camas (Toxicoscordion sp.). All parts of this native western North American wildflower are toxic, including the pollen and nectar, which can kill honeybees (which aren't native to this continent). But this little solitary bee, about 1/2 to 2/3 the size of a honeybee, has evolved to tolerate the toxin.
All Ranunculus species are poisonous when eaten fresh by cattle, horses, and other livestock, but their acrid taste and the blistering of the mouth caused by their poison means they are usually left uneaten. Poisoning can occur where buttercups are abundant in overgrazed fields where little other edible plant growth is left, and the animals eat them out of desperation. Symptoms include bloody diarrhea, excessive salivation, colic, and severe blistering of the mucous membranes and gastrointestinal tract. When Ranunculus plants are handled, naturally occurring ranunculin is broken down to form protoanemonin, which is known to cause contact dermatitis in humans and care should therefore be exercised in extensive handling of the plants.[4] The toxins are degraded by drying, so hay containing dried buttercups is safe.
This snake gets its name from its upturned, flattened nose which it uses to dig its prey out of loose, sandy soil. Feeding primarily on toads, frogs and salamanders, it favors flood plains, river banks and forest areas surrounding ponds & lakes. Its mild venom is harmless to humans while its specialized adrenal glands counteract the toxins emitted by toads & salamanders. When threatened, it raises its head & expands a hood, much like a Cobra.
On retrouve ces papillons du Mexique au Panama. Greta oto butine des fleurs communes comme le lantana, mais préfère pondre ses œufs sur les plantes tropicales toxiques tels que les Cestrum nocturnum1. Les chenilles qui sont rouges et violettes à rayures, se nourrissent de ces toxines et stockent les alcaloïdes végétaux dans leurs tissus. Elles deviennent ainsi à leur tour toxiques (ou au moins désagréables) pour leurs prédateurs naturels tels que les oiseaux. Cette toxicité acquise à l'état larvaire perdure chez le papillon adulte. Les mêmes alcaloïdes végétaux (et toxiques) sont convertis en phéromones par les mâles pour attirer les femelles.
Le papillon transparent de la famille des nymphalidés
Adultes, les Greta oto affichent également un certain nombre de comportements intéressants, parmi lesquels on notera la constitution d'une aire de parade chez les mâles et la capacité à réaliser des migrations importantes. Source Wikipedia
Same shot as posted earlier, playing with editing tools.
Movement is the key to all things in life, we can eat healthier, we can limit toxins but without movement, we can not truly gain good health...
Both adults and nymphs damage squash and pumpkin plants by sucking juices out of the leaves. The leaves then lose nutrients and water, become speckled, then yellow, then brown, and finally, the plant totally wilts and dies. The squash bug also injects a toxin that expedites the plant's withering and death. I barely have them under control. Controlling them takes daily examination of the underside of leaves and stems and removal of eggs, nymphs and adults.
Photographed this evening in my backyard, Yakima County, Washington. IMG_5540
A Potterton garden.
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.
Graffiti Karlsruhe
Artist: Toxin One
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Las polillas de la puesta de sol de Madagascar (Chrysiridia rhipheus) son polillas de colores brillantes nativas sólo de la isla de Madagascar. Su belleza única las convierte en las favoritas de los fabricantes de joyas tradicionales y de los artistas que utilizan las alas iridiscentes de las polillas para crear obras de arte.
A diferencia de la mayoría de las polillas, están activas durante el día, y sólo tienen un medio de defensa: que son venenosas.
Las toxinas contenidas en las plantas de Omphalea de las que se alimenta son ingeridas cuando son orugas o larvas, pero no son digeridas. En su lugar, estas toxinas permanecen en sus cuerpos a través de la pupación y hasta la edad adulta. El resultado es una polilla que es tóxica para la mayoría de los depredadores.
Sus alas de colores brillantes son una advertencia a los depredadores, para que sepan que las tienen que dejar en paz o sufrirán las consecuencias de su toxicidad.
Pero lo más impresionante es que sus alas son iridiscentes y parecen tener distintos tonos de color.
Cada vez que las polillas mueven sus alas, los colores y patrones cambian, creando un efecto de caleidoscopio. Sin embargo, en realidad es sólo una ilusión óptica. La mayoría de las alas de las polillas no contienen ningún pigmento, y con una luz tenue parecen insípidas y poco llamativas. Los colores llamativos son creados por la curvatura de las escamas de sus alas, que reflejan la luz en diferentes ángulos, dando la apariencia de color.
A cinnabar moth caterpillar tucking into a meal of ragwort. Its total lack of camouflage is because it absorbs toxins from the plant that make it a deadly meal. Some ragworts are invasive and these caterpillars are used as an effective biological control.
Photographed in the dunes at Gronant.
Yellow-headed Poison Frog (Dendrobates leucomelas). As with other dendrobatids these brightly colored amphibians are protected from predators by highly potent toxins within their skin, making them deadly to eat. Bolivar, Venezuela.
A colorful native to Central and South America. The poison in dart frogs is acquired from them eating toxic ants and other toxic insects that the frogs are immune to but can accumulate the toxins in the their skin. Quite the challenge to photograph through two layers of very dirty and steamy glass. Los Angeles, California, the Los Angeles Zoo.
Real Name: Jonathan Crane
Occupation: Scientist, Professional Criminal
Gender: Male
Height: 6'0
Weight: 140lbs (64kg)
Jonathan Crane is the Scarecrow, a criminal in Gotham City who takes pride in spreading fear using his specially-designed fear toxin. This makes him an enemy of the city's protector Batman.
I'd love to hear what you think.
Son de hábitos nocturnos y arborícolas. La rana verde de ojos rojos se alimenta primordialmente de insectos. Entre sus depredadores se pueden nombrar las aves, murciélagos y serpientes. Su piel contiene toxinas, pero no son muy poderosas.
Red- eyed Leaf Frog
Rana de hoja de ojos rojos
( Agalychnis Callidryas )
La denominada popularmente como Cometa de Papel, Papel de Arroz, ó Ninfa de Grandes Árboles es la mariposa conocida sobre todo por su presencia en los invernaderos de mariposas y exposiciones de mariposas vivas de todo el mundo.
Esta bonita mariposa Ventana nueva alcanza los 16 centímetros de envergadura alar. Las alas, que son translúcidas, tienen el fondo de color blanco con marcas, puntos y manchas negras.
Las orugas se alimentan de Parsonsia helicandra y Parsonsia spiralis, especies de parras trepadoras y estranguladoras, que viven sobre los mangles. Las orugas acumulan toxinas que luego conservan en el estado adulto, por lo que resultan de sabor desagradable para los depredadores.
Los adultos pasan la mayor parte del tiempo volando sobre la cubierta vegetal de la selva, o visitando flores en busca de néctar. Los huevos son dejados individualmente sobre las plantas hospedadoras, y la pupación también tiene lugar sobre ellas. Tienen múltiples generaciones cada año, por lo que se pueden ver volar imagos durante todo el año.
Se encuentra primariamente en los manglares y zonas adyacentes, del sudeste asiático.
Amanita pantherina, también conocida como amanita pantera o falso galipierno,1 es un hongo basidiomiceto del orden Agaricales.
Toxicidad
La ingestión de Amanita pantherina da lugar al llamado “síndrome micoatropínico” o “síndrome anticolinérgico”.
Las toxinas responsables son derivados isoxazólicos: el ácido iboténico y el muscimol, que actúan como falsos neurotransmisores.
Esto se debe a que su estereoquímica es similar a la del GABA, y de ese modo, actúan como análogos de este, es decir, como agentes gabamiméticos.
Se ha descrito una mortalidad de un 10 % para la Amanita pantherina.
Mejor no probarlas 😵💫😵💫😵💫🍄🍄🍄
FELIZ DIA.
Y SEGUIMOS, SIEMPRE ADELANTE.
✌👍💪💪💪💪💖💖💖😄😄
This juvenile Swainson’s Hawk will face many threats to survival, including on migration and on its wintering grounds in South America — where the species has been and may still be exposed to insecticides. These raptors surprisingly eat a lot of grasshoppers, and can accumulate toxins from their prey.
those who put corporate profits above human lives are the ones who should personally be so fortunate as to "reap the benefits" of their own product.
drive by shooting.
chinatown.
downtown honolulu.
Chem Trails Copyright © 2018 F.E. All rights reserved. Panorama Time-Lapse taken on 8/12/18.
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(Puma concolor coryi) Once common throughout the southeastern United States, fewer than 100 Florida panthers are estimated to live in the wilds of south Florida today. The current range of Florida panthers is less than five percent of their original range across Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and parts of Tennessee and South Carolina. Florida panthers were heavily hunted after 1832 when a bounty on panthers was created. Perceived as a threat to humans, livestock, and game animals, the species was nearly extinct by the mid-1950s.
Today, the primary threats to the remaining panther population are habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation. Urban sprawl, the conversion of once-diversified agricultural lands into intensified industrial farming uses, and the loss of farmland to commercial development combine to reduce the amount of suitable panther habitat. Other factors include mortalities from collisions with automobiles, territorial disputes with other panthers, inbreeding, disease, and environmental toxins. All these other factors, however, also are related to habitat reduction.
Shot at Sunny's by Toxin, I also like this shot. As opposed to the usual confidence displayed in modeling shots, I found this one had a certainly kind of vulnerability that I loved. He has a great eye for his images.
✌️🌏🌲[Three Fingers Pines]✌️🌏🌲
So Kidds!
There is a new SiFi sim in town!
My old friend Kitten Caboose from those cool peeps over at The Grove Art Center has created this unique futuristic environment, really well laid out with some superb details.
I was lucky enough get to do a shoot in the Kidd way going BIG, last week. While my interpretation strays from the builders intended storyline a tad, I had a blast making my frames!
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The Sims Story Per the creator:
The story of Three Finger Pines:
Once a thriving, green world, the planet Seva was rich with towering flora. But centuries of unchecked consumerism, pollution, and climate collapse shattered its natural balance. The soil turned sterile; the skies choked with toxins.
The Seravarian race emerged from this collapse, desperate to save what remained of their dying world. They launched a small fleet of ships into the galaxy, searching for planets with atmospheres that echoed their lost home. One such vessel crash-landed on Earth—deep within an isolated region of Canada’s boreal forest known as Three Finger Pines.
Remote and largely untouched, Three Finger Pines is a land of towering pines, sprawling wetlands, and near-complete isolation. To the Seravarians, it was a living memory of what Seva once was.
They have not come to resettle Earth, but to learn from its biosystem. By studying the region’s genetic blueprints—its plants, spores, and soil—they hope to unlock the secrets needed to reawaken Seva’s long-lost ecosystem.
✌️🌏🌲[Three Fingers Pines Flickr Group]✌️🌏🌲
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Sim Rules are more than reasonable, read the NC upon arrival, This is a very photo friendly build, group rezz allowed. Best if viewed in Ultra graphics setting.
Honest this is a refreshing top shelf superb build!
My long shot will post on Tuesday!
Peace Out
Kidd
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She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
A-faster than the speed of light
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head
Some say she's from Mars
Or one of the seven stars that shine after three-thirty in the morning
Well, she isn't!
She came from Planet Claire
She came from Planet Claire
She came from Planet Claire
- Cindy Wilson / Fred Schneider / Henry Mancini / Kate Pierson / Keith Strickland / Ricky Wilson
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It's Not A Debate of Policy, It Is A Question Of Morality
To"wag the dog" means to distract attention away from a political scandal, often through military action.
16 Million Americans just lost their health insurance so Billionaires can have a tax cut.
FYI I will not go quietly go into the darkness
1294 Days Of Suck To Go ...... Day 166
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The adult butterfly is easily recognised by its dark brown wings that are spotted white along the margins. The male's forewing has a bow-shaped hind margin, while the female's is straight.
The Common Crow Butterfly is found in Queensland and northern New South Wales, and also occurs across northern Australia as far west as Onslow in Western Australia. It has on occasion extended its range as far south as Victoria, and pupae have been found in Cootamundra and Kandos, New South Wales, which are west of the Great Dividing Range. It has been found in Alice Springs, Adelaide and Lord Howe Island. It has also been common at times in Sydney (1947-48; 1954-55 and more recently).
Adult Common Crow Butterflies overwinter together for protection in large aggregations of one to two thousand butterflies. The butterflies go into a dormant state in which they live on their fat reserves and nearby nectar sources until warmer weather returns. These aggregations occur in sheltered coastal sites and on offshore islands in the tropics and subtropics of northern and eastern Australia.
The Common Crow Butterfly has a strong scent that may allow predators to identify it as inedible. It also produces (from chemicals in its food plants) toxins so strong that eating just one butterfly may induce a bird to vomit. However, not all birds are sensitive to the toxins, and common invertebrate predators and parasites such as spiders, dragonflies, flies and wasps suffer no ill effects from eating these butterflies.
The adult butterfly has a life span of 11 - 13 weeks. The adults feed upon nectar from various flowering plants, including eucalypts.
See more at: australianmuseum.net.au/common-crow-butterfly#sthash.Fxg1...
This is the very beautiful Common Crow butterfly - Euploea core. It is a very common medium-sized 85–95 mm (3.3–3.7 in) butterfly found in South Asia and Australia. In India it is also sometimes referred to as the Common Indian Crow, and in Australia as the Australian Crow. It belongs to the crows and tigers subfamily Danainae (Danaini tribe). As caterpillars, this species ingests toxins from its food plant which are passed on from larva to pupa and on to the adult, this makes them extremely unpalatable to predators such as insectivorous birds. They are found in a wide variety of lowland habitats including tropical rainforest, dry woodland, scrub areas alongside beaches, parks and gardens. This one was seen just off the beach at Cansaulim, Goa, India.
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The blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena sp.) is a small animal, which can inject a toxin that produces a respiratory arrest within minutes. Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Last few weeks, I've soured on social media. Soured on the idea of followers, likes, attention, even.
Popularity is a toxin. It's isolating, and creates a dynamic that, at its heart, is antisocial.
Going onto instagram feels utterly purposeless, at this point. Feels like pissing in the wind.
Still like coming here, though! It's a different feel, yeah? Just folks talking, and maybe the fact that Flickr isn't the "popular" place helps it feel less obnoxious. The design is still for people that like talking to each other, looking at pictures. Still considers its users.
Maybe that's what it comes down to: being repelled by sites/apps that feel antagonistic towards their users. Repelled by internet environments that are working not to create positive spaces, but to craft more effective marketplaces.
I'm happy to pay for a place where I can just talk, talk about photos, talk with other people that want to talk about photos. Seems like a good social network has to be paid for, these days.
This view is looking across the former Pope & Talbot Mill Site on Port Gamble bay. It has been undergoing toxin/pollutant clean up for quite some time. The site was used by Pope & Talbot, Inc. to manufacture forest products from 1853 to 1995. The mill was shut down in 1995 and removed in 1997.
Cleanup highlights include:
Over 8,500 mostly creosote-treated pilings removed
Wood waste and contaminated sediment removed: over 110,000 cubic yards
Overwater and derelict structures removed: over 55,000 square feet, or about one acre
Clean capping and habitat materials placed: over 200,000 tons
Clean sand placed to accelerate natural recovery: over 113,000 cubic yards
Length of shoreline improved along mill site: over 3,400 feet
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.
44 Eagles in this one tree, and then there are the ones on the lower right of the shot - another 6. There are probably well over a thousand Bald Eagles in this area. Where you might ask? They are all foraging for easy pickin's at the Vancouver Landfill. I hope they survive all the toxins they must be ingesting.
The Monarch Caterpillar and is on a Milkweed plant which is one of the favourite plants the butterfly prefers to lay their eggs on. This is because the caterpillar eats this plant and ingests the poisonous toxins that the plant produces. When the caterpillar eats the plant they store these toxins within their bodies and so in turn make the caterpillar poisonous to its predators.
"They all float down here" is a famous line from Stephen King's novel It ~
in this case the phrase is edited to be a message for the case against global pollution... every thing, toxin, plastic, rot and waste ends up in sewers, rivers, the soil.
al/gimp
“I'm Every Nightmare You Ever Had. I’m Your Worst Dream Come True.”
IT Miniseries (1990) ~
I am climate change, global warmimg, “climate crisis” and “environmental destruction,”
Yellow Azealea, two flowers, I thought I would double check on the toxicity of these flowers; the toxin can cause very low blood pressure and heart rate as well as irregular heart rhythm. These symptoms could be life threatening. Ingestion of the "mad honey" is not the only way people have been poisoned by azaleas and rhododendrons. Eating the leaves, nectar, or flowers of the plants can also lead to toxicity 😲
Thanks to Granville for the correct Latin name, I either made it up, spelled it wrong, or just put the totally wrong name on.
Omphalotus olearius, commonly known as the jack-o'-lantern mushroom, is a poisonous orange gilled mushroom that to an untrained eye appears similar to some chanterelles. It is notable for its bioluminescent properties. It is found in woodland areas in Europe, where it grows on decaying stumps, on buried roots or at the base of hardwood trees. It has also been reported from the Western Cape Province, South Africa. A similar, but phylogenetically distinc] species found in eastern North America is Omphalotus illudens.
Unlike chanterelles, Omphalotus olearius and other Omphalotus species contain the toxin illudin S, and are poisonous to humans. While not lethal, consuming this mushroom leads to very severe cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Wikipedia
The golden poison frog (Phyllobates terribilis), also known as the golden poison dart frog, is considered one of the most poisonous animals on Earth. Its name "terribilis" was given by its discoverers to highlight the terrible nature of its poison.
Physical Characteristics
Appearance: This frog is a member of the poison dart frog family and is known for its bright, warning coloration, which can be golden yellow, orange, or pale green. This defense mechanism, known as aposematic coloration, warns predators of its toxicity.
Size: It is one of the largest species of poison dart frog, reaching up to 6 cm in length.
Habitat and Behavior
Range: The golden poison frog is endemic to a small area of humid rainforests on the Pacific coast of Colombia, in the Chocó Rainforest.
Diet: Its diet consists of various insects and other small invertebrates, including ants, beetles, and flies.
Toxicity: The frog's skin glands produce a powerful neurotoxin called batrachotoxin. This toxin is so potent that a single frog can contain enough to kill 10 to 20 humans or two African bull elephants. The frog's toxicity is believed to come from the specific insects it eats in the wild, which may contain the toxins or modify them. Captive-bred frogs that do not consume these insects are not poisonous. The local indigenous Emberá people have historically used the poison from these frogs to tip their hunting blow darts.
Conservation Status
The golden poison frog is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The primary threat to its survival is the destruction of its limited rainforest habitat due to logging, agriculture, and gold mining.
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Pretty certain this robber fly 'Laphria thoracica' has caught a bee and is in the process of eating it.
Like all robber flies, Laphria captures its prey in flight, instantly injects a squirt of saliva that combines toxins with enzymes that break down protein, enabling it to drink its prey.
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