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Taste the Rainbow Handspun Yarn---122 yards of handspun, plied with a varigated cotton crochet thread in pastel rainbow colors like the yarn. Made from the October Batts from Traveling Rhino's Club. Contains BFL, Superwash Merino, Domestic and Targhee Wools with Nylon & Angelina sparklies.
I love how this one came out! It will stripe with wide non-repeating stripes!
Five to 10 miles along Hartnet Road (after the river ford) the colorful bentonite hills come into view. Depending upon the time of day and recent rainfall, these hills and hoodoos are varigated in hues of tan, taupe, red, green, and blue. In several of the gullies you will see stark black basalt boulders that eroded from a long ago caprock.
There were several butterflies (variegated fritillary) enjoying our wildflowers this afternoon after work.
Explore October 30, 2007
Made from my first complex cane. Beads made from leftover green ( 5 of them) into impromptu skinner blend. For the PGAGOE February Challenge
This is the ATC card I made for Penny Nickles. I had a bit of a varigated french knot frenzy! As you can see, I took some artistic license with scale, colour - everything really. I thought it would symbolise spring and rebirth.
Malurus lamberti
Family: Maluridae
Order: Passeriformes
The Variegated Fairywren is native to eastern Australia. When breeding, the male has chestnut shoulders and azure crown and ear covers, while non-breeding males, females and juveniles have predominantly grey-brown plumage, although females of two subspecies have mainly blue-grey colouring.
Like other fairywrens, the Variegated Fairywren breeds cooperatively, with small groups of birds maintaining and defending small territories. Groups consist of a monogamous pair with several helper birds who assist in raising the young.
These wrens are primarily insectivorous and forage and live in the shelter of vegetation in the coastal bushlands of Eastern Australia.
Male wrens pluck yellow petals and present them to females in a courtship display.
Location Burrewarra Point
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This rose, for some reason, always turns out a little more redish color than blue.. It's more purple and lavender... I haven't a clue what the name is because there isn't a tag on it and it has been in that bed across the street every since I moved here almost 20 years ago...
The variegated Vinca vines (Periwinkle) are covered this year with tiny aphids and small black scale, giving the lady bug plenty to munch on.
Comments and constructive feedback are always appreciated!
Each year we usually see this wild orchid in the Manistee National Forrest, in our native Michigan. It is a Wild Woodland Lady Slipper. On our way out of this area on Wednesday evening we saw a new plant, with it's leaves unfurling in the middle of a d-commissioned roadway. We do not know if it is another lady slipper or something else. Time will tell. Hopefully, we will know on Sunday upon our return......
I do not know what these lovely flowers are called but they are very eye catching. Picture taken in Egypt.
This is a small morning glory - it is growing in a pot. It does not generally reach very high. I planted it in my garden in a pot last year and it reseeded itself all over the place in the garden. I kept one of the volunteers for a pot again this year.
Leaf. Fountain. Water. Sometimes, simple is good!
(Edited to add: Explored!! Yay, thank you all so much! I do like this one a lot.)
Hot Springs, AR
These plants were located at the Hot Springs Visitors Center located at the intersection of Central Avenue and Spring Street.
Malurus lamberti
Family: Maluridae
Order: Passeriformes #
Photographed at Merrick’s Swamp in Moruya, NSW.
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Tawny Rajah, Varigated Rajah and Yellow Rajah
Puddling
Is male puddling behavior of tropical butterflies targeted at sodium for nuptial gifts or activity?
ABSTRACT
An apparent sexual difference in adult feeding behaviour in many species of Lepidoptera relates to puddling on mud, dung and carrion. In most butterfly species, puddling is exclusively a male behaviour. A possible explanation for this division in feeding behaviour is that nutrients derived from puddling are transferred to the female in the spermatophore during mating as a nuptial gift. Sodium derived from puddling has been shown to act as a nuptial gift in a few Lepidoptera species. It can also be used for neuromuscular activity in both males and females and may therefore correlate with flight morphology. In this study, we examine the generality of these two hypotheses in comparative work on a community of African fruit-feeding butterflies. We investigated puddling behaviour of males and females on carrion and dung together with sodium preferences, polyandry, relative wing-size, sexual size dimorphism and sodium concentrations in the bodies and spermatophores of several species. The results show that sodium as a nuptial gift can explain the sexual division in puddling in some species, but not in all. Species in which both sexes puddle transfer little sodium in the nuptial gift, which is consistent with the nuptial gift theory. Wing loading and puddling are not significantly correlated, but the trend followed the direction predicted by the activity hypothesis. However, the sodium concentration in the species with the smallest wing area to thoracic volume (WA/TV) ratio (the largest Charaxes spp.), was relatively low. Moreover, in all investigated species, the sodium concentration was higher in the abdomen than in the thorax. The results are discussed in the light of differences between the sexes in foraging behaviour in both larvae and adults, and with respect to alternative explanations for puddling. © 2005 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2005, 86, 345–361
Is male puddling behavior of tropical butterflies targeted at sodium for nuptial gifts or activity? (PDF Download Available). Available from: www.researchgate.net/publication/227807570_Is_male_puddli... [accessed Jan 15, 2016].
crochet in varigated green yarn.
approx 19cm tall, and 35 cm nose to tail.
original jellibat design (me) No pattern.
© David K. Edwards. A varigated sprigalia (I assume that flower names, like bird names, can be invented and employed at will). This was a flower I saw in Iceland. Could it be a cryptolythium? Suggestions welcome!
I do love a bit of ivy in the garden. I especially love the varigated type.
The wildlife love ivy too.
It is a valuable plant for many species, especially insects filling up on nectar before hibernating.
Wasps, hornets, hoverflies, bumblebees, red admirals, small tortoiseshells and peacock butterflies drink the nectar.Many birds, such as blackbirds and thrushes, eat the berries.
The frogs like to hide underneath it too
My neighbor JoAnn raises these beautiful Variaged Feathery Fringed Orange Tulips. They are beautiful, but the day that I went to take pictures of them the wind was blowing hard, so I did my best to snap shots between gusts. Thank you JoAnn.
Shot with a Nikon D300 and Tamron 90mm Macro Lens Hand Held at 1/500th sec, f/16, ISO 800.
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