California Poppies- Eschscholzia californica♡ my first time seeing them grow in the wild. Found throughout our area at most elevations and habitats. Pollinated by small soft-winged flower beetles (Melyridae), Checkered beetles (Cleridae), Long-horned beetles (Cerambycidae), and many types of native bees!
I won't really be blogging as much anymore... I'm super busy now that school started. I recently got a job at school. I'm working for the biology department, helping with the greenhouse and the school garden. I'm still stoked about it. I'm also doing an independent research project with my lovely botany professor regarding different milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis) germination methods. I will post about my research but until I have some data to show, I'm gonna try to stay away from here. It's so distracting to have a blog. My dark circles are already bad and it's only been three weeks since school started but being around my professor and the biology department has made me happier. I am still not entirely sure where I'm heading but this definitely makes me feel that I am heading down the right path.
Don’t take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can’t. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself. There is plenty of information. You have got to learn how to judge, evaluate and compare it with other things.
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I can imagine the Tiger Jaws eating insects. I can imagine it eating lizards. I can even imagine it bursting out of some poor guy’s chest so it can eat some other guy’s face.
But I would be completely wrong.
These jaws are actually there to direct condensation to their roots so they can survive their dry, South Africa habitat.
And they got lovely big flowers, too!
Images: Mike Keeling/Ernest McGray, Jr./Clare Snow
I have one of these! c:
sporophytes are one my favorite plant structures.
Create a life that feels good on the inside. Not one that just looks good on the outside.
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Pinguicula primuliflora, a carnivorous plant native to the South-Eastern USA. It’s flowers range from white to lilac and are reminiscent of a primrose. As if eating insects wasnt cool enough, when the leaves of this plant touch the ground, the tips often grow genetic clones of the mother plant (a developing plantlet can be seen in the 3rd picture). In this manner, this species can quickly colonize a surprisingly large area.
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love your hairs and your folds
i'm trying to love my folds, i really am. i love this.
Sunny with a Chance of Wild Space Weather
Solar eruptions showing a blend of 304 and 171 Ångström light imaged by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA instrument.
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO
photos by (click pic) michael poliza, dennis fast and matthias brieter of polar bears amongst the fireweed in churchill, manitoba. the area has the largest, and most southerly, concentration of the animals on the planet. in late summer and early fall the polar bears make their way to the hudson bay, waiting for it to freeze over so they can hunt for seals on the ice. but every year, the ice is forming later and later, forcing the polar bears to go hungry for longer. (more polar bear posts)
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visitors to the Grand Canyon National Park got to see this stunning sight. This weather phenomenon is called a total cloud inversion, and it happens when the air near the ground is cooler than the air above it, creating a sea of clouds. While typically a rare event, this is the second cloud inversion at the Grand Canyon in six weeks. Photos by M. Quinn, National Park Service.
Top photo: The South Rim’s “Battleship,” which truly looked like a ship today, cutting through the waves.
Middle photo: A timelapse of the clouds rolling into the Grand Canyon from Hopi Point on the South Rim of the canyon.
Bottom photo: Visitors viewing the inversion from Hopi Point along Hermit Road on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
I love it when plants hurt me because even though they aren't able to move, they can still defend themselves and being part of that is wonderful.
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A Darwin’s beetle fights rival males, tossing them to the forest below using his immense jaws » http://bit.ly/IAVeE2http://
The “Neural Net of Gaian Consciousness”
"the ecosystem is tied together with an infused mass of mycellium, and they share information and knowledge. here’s a photo which shows the organization of the computer internet..very mycellium-like in its form. there’s no point-specific place where the internet can be totally disrupted. The mycelial form also follows this archetype. I present to you the concept that the invention of the computer internet is just an extension of a previously proven biological model that has been refined over millions of years of experimentation. It is no accident that we invented the computer internet at a time when we are in crisis, ecologically and politically, so we can share information and create countries without borders.”
-mycologist Paul Stamets
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