Bougainvillea Bougainvillea are popular ornamental plants in most areas with warm climates. are evergreen where rainfall occurs all year, or deciduous if there is a dry season. Bougainvillea are relatively pest-free plants, but they may suffer from worms, snails and aphids. The larvae of some Lepidoptera species also use them as food plants, for example the giant leopard moth (Hypercompe scribonia).Although it is frost-sensitive Its high salt tolerance makes […]
European green woodpecker This is an easy to recognize European bird : it is mostly green colored with a red crown and nape. The belly is light yellow. European green woodpecker feeds on ants The European green woodpecker feeds on ants of the genera Lasius and Formica. It also eats other insects, frogs ands lizards. They also drills for insects in softwood
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– Loofah has a mild sweet taste, and are very juicy. The inside of theloofah is white, soft almost like cotton, they don’t feel watery at all, but when cooked all the liquid would fill the pan! To make this dish, all I need to do is peel the skin, slice them, and throw them in a pan
Spanish moss Spanish moss is an air plant or epiphytic flowering plant that mostly grows upon larger trees from South America (with an exception of the Amazon forest) to the South of USA. Epifytics grow on the surface on the branches of trees and derives its moisture and nutrients only from the air. The moss hangs in
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When alive, its color is dark grey; upon drying it becomes either yellow or brown. Young larvae swim freely until they attach themselves to the sea floor or other adequate ground. After that, they start growing slowly, as it may take as much as 40 years to grow the size of a baseball 1 bath sponge or Spongia officinalis 2 Suberites
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As you can see, skeleton shrimp have taken the basic amphipod body plan and dialed all the features to “scary”. Skeleton shrimp live only in saltwater, and mostly near the coast. They eat whatever they can get, which may include protists, detritus, worms, diatoms, and other crustacean larvae. Although some filter feed or scrape
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Pelvetia-gemeenschap (gemeenschap waarin Groefwier domineert)Zeldzame wieren: De Pelvetia-gemeenschap wordt als zeer zeldzaam langs de Oosterschelde beschouwd. Er wordt verderop in dit rapport ook gekeken naar mogelijkheden om deze soort te behouden.
European eel Eel spend most of thir live in fresh water rivers and ditches. Eels the start and the end of theire lives is in the Sargossa sea, thousends mile from theire freshwater rivers. Like other anguillid eels, European eels have a complex life history, spending most of their life in the “yellow eel” growth
Cod (1) and haddock(3) hunt for herring(2) on the bottom of the sea between a field oarweed(4). A painting by the German artist Heinrich Harder. (1858-1935) larval cod (Gadus morhua) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) from Georges Bank were dominated by nauplii and copepodites of Oithona similis and Pseudocalanus spp.
creeping bellflower The creeping bellflower flowers with nice blue or blue-violet , trumpet shaped flowers along a tall, thin stem. It is very tolerant for dry or humid soil and full sun or full shade. Native of Eurasia but nowadays widespread in North America. becoming an noxios weed in North America Bellflower were exported from
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