The purple-ring topsnail is a medium-sized sea snail with gills and an operculum.This is a sublittoral marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae. This snail lives off of the Pacific coast of North America.his species is fairly omnivorous, feeding seasonally on kelp, sessile fauna like bryozoans, and detritus.
It’s so funny to see bumblebee behavior, how they basically have to learn what is and is not a flower through example.
For months the bumblebees were totally ignoring my garden, despite an ample supply of delicious Catnip, Lavender, and other assorted goods. Then, I put in the Russian Sage, a tall stalk of ample amounts of purple flowers, that can be seen in my garden from the hillside, and suddenly, a few tentatively showed up to that, then they realized the Hyssop next to it also had nectar, then the Lavender, which they had so quickly snubbed before, then the Borage flowers quickly became their favorite, which last year saw no bee activity at all, etc.
I guess what I’m saying is, if you’re trying to attract bees, consider putting in the botanical equivalent of a runway flag for your garden and see what happens.
I have never in my life even thought to think about how bees figure out flowers have nectar because I always just kinda thought that the explanation I was given (UV TRIPPY FLOWERS RUNWAYS TO THE NECTAR WOOOO, except not that excited and with more thought) satisfied me. I didn’t think about them not recognizing other weird thing shapes as foodsources. I’ve never stopped to think about what a non-native flower would look to native pollinators that it didn’t co-evolve with.
Is this cos they see them as a threat to their eggs or are they just blood thirsty like Horses when they chew on a mouse lol
They’re bloody predators if they feel like it. Even the chicks are dangerous to smaller animals.
Chickens are omnivores. In addition to grains, seeds, fruit, and insects, they’ll happily eat snakes, lizards, mice, baby birds, even adult birds if the bird is already injured. If they can kill it, they’ll eat it, and they are remarkably proficient at killing things.
Man, skin isn’t fastened into one place at all, is it? You can just, like, massage on it with your fingertips and it moves around. Ear and nose cartilage isn’t fixed, either. All kinds of stuff is loose.
and with this, I am going to bed. Goodnight, folks.
Man, skin isn’t fastened into one place at all, is it? You can just, like, massage on it with your fingertips and it moves around. Ear and nose cartilage isn’t fixed, either. All kinds of stuff is loose.
Feathered wings are an aerodynamic adaption. They have developed to guide air smoothly over the wings, from front to back. If you want a ‘realistic’ hybrid wing, you would find feathers on the front edge, just small ones to round out and smooth the shape for gliding, and continue into a membrane towards the back.
For this hypothetical wyvern, there has already been a real word possible analogue, the Yi qi. This specimen has a kind of hybrid wing, which unfortunately didn’t do well in evolution. Otherwise we might have dragons.
You could presumably have an animal that had feathers all over its body and tiny ones along the edges of the wings, like pterosaur fuzz. Feathered wings start out as feathered limbs with large feathers that can provide a tiny bit of extra hangtime on a jump, so it’d be a bit odd for a feathered animal to start growing skin-flap wings instead of large feathers, but I suppose it could happen.
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