image of the day
grrlscientist | July 20, 2007tags: Hoverfly, Image of the Day
This beautiful Texas native passionflower serves as a host plant for the Gulf Fritillary and Variegated Fritillary butterflies. I took this in the Refuge Butterfly Garden while tending the Visitor Information Station last Sunday. Passiflora incarnata, Anahuac NWR Butterfly Garden, 7-8-07.
Image: Biosparite [larger]
grrlscientist | July 19, 2007tags: Rattlesnake Master, Image of the Day
Rattlesnake Master, along TX 124 near Intracoastal Canal, 7-8-07
Rattlesnake Master, Eryngium yuccifolium, is a wildflower that is widespread across the midcontinent.
Image: Biosparite [larger]
grrlscientist | July 18, 2007tags: Black Swallowtail Butterfly, Image of the Day
Black Swallowtail nectaring on buttonbush, Anahuac NWR 7-8-07.
Image: Biosparite [larger]
grrlscientist | July 17, 2007tags: Hoverfly, Image of the Day
Hoverfly nectaring on frogfruit near Anahuac NWR VIS 7-8-07.
This is a much-sharpened picture of a difficult and fast-moving subject. Hoverflies are bee mimics. Notice, however, the big eyes of the fly (q.v., movie "The Fly").
Image: Biosparite
grrlscientist | July 16, 2007tags: Viceroy Butterfly, Image of the Day
Viceroy on Buttonbush, Anahuac NWR Butterfly Garden, 7-8-07.
Image: Biosparite [larger]
grrlscientist | July 12, 2007tags: Perija parakeet, Pyrrhura caeruleiceps, tags: birds, parrots, ornithology, zoology, Image of the Day
The critically endangered Perija Parakeet, Pyrrhura caeruleiceps.
Image: ProAves Colombia.
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The critically endangered Perija Parakeet, Pyrrhura caeruleiceps, was photographed in the wild for the first time by Adriana Tovar and Luis Eduardo Urueña on the same expedition where they photographed the recurve-billed bushbird, thanks to Loro Parque Fundacion. The Perija parakeet population is estimated to be between 30 to 50 individual birds due to habitat…
grrlscientist | July 9, 2007tags: snow leopard, kitten, Image of the Day
Askai, a 10-week-old snow leopard kitten, Panthera uncia, hisses at photographers during his first public appearance at Berlin Zoo, Germany.
Image: BBC News.
grrlscientist | June 19, 2007tags: sea turtle, Olive-Ridley hatchling, Image of the Day
An Olive Ridley hatchling struggles out of its egg on a French Guianan beach. Egg collection and snaring in fishing nets have brought the turtle's population down by 95% in 40 years. Turtle protection has been under discussion at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species meeting.
Image: Roger Leguen, WWF [larger]
grrlscientist | June 18, 2007tags: panda, Image of the Day
Porn fans unite: this is your playmate of the week, courtesy of GrrlScientist.
grrlscientist | June 15, 2007tags: polar bear cub, Knut, Image of the Day
Six-months-old polar bear Knut snoozes with his minder, Thomas Doerflein, at the zoo in Berlin. Hundreds of visitors still flock to Berlin zoo to get a glimpse of the little bear, who has become a global sensation after surviving rejection by his mother.
Image: AFP [larger]
grrlscientist | June 8, 2007tags: king penguin, Image of the Day
A worker from Rome's Biopark zoo holds a Testudo Kleinmanni hatchling, an endangered species also known as the Egyptian tortoise, on 22 May 2007 at the Naples airport.
Image: Tony Gentile (Reuters) [larger]
grrlscientist | June 7, 2007tags: king penguin, Image of the Day
Hundreds of thousands of penguins, including one of the world's most northerly colonies of King Penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus, live on the Falkand Islands archipelago.
Image: BBC News [larger]
grrlscientist | June 6, 2007tags: blue butterfly, Image of the Day
The large blue butterfly, Maculinea arion, made its earliest recorded appearance at Collard Hill, Somerset, UK, on 2 June. The National Trust-owned site is the only place in the UK where the public have access to see the nation's rarest butterfly.
Image: Butterfly Conservation [larger]
grrlscientist | May 31, 2007tags: aerial images, Michael Collier, National Public Radio, Image of the Day
You have to see all these astonishing aerial images of planet Earth, courtesy of Michael Collier and National Public Radio [3:01].
Image: Michael Collier [larger].
grrlscientist | May 30, 2007tags: Corroboree Frogs, Image of the Day
Baby Corroboree Frogs walk across the gloved palm of reptile keeper Stuart Kozlowski at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Around 130 of the endangered frogs are housed in a purpose built quarantine facility at the zoo to keep a safe population for genetic diversity.
Image: Ian Waldie/Getty Images.
grrlscientist | May 12, 2007
The Asian snake, Rhabdophis tigrinus, obtains toxins from toads it eats and uses the potent chemicals as a defense against predators, according to a new study.
Image: Old Dominion University, Alan Savitsky.
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As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not: we have a…
grrlscientist | May 11, 2007
"Fajada Butte"
The photographer writes; I have been bumming around the Four Corners area this week on a brief archeology/astronomy field trip between semesters. [This image is] from Chaco Canyon, the ancient Puebloan site in NW New Mexico. The crumbling walls of Hungoe Pavi, one of the Chaco "Great Houses", frame Fajada Butte in the distance. There is a site on the top of Fajada Butte that tracked the winter solstice, throwing a dagger of light across a spiral petroglyph.
Image: Dave Rintoul, KSU.
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As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall…
grrlscientist | May 10, 2007
Anolis lizards, Anolis allisoni, from Cuba. A study in the journal Nature is shedding new light on how size differences between males (right) and females (left) may affect the lizard's ability to adapt to new environments.
Image: BBC News.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not…
grrlscientist | May 9, 2007
"Western screech owl"
The photographer writes; The western screech owls are nesting in northern California, and this particular owl is giving the evil eye to the western gray squirrel climbing down the tree. Only the squirrel's tail was visible when the photo was taken by a remote camera just before dusk.
Image: Camera Trap Codger.
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As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out…