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‘Byte-size’ plants: Singapore Herbarium goes online.
Some 800,000 dried plant specimens from the 150-year-old Singapore Herbarium are being digitised using Picturae’s conveyor belt imaging system. a photojournalist looks at the process and tries his hand at digitising the specimens
https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2025/11/herbarium-plants-digitise-singapore/index.html?shell #globalmuseum #Flora #herbs #collections
For the first time, scientists have documented a plant that mimics the smell of injured ants to attract pollinators.
A dogbane species native to Japan, releases chemical compounds that match the odor ants give off when attacked by spiders.
The discovery reveals that floral deception is more diverse than previously thought and suggests many other hidden plant mimicry strategies may still be undiscovered.
by Liz Kimbrough
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/japanese-plant-smells-like-dying-ant-to-lure-pollinators/
For the first time, scientists have documented a plant that mimics the smell of injured ants to attract pollinators.
A dogbane species native to Japan, releases chemical compounds that match the odor ants give off when attacked by spiders.
The discovery reveals that floral deception is more diverse than previously thought and suggests many other hidden plant mimicry strategies may still be undiscovered.
by Liz Kimbrough
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/japanese-plant-smells-like-dying-ant-to-lure-pollinators/
Wishing everyone a bloomin’ good #WildflowerWednesday.
#BeeKind #bees #insects #bloomscrolling #flora #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #SimpleThings #DelightOverDarkness
Wishing everyone a bloomin’ good #WildflowerWednesday.
#BeeKind #bees #insects #bloomscrolling #flora #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #SimpleThings #DelightOverDarkness
“Daisies pied and violets blue / And lady-smocks all silver-white.” ~ William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour's Lost (# 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵)
#SilentSunday#ShakespeareSunday #bloomscrolling #flora #purple #nature#NaturePhotography#SolaceInNature#DelightOverDarkness
“Daisies pied and violets blue / And lady-smocks all silver-white.” ~ William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour's Lost (# 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵)
#SilentSunday#ShakespeareSunday #bloomscrolling #flora #purple #nature#NaturePhotography#SolaceInNature#DelightOverDarkness
Adonis Blazingstar (my new nom de plume?) and Bluewater Speedwell, both native, one found on my evening walk near Bear Creek, the other in a hoop house out on the plains.
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