It might also be Crucibulum laeve. I didn't have my field guide on me to ID them. Whenever I plant a pollinator garden at work, we can't use chemicals on it. The soil micro/macrofauna become really diverse as a result. The only two places I've seen in this area with populations of this fungi are both pollinator gardens.

I think phebalium squamulosum is pretty funny to say

Red and green kangaroo paw. I don't see them wild very often so it's always a buzz when I do (they're a common garden species but it's not the same!)

Pterostylis recurva. I don't know if I've ever seen one before, certainly not recently! Really cool. Had no idea they grew on campus. There were like five or six plants in a little patch.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/28117898

The Atlas blue butterfly is found in the mountain ranges of Morocco and northeast Algeria.

While it had been suspected to have the most chromosome pairs in the animal kingdom, this is the first time experts have sequenced the butterfly genome to confirm.

For comparison, a close relative found widely in the UK, the common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus), has 24 chromosomes.

Changes in chromosome numbers are thought to contribute to the process of new species forming and help species adapt to their environment.

These ones are more commonly known as the "slipper limpet", and here's how they reproduce, according to Wikipedia:

The species is a sequential hermaphrodite. The slipper limpet normally lives in stacks of up to 12 individuals, with the largest at the bottom and with increasingly smaller individuals stacked on top of one another. The largest and oldest animals, at the base of a pile are female, the younger and smaller animals at the top are male. If the females in the stack die, the largest of the males will become a female.

They have a fucking SEX PILE and if one of the females dies, one of the males just changes her sex and fills in where the last female left off. How cool is that???

A cowslip (Caladenia flava), a very common flower that is pretty much always the first orchid out where present. The other Caladenia spp. are generally bigger, showier and present flowers higher up (around waist level) and I love all of them, but I have a soft spot for this gorgeous, rich yellow flower.

It's a Sundew, Drosera erythrogine I think. Always get a kick out of them.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6083429

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