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May 10, 2023
02:48 PM UTC
Date Added
March 23, 2013
10:00 AM SAST
Description
Acalypha peduncularis
Dioecious plant with coarsely hairy leaves. Male flowers in pedunculate axillary spikes, females in terminal bracteate clusters.
Date Added
January 19, 2024
01:51 PM UTC
Date Added
July 25, 2022
02:43 PM SAST
Description
@angelanoske
Are you familiar with this, it might be this. Its in its resting phase at the moment. It usually grows on disturbed grazing areas.
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February 28, 2023
02:15 PM SAST
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October 24, 2023
05:12 PM SAST
Description
Weedy in a field, an annual, not sure if introduced or indigenous
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January 23, 2024
05:00 PM SAST
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March 29, 2020
01:24 PM UTC
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May 16, 2023
07:32 PM UTC
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November 27, 2022
09:29 AM SAST
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May 1, 2022
05:03 PM UTC
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October 26, 2021
09:34 PM SAST
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May 17, 2022
07:56 PM SAST
Date Added
March 30, 2020
06:09 PM -03
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September 1, 2022
02:55 PM CAT
Date Added
February 22, 2021
06:30 PM EST
Description
Not visible in photos, but the forelegs had 1 claw per tarsus
Date Added
July 3, 2015
04:08 PM NZST
Description
Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, Western Springs Park.
Habitat: Common in a small pond at night (9 p.m.)
Identification: Mesostoma ehrenbergii (Focke, 1836).
Date Added
April 27, 2022
08:53 PM PDT
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April 4, 2022
09:07 AM SAST
Description
seeds of Diospyros lyciodes
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April 5, 2022
08:19 AM SAST
Date Added
February 1, 2020
02:38 PM CAT
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February 23, 2020
12:21 PM SAST
Date Added
October 20, 2021
05:32 PM SAST
Description
Section of fruit - showing partitions containing seeds. Each seed has a gelatinous sheath. The fruits look like swollen flower buds - but have pulled under the surface of the water. The seeds are favoured food of pygmy geese.
Date Added
March 9, 2020
12:37 PM SAST
Description
This plant is growing in the water, peeping through the walkway above. Several of them at this hide.
Date Added
January 15, 2022
10:15 PM SAST
Date Added
January 12, 2022
06:36 AM SAST
Description
Amongst Lemnaceae in quiet backwater.
Date Added
October 15, 2021
11:58 AM CDT
Date Added
March 22, 2021
07:31 PM CET
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July 13, 2020
05:28 PM CEST
Date Added
November 30, 2018
02:50 PM -05
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August 4, 2021
04:02 PM SAST
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June 19, 2020
04:22 PM SAST
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September 18, 2016
12:33 PM EDT
Description
Collected in plankton tow, East Lake Okoboji
Date Added
August 2, 2018
08:41 PM PDT
Description
Radiating legs contracted at times.
Found in small lake.
Date Added
October 22, 2019
09:01 AM SST
Description
Неподвижная клетка. Снято на телефон под любительским микроскопом, из цветочного горшка.
The cell don't move. Photo taken with the phone using amateur microscope. The cell is from ground.
Date Added
September 23, 2021
11:55 AM PDT
Date Added
August 18, 2020
07:09 PM CEST
Date Added
September 14, 2021
05:08 AM SAST
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September 2, 2021
07:57 PM CAT
Date Added
September 2, 2021
07:57 PM CAT
Date Added
June 7, 2021
03:44 PM EDT
Description
Mag. 400x (progression of focal planes)
Pollen? Anyone one know of a handy online reference for identifying the pollen of various plants?
A pond-edge water sample was collected on 6/2/2021 using a 10 micron dip net to enrich for microorganisms. Air temp. 67F
Date Added
July 2, 2021
04:26 PM EDT
Description
Continued observation of new bird bath obtained 20210503. This observation takes place after a 4-day heat wave, followed by a night of rain.
A conidium.
Date Added
May 6, 2021
09:01 PM CEST
Date Added
March 21, 2021
07:41 PM EDT
Description
Unsure about the ID. It clearly has 2 skirts of cilia, one surrounding what appears to be a mouth (top in photo) and one that appears as a low-waisted, decorative fringe :o)
A pond-edge water sample was taken on 3/19/2021 using a 10 micron dip net to enrich for microorganisms. Air temp. 46F
Date Added
May 19, 2021
01:33 AM UTC
Description
Found in a small freshwater pond viewed at 400x mag. Grazing on filamentous green algae (3). Defecating (4). Turning around and vacuuming up its own fecal cloud (4,5). Yum. The consumption of algal cell contents can be seen between images 5 and 6.
Date Added
January 7, 2021
11:09 AM SAST
Date Added
November 2, 2020
11:51 AM SAST
Date Added
April 7, 2019
09:35 PM SAST
Description
After historically planted American Ash were cut down in the Sanctuary, a massive seed bank created a seedling forest. Pic 2 shows removal by tree popper. Fortunately, the grassland has rehabilitated.
Pic 1 is a coppiced stump. These trees grow readily in wet/marshy conditions.
Date Added
September 22, 2020
08:32 PM UTC
Date Added
September 18, 2019
11:06 PM SAST
Date Added
August 16, 2020
04:57 PM SAST
Date Added
June 16, 2020
08:50 PM SAST
Date Added
December 5, 2019
09:42 AM SAST
Date Added
November 16, 2019
07:16 AM SAST
Date Added
October 5, 2019
08:23 PM SAST
Date Added
August 25, 2012
08:36 PM SAST
Description
Lighted Matches Mistletoe
Date Added
February 11, 2019
09:06 AM SAST
Date Added
December 26, 2017
04:12 PM SAST
Date Added
December 7, 2015
08:50 AM SAST
Description
Topknot Snail
Found high up on an arum lily leaf, near ephemeral wetland.
Aquatic snail?