BBB 07 & 08

- Though I did my two Blogger BioBlitzes on different continents, there’s one species that’s so widespread that I’ve seen it each year: Fragaria vesca (you can check out this wikipedia page there’s an interesting range for fruit morphology!).

Fragaria vesca, fruits and flower

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BGR #10 is coming soon…

Don’t forget to send your botanical posts to the next Berry Go Round, which will take place shortly and will be posted at 10 000 Birds…

Plants and the city

Okay, so it seems to be a recurrent theme at Seeds Aside these days. Not an obscession yet, I’ll try to prevent this to happen, but there’s quite an happy marriage between plants and architecture (just like here or there, and now this post is adding up too).

Grille Noire Bioblitz -Part 2. (plants)

So here is the plant post for the Blogger BioBlitz 2008. The flora described here is rather common within the region outside these woods, but species composition is varying from one year to the next in this particular area, since it is slowly recovering from a big storm about a decade earlier. Plants species composition seems nevertheless [...]

More linkiness

Please check out the new blog roll additions:

Beetles in the bush
Mutual Causality
Ramblings Around Texas
EDGE
Landscape Design

Green roofs & roof greens

More urban vegetalisation at The World’s Fair. Staying hooked!

Collateral Blogger BioBlitz

 
Though this is not a real bioblitz in the sense that I hadn’t time to investigate about each species living by, I nevertheless also had the chance to census another place.
Quite quickly only, my actual aim was to prepare a natural sciences class.
The most common plants from a forest near Rennes (French Brittany, map here), [...]

Killer bugs

Discover 6 terrifying terrible assassin bugs. (HT The Other 95%)

Vote according to your mind err… skin!

According to recent studies (read a more detailed account at Rationnally Rationnallizingly Speaking), there is a correlation between the skin conductance of people and their political leaning: apparently, the more sensitive someone is to sudden noises and threatening images (as measured by changes in its skin conductance), the more it is inclined to conservative opinions. [...]

Grille Noire Bioblitz -Part 1. (insects and arachnids)

Here is the my BBB 2008 ‘report’ for insects and arachnids during a short bioblitz at the Black Gate Woods.