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The Yellowstone River, photographed near Tower Falls in Yellowstone National Park.
Ok, I kind of covered this parasite earlier this year. In that post, I explained that Mistletoe is a hemi-parasite (only partially dependent on its host for survival) and that the family represents one of the nine times that parasitism evolved in the plant kingdom. I also mentioned that unlike most…
I am back from our trip into the Mountain West - and it was great (see some of the pictures below). We hit Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, the Tobacco Root Mountains, Glacier and Craters of the Moon - and the weather held out on us just fine.
This week is the last week before classes start here at…
One of the reasons that climate change is such a big issue is because the global climate is an integral part of the Earth’s entire ecosystem, tied to so many of the big and little things that society cares about. Figuring out how all these complicated pieces tie together is hard, as is linking…
Moss, no. Lichen yes, a great symbiotic organism.
Looks like Letharia, historically used to poison wolves and foxes.
Thanks for that, I copied the info on its use in wolf trapping to my post on speculated uses for Pleistocene Acheulean biface handaxes/flakes as possible bait traps (inserted into a fish or game meat/fat/organ) to keep nocturnal predators (cats, crocs, wolves) away from the cave/camp. (@ link to my URL)
After all the animal photos are you know taking a lichen to plants?