Spineless, brainless—and voracious! Lacking long tentacles to catch prey, the oven mitt jelly (Beroe forskalii) opens its cavernous, curved mouth and engulfs other jellies whole. Collected in Monterey Bay and on exhibit now!
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Blue Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa caerulea
Undoubtedly the Blue Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa caerulea (Hymenoptera - Apidae) is one of the most striking among the carpenter bees. It is a large bee, close to an inch in length, with a hairy blue thorax, black abdomen, and long black eyes.
These Asian bees are non-aggressive. They nest in wood, and are semi-solitary, it is that they don’t have hives like honey bees do, but sometimes several queens will share a common entry hole to their nest. Since carpenter bees nest in dead wood, they sometimes do damage to the leaves of old houses, and can be pests. However, they are important pollinators of both native and agricultural plants, which more than makes up for the occasional damage they do to already-rotten wood. Being large and strong bees, the flowers pollinated by these bees may have an especially strong architecture.
Photo credit: ©folicallychalled | Locality: Cimahi, Jawa Barat, Indonesia (2013)
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My precious #lemur #melbournezoo #Madagascar (at Melbourne Zoo)
photos by (click pic) michael poliza, dennis fast and matthias brieter of polar bears amongst the fireweed in churchill, manitoba. the area has the largest, and most southerly, concentration of the animals on the planet. in late summer and early fall the polar bears make their way to the hudson bay, waiting for it to freeze over so they can hunt for seals on the ice. but every year, the ice is forming later and later, forcing the polar bears to go hungry for longer.
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