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if you ever felt bad about asking someone a question you thought was "dumb" or "basic" stop that immediately. i promise the person you're talking to wants to talk about the thing they're autistic about. ask the stupid question
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“Byler should get murrayed” “byler should get ericad” Ok but murray n erica should debate who fell first hear me out
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please i need to see byler get ericad like shed expose mike so hard she’d literally be like “if i keep seeing you make goo goo eyes at him im going to vomit”
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What are all (and i mean all) of ur stranger things ships
uhm, we gon be there a while 🤭 but
byler
byclair
bywheelclair
wheelclair
henclair
henderhop
lumax
elmax
jopper
jargyle
murray x alexei
elumax
madwheeler(platonic with a capital P)
erica x dustin(platonic)
stobin(platonic)
steddie(not as much as the crazy fan girls)
stonathan
ronance<3
veccnie boo x me 🤭
erica x me ericad🤭
rockie
ronanie? idk what robin x nance x vickie ship name is
henry x me 🤭
jason x upside down 🤭
eddie x christie(platonic with a capital P)
duzie
lonnie x death 🤭
mr. clarke x mr hauser(read rebel robin to know more)
terry x anthony
willel(platonic) (wonder twinsss)
that’s all i can think of rn, thanks for the ask!
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Who Pollinates the Flame Azalea?
By and large, one of the most endearing aspects of doing research in Southern Appalachia are the myriad Ericaceous species you inevitably encounter. Throughout the growing season, their flowers paint the mountainsides in a symphony of color. One of my favorite species to encounter is the flame azalea (Rhododendron calendulaceum).
This shrubby spectacle is a common occurrence where I work and its flowers, which range from bright yellows to deep orange and even red, put on a show that lasts a couple of weeks. It's not just me who enjoys the flowers either. Countless insects can be seen flitting to and from each blossom, sucking up rich reserves of nectar and pollen. It is interesting to watch a bee visit these flowers. Their outlandishly long anthers and style seem to be mostly out of reach for these smaller pollinators.
Bees attempting to grab some pollen look outlandishly clumsy in their attempts. What's more, small insects only seem to be able to get either nectar or pollen on any given visit. Rarely if ever do they make contact with the right floral parts that would result in effective pollination. Indeed, I am not the only person to have noticed this. Despite being visited by a wide array of insect species, only large butterflies seem capable to pollinating the flame azaleas stunning blooms.
The mechanism by which this happens is quite interesting. The reason small insects do not effectively pollinate these flowers has to do with the position of the anthers and style. Sticking far out from the center of the flower, they are too widely spaced to be contacted by small insect visitors. Instead, the only insects capable to transferring pollen from anthers to stigma are large butterflies. What is most strange about this relationship is that it all hinges on the size of the butterflies wings.
Only two species of butterfly, the eastern tiger swallowtail and the orange spangled fritillary, were observed to possess the right wing size and placement to achieve effective pollination for the flame azalea (though I suspect other larger species do so as well). This is quite unique as this is the only report of wing-mediated pollen transfer in northern temperate regions. The research team that discovered this noted that pollen transfer was greatest with the eastern tiger swallowtail, which is a voracious nectar hunter during the summer months.
Despite their popularity in pollinator gardens, butterflies are often considered poor pollinators. That being said, pollen transfer via wing surfaces has been a largely overlooked mechanism of pollination. Coupled with a handful of reports from tropical regions, this recent finding suggests that we must take a closer look at plant pollinator interactions, especially for plants that produce flowers with highly exerted anthers and stigmas. As the authors of the study put it, "transfer of pollen by butterfly wings may not be a rare event."
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#orange spangled fritillary#pollinators#azalea#ericaceae#Ericads#flame azalea#tiger swallowtail butterfly#Rhododendron calendulaceum
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BLOOD PIPE
BLOOD PIPE
#monotropa coccinea always in my thoughts#hes so ominous looking#he lives in central america btw#plants#parasitic plants#fucked up little mycoheterotrophic ericads
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Checkout the latest #CEREALTALK vlog episode! !!!!!
#lahhatlreunion thekiahamsters#jakeone#sethmeyershoststheemmys#ericaD#eredcarpet#tyburrell#perfect on the radio#theamazingrace#jimparsons#animalhouzrecordz#fleeta partee#seattlehiphopscene#theseattlehiphopscene
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The Heath family expresses itself quite extravagantly in these mountains. #appalachia #rhododendron #appalachianmountains #botany #botanical #botanizing #mountains #balds #sphagnum #appalachianbalds #ridgetop #NorthCarolina #NorthAmerica #nativeplants #moss #habitat #ecology #flowers #plants #plantnerd #plants #shrubs #heath #ericaceae #ericads #summer #plantoftheday #shrubsofinstagram
#northcarolina#nativeplants#ridgetop#plants#shrubs#appalachianmountains#botanical#mountains#botany#ericads#heath#sphagnum#ericaceae#plantoftheday#rhododendron#northamerica#appalachianbalds#flowers#moss#summer#botanizing#appalachia#plantnerd#shrubsofinstagram#balds#habitat#ecology
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botanists may technically be biologists, but the gulf of difference between "guy who stays inside 24/7 under fluorescent lights testing whether rats react to the newest antidepressant with a sufficiently side effect laden response" and "guy who goes in the woods and counts the number of ericads and appreciates the beauty of nature" is so vast they may as well be two different species of creature
#plants#botany#one time i saw a guy on whatsthisplant with a bs in biology tag identify a plant completely wrong and then say the plural of genus is genii#his level of confidence........... unreal#its genera btw. in case anyone needed to hear that
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