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@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-08-30 13:45:39

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While algal #blooms are often associated with summer, they can occur in any season. SE #Australia is experiencing a prolonged bloom of Karenia mikimotoi (same genus as Flor…

image/jpeg two microscope images of a golden brown coloured algae cell on the left and a black and white SEM image on the right showing the distinct grooves, one lateral, on vertical where the flagella are located. Images from NOAA and WHOI.
image/jpeg photo of a person on a beach which has extensive piles of brownish white foam. Photo from ABC Caroline Horn. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-17/waitpinga-beach-foam-investigation/105060888
@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-08-09 15:57:04

Our garden
#flowers #blooms #garden

Pink flowers with a rocky party behind them.
Bright orange, yellow, purple, and pink wildflowers.
Purple cone flowers in a garden.
Tall, yellow flowers with a field in the background.
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-08-23 14:00:45

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Last week, I mentioned a ciliate that can cause red tide #blooms. Mesodinium rubrum is an example of a unicellular organism that can both injest food and photosynthesize. Its main prey are cryptomonad

image/jpeg a graphic drawing of Mesodinium rubrum of a round organism with extended spines consuming a Geminigera cryophila cell that has two flagella. Text reads "Steals prey nucleus (kleptokaryon) and other organelles. Final diagram shows organelles inside the cell. From Johnson et al. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.027
image/jpeg a microscope photograph of an oblong orange - brown cell with distinctive radiating spines from the sides. Mesodinium rubrum from NOAA, public domain.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-06-14 15:35:29

Azalea 🌺 blooms a full month after all the others.
"BEHOLD, I shall never submit to your 'schedule'!"
#bloomscrolling #portalberni #yard

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-19 01:22:16

I've got to get up early tomorrow so I might be posting a little bit less than usual. Here's some Joe Pye weed
#photo #photography #bloomscrolling

Four blooms of Joe Pye Weed with a little bit of foliage against a grey background that might have some grooves in it.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-06-28 17:05:14

The (alternative mix*) grass is growing in the driveway and the rock tracks are solid.
* It’s not grass at all. Mostly native clover, plus poppies and some small flowering grasses. It looks patchy but the stated goal on the bag is for about 75% coverage so that it can grow, flower, seed itself, and then fill in naturally next year. I will add a picture of our side path that we did last year. The clover has indeed filled in nicely and it is staying nice and green with minimal water. You can see it on the left in the very back of the picture. The clover is about 30cm/1ft tall and is full of blooms.
#yardwork #diy #portalberni #alternativegrss #clover #bloomscrolling