#green ash

[mindblowingscience]

Streetlights Could Be Causing Insects to Starve, Scientists Warn

Lighting up our nightscapes can make plants tougher to chew on, forcing insects to find food elsewhere or go hungry, a new study finds.

Lighting up our nightscapes can make plants tougher to chew on, forcing insects to find food elsewhere or go hungry, a new study finds. This could be contributing to the worldwide decline in insects and have flow-on impacts on entire ecosystems, according to a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "We noticed that, compared to natural ecosystems, tree leaves in most urban ecosystems generally show little sign of insect damage," explains environmental scientist Shuang Zhang. "We were curious as to why."

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[hellsitegenetics]

hope i get a lizard. i literally love those little guys i grew up in florida and all i did in my free time is catch brown anoles and the like and give them little pats. theres this one kinda lizard native to florida thats green and color changes to brown, and i had only really heard of them in nature articles or whatever because they werent really around in my area but i made it my lifes mission to catch one of those lil shitters. and after years. i think it was last year maybe? i found one at a playground near my house. and he was beautiful. exactly the kind i was looking for, and he was even shedding a bit (always love to find shedding lizards). but every time i passed that playground, i could never catch him. and every time i fucking tried to get a picture he would immediately change to brown. from then on, i dubbed him Green Bean Greebo. He is my one true nemesis.

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Closest match: Fraxinus pennsylvanica genome assembly, chromosome: 9 Common name: Green ash

[pallanophblargh]

Color! Composition still wonky, but this was done mainly to see how I liked the colors and such. I can reposition and resize birds/leaves/etc another time. And get a decent proper hexagon drawn up.

This has been an exercise in not letting perfection hold me back. I have to start getting back into art somehow, right?

[riverwindphotography]

Yield

(c) riverwindphotography, October, 2019

[pallanophblargh]

Still massively burned out and not exactly using my time wisely outside of going to work and keeping the plants and fish alive… but I roused from my art blocked stupor briefly to slap some color on this. I forgot how trees and leaves work, and composition, so that will come later. (Also can’t draw hexagons but that’s true for most people)

Personal art for my use only. I swear I will get back to other proper thing’s hopefully sooner rather than later?

[pallanophblargh]

These two pieces have been scanned up and are now available as prints and other products in my society6 shop!

“Unsung Saint: Cathartes aura” and “The Long Minnesota Goodbye.” Still working on a few more pyrography pieces with gold embellishments to fill out the “saints” series.

[pallanophblargh]

I think I can call this finished, but I’ll sleep on it just to be sure.

All of my pieces for this show have a pretty bleak tone to be sure, and this one is no exception.

Golden winged warbler, blue winged warbler, and the hybrid Lawrence’s warbler with green ash tree infested with emerald ash borers. Stories of steep declines and futures of uncertainty.

Watercolors with touches of colored pencils and metallic gold gouache on Arches 140 lb hot press paper, 11 x 14”.

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Green Ash

Green Ash (Fraxinus lanceolata), when forest grown, is a medium-sized, round-topped tree with a straight, undivided bole (trunk) and slender, spreading branches. It rarely exceeds a height of 18 meters (60 feet) and a diameter of 61 cm (24 inches). Deep-seated, fibrous roots, which extend laterally (sideways) form the characteristic root system. Fraxinus_pennsylvanica Green Ash Opposite leaves…

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