Nature

Contemplating Beauty
Beauty can be a wonderful inspiration for daily life. When I have concentrated on beauty I have found it living in more and more places and people. I see it in the art friends share, I see it in nature, in creative projects, in how someone approaches someone with care and kindness, patience and compassion. Home projects made for self or loved ones become beautiful in their design or usefulness.
By Virginia McGuire4 years ago in Earth
Butterfly
butterfly, (superfamily Papilionoidea), any of numerous species of insects belonging to multiple families. Butterflies, along with the moths and the skippers, make up the insect order Lepidoptera. Butterflies are nearly worldwide in their distribution.The wings, bodies, and legs, like those of moths, are covered with dustlike scales that come off when the animal is handled. Unlike moths, butterflies are active during the day and are usually brightly coloured or strikingly patterned. Perhaps the most distinctive physical features of the butterfly are its club-tipped antennae and its habit of holding the wings vertically over the back when at rest. The lepidopteran life cycle has four stages: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis), and adult (imago). The larvae and adults of most butterflies feed on plants, often only specific parts of specific types of plants.The butterfly families include: Pieridae, the whites and sulfurs, known for their mass migrations; Papilionidae, the swallowtails and parnassians; Lycaenidae, including the blues, coppers, hairstreaks, and gossamer-winged butterflies; Riodinidae, the metalmarks, found chiefly in the American tropics; Nymphalidae, the brush-footed butterflies; Hesperiidae, the skippers; and Hedylidae, the American moth-butterflies (sometimes considered a sister group to Papilionoidea). The brush-footed butterflies represent the largest and most diverse family and include such popular butterflies as the admirals, fritillaries, monarchs, zebras, and painted ladies. See also lepidopteran for more detailed coverage.fritillary, name applied to butterflies in several genera (family Nymphalidae). Large fritillaries, or silverspots, belong to the genus Speyeria and usually have silver markings on the underside of their wings. Many of the smaller fritillaries are members of the genus Boloria. Many fritillary larvae are nocturnal and feed on violet leaves.Male bees are usually short-lived and never collect pollen, nor do they have other responsibilities in connection with providing for the young. Female bees do all the work of nest making and provisioning and usually have special anatomical structures that assist them in carrying pollen. Most bees are polylectic, meaning that they gather pollen from a wide variety of flowers. However, some bees collect pollen only from flowers of certain families, others from flowers of certain colours. Oligolectic bees gather pollen from only a few related kinds of flowers. The mouth parts of bees, like the pollen-collecting and pollen-carrying devices, seem to be adapted to different flowers.Most of the Apoidea are solitary, or nonsocial, in habit and do not live in colonies. In these species each female makes her own nest (usually a burrow in the ground) and provisions it. Among such bees there are no castes. Some solitary bees make chimneys or turrets at the nest entrance, others nest in wood or in the pith of twigs or canes. Most solitary bees are short-lived as adults. Some species may be in flight only a few weeks of the year, having spent the rest of the year in their cells as eggs, larvae, pupae, and young adults.
By prashant4 years ago in Earth
Trees benefit health
Trees benefit health The canopies of trees act as a physical filter, trapping dust and absorbing pollutants from the air. Each individual tree removes up to 1.7 kilos every year. They also provide shade from solar radiation and reduce noise.
By prashant4 years ago in Earth
Join the Dark Side
Have you ever tried to purposefully go to something that you don't enjoy because your crush does it? That was me in February of 2011 as a college freshman. Her name was April and I was infatuated wholly.
By John Eva4 years ago in Earth
12 Indoor Plants That Are Almost Impossible to Kill
Not everyone has a naturally green thumb, but that's okay because there are many hard-to-kill houseplants that come to the rescue when you want to add greenery to your home.
By Max Bryant4 years ago in Earth
The Unique Way in Which Different Species of Carnivorous Plants Survive
Carnivorous plants have begun to attract more and more flower lovers, due to their survival instinct: they can live in poor places from a nutritional point of view, feeding only on live insects.
By Yahya Connor4 years ago in Earth
Green Roofs - A Small First Step Towards a Cleaner World
In a world where pollution, intensive deforestation, and the lack of a global vision of the environment are becoming more and more evident, green roofs can be that small first step towards a cleaner, more beautiful, and less monotonous world.
By Yahya Connor4 years ago in Earth
Agriculture & Farming
Since then we have been growing our own food and producing good quality food and we are now ready to put our business in motion. Our team are all part of the farmers market and we are really excited to be able to grow food for our own family. We are really proud to be one of the first to grow food for our own family, and we would love for you to be one of our customers.
By lalto4 years ago in Earth
The Purpose You Were Born Into This World
From birth to death, every natural creature strives to bring more life into the world and to improve the natural environment in which they live.
By vignesh kumar4 years ago in Earth
Upper Mustang Trek: The Hidden Kingdom in Nepal
What do you think about a taboo realm? Might you want to visit a solitary if at any time got an opportunity? Indeed, Upper Mustang is the taboo realm of Nepal where foregin guests weren't allowed to go till 1992. Be that as it may, Nowadays foregin individuals are heartly welcome to the delightful spot immaculate by the rest of the world. Upper Mustang takes after the excellence of the nature in it's most perfect structure ever conceivable.
By Shubham Patil4 years ago in Earth
What is Killing our Bees?
Listen to this article on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the autumn of 2006, a strange phenomenon occurred on farms throughout the US. Beekeepers across the country emerged to check on their hives in preparation for the coming winter. They expected to find bustling insect metropolises humming with the activity of thousands of industrious worker bees storing food for the winter ahead. But the worker bees were gone.
By Shane Peter Conroy4 years ago in Earth
The Night Sky
Regardless of how far along you are in your refinement as a novice space expert, there is dependably one principal second that we as a whole return to. That will be that absolute first second that we went out where you could truly see the universe well and you took in the night sky. For city tenants, this is a disclosure as significant as though we found outsiders living among us. The greater part of us have no clue the immense scene of lights that dab a starry evening sky when there are no city lights to impede the view.
By Mandeep Singh4 years ago in Earth