vurtual: Road to nowhere (by Jan Gravekamp)
understorey: An Inside Look at Pitcher Plants A pitcher plant’s work seems simple: their tube-shaped leaves catch and hold rainwater, which drowns the ants, beetles, and flies that stumble in. But the rainwater inside a pitcher plant is not just a malevolent dunking pool. It also hosts a complex system of aquatic life, including wriggling mosquito, flesh fly, and midge larvae; mites; rotifers; copepods; nematodes; and multicellular algae. These tiny organisms are crucial to the pitcher plant’s ability to process food. They create what scientists call a ‘processing chain’: when a bug drowns in the pitcher’s rainwater, midge larvae swim up and shred it to smaller pieces, bacteria eat the shredded pieces, rotifers eat the bacteria, and the pitcher plant absorbs the rotifers’ waste. But that’s not the whole story. Fly larvae are also eating the rotifers, midge larvae, and each other, and everybody eats bacteria. It’s a complex food web that shifts on the order of seconds. Predicting food-web structure with metacommunity models Image: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/press-resources-inside-look-pitcher-plants-4113 Related: Nepenthes pitfall traps are an anti-microbial environment

School is officially over as of Saturday and all you punk bitches stuck with me in my inactivity so thank you. 

Hieronymus Bosch- The Ascent of the Blessed 
indigodreams: book-aesthete: The  Water-Babies Charles Kingsley. London,  1886.  100  illustrations  by  Linley  Sambourne.  Elaborate  blue  morocco  binding  by  Kelliegram  featuring  morocco  inlays  of  a  fish,  a  child  swimming,  and  seagulls,  spine  lettered  gilt,  edges  gilt.    Blue  cloth  folding  case. 
nevver: Morning becomes electric
booooooom: Paintings by Erik Thor Sandberg.