Rhodomela subfusca. Sea mosses, a collector's guide and an introduction to the study of marine Algae. 1881.
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Rhodomela subfusca. Sea mosses, a collector's guide and an introduction to the study of marine Algae. 1881.
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What is an elapid?
an elapid is any snake from the family Elapidae!
this snake family notoriously contains some of the hardest-hitting venomous animals on the planet, including cobras, kraits, and sea snakes.
so as far as elapids go, you can look, but do not FUCKING touch.
Can u tell me about moss
(okay so this is gonna be a long post bc i took and then TAed a class partially about mosses so anybody who doesnt want a moss crash course should start scrolling now)
formally mosses are the only things in the taxonomic division Bryophyta. informally youâll hear people refer to mosses as well as liverworts (Marchantiophyta) and hornworts (Anthocerotophyta) as âbryophytesâ, because for a long time the three were all lumped into that division together, and people got used to using the term âbryophyteâ interchangeably with ânonvascular plantâ.Â
that term, ânonvascularâ, is the big distinguisher for these three. basically these plants are very, very ancient lineages, as in liverworts are suspected to be the first plants to crawl out of the primordial ooze, and they donât have proper, distinguishable vascular tissues (xylem and phloem are the main ones in all vascular âhigherâ plants that forms the other 99% of the plant kingdom). they have primitive vascular tissues, but theyâre not hefty enough to do much in terms of moving water through the plant. their ancestors werenât able to get very far from the shore of the sea/away from a water source, because they needed to stay wet and depended on water for reproduction. while the latter is still true, modern mosses can be very well adapted to dry areas, and some are able to completely desiccate themselves and go dormant for long periods of time before being revived with the next rain.Â
out of this triad of Old Lads, mosses and (leafy) liverworts look the most similar and get mixed up the most (there are âleafyâ liverworts and âthalloidâ liverworts. thalloid liverworts are wack and do not look like mosses at all). the differences between them are incredibly minute, but (leafy!!) liverworts, to be crude about it, are kind of proto-mosses with simpler physiologies. a common signifier is that leafy liverworts almost never have a costa (a single vein running down the middle of each leaf) and instead have completely smooth leaves, whereas costas are common in mosses. other differences are infuriatingly consequential (âoh, but see this liverwort has a costa but itâs still a liverwort, donât ask questionsâ) and honestly i have no idea who decided which plants were leafy liverworts and which plants were mosses, but thatâs just me.
i should mention also that mosses, like liverworts, are split into two major groups based on their growth forms: âacrocarpousâ mosses are mosses whoâs stalks stand straight up, and âpleurocarpousâ mosses are mosses whoâs stalks crawl along the ground. acrocarpous mosses wonât have branching stalks, whereas pleurocarpous mosses can. an example of an acrocarpous moss is on the left, an example of a pleurocarpous moss is on the right:
mosses do not flower. they reproduce by spores. liverworts and hornworts also reproduce by spores, not flowers. itâs easy to forget that ferns, which are like, THE original Old Lads, are actually younger than these lineages and are considered vascular plants for having more advanced xylems and phloems, and flowers didnât come for several hundred million years after them. mosses reproduce by producing male and female reproductive organs on the parent plant, with sperm and eggs being produced in each, respectively. the sperm can swim, and fertilize the female eggs, which then sprout while still on the plant into stalks (seta) with capsules on the end. these capsules are full of spores, and when the plant is ready the tip falls off and lets the spores catch the breeze, and hopefully a few will find suitable conditions to sprout into new mosses. the entire cycle looks like this:
okay. habitats. mosses live on such a small scale that itâs best to think of how they live in terms of microhabitats instead of habitats, meaning that like, if you look at a forest from the road, thatâs one habitat, but the mosses in that forest are experiencing a ton of microhabitats within that habitat. a moss that grows on the side of the tree will dry out really fast after it rains, so a species that might be more susceptible to overwatering may survive better on a tree trunk than at the base of the tree; both places, although at the same physical location, provide way different conditions and will be favored by different species.Â
a moss that grows in a crack on the pavement will probably be absolutely swimming in water when it rains, so itâs probably a species thatâs either fine with being submerged (and regularly trampled) or otherwise tolerant of it. a moss growing under a decaying log will have more shelter than others, and will have less airflow and higher humidity. if youâre a moss living on the bark on the side of a stump, and that bark rots enough to one day peel away and fall off, that might be absolutely devastating to you despite only losing like one inch of area, but the newly-exposed rotting hardwood creates a new microhabitat that might be favored by other species. itâs one of those things that you really start to notice once you start thinking about it.
now. i want to end this post with the worldâs tallest self-supporting moss. my lichen and bryophyte professor has seen this moss in person and has confirmed it is really just Like That. the moss is the acrocarpus Dawsonia superba, and itâs native to Oceana. the tallest ever found was in Borneo, and was a meter tall. hereâs a picture of it by gailtv on iNatrualist, observed december 17th, 2015 in New Zealand:
Chonkersâ˘. now, the largest moss that doesnât support itself is a pleurocarpous moss-vine, Spiridens reinwardtii, also native to Oceania, which crawls up tree trunks and can grow to a length of 3 meters. hereâs one spotted by dantn, also on iNaturalist, observed august 23rd 2006 in northern Indonesia (itâs the one that looks like artificial christmas tree branches. thatâs one single moss):
end note: i think iâve recced this book on here before but a really good book to learn more about mosses is Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer, which is a required book for the course i learned all this in and helped teach later. itâs not a field guide (for that I would recommend finding a moss and liverwort ID guide for your region), but itâs just about mosses in general and essays about how great and wild they are. VERY much worth it
One night I found a diving beetle. A big one! This is possibly a vertical diving beetle, but either way it's a predaceous diving beetle. Meaning they feed on other invertebrates and sometimes even small fish or tadpoles!
Here you can get an idea for the size. Almost 2 inches long I'd say, and pretty wide too. These beetles breathe underwater by storing air in the form of a flat bubble under their elytra - the hard parts on the back of a beetle that defines them as, well, a beetle. They can stay underwater without coming up for air for... uhm... sources give conflicting answers, but AT LEAST 10 minutes is agreed upon. Possibly hours! And all they need to refresh their air supply is a quick trip to the surface!
This particular beetle is a male - you can tell by the octopus-like suckers in the 2nd picture here. Diving beetles are SO smooth, the males need the suckers to hold on during mating. They're streamlined to travel through the water - they need to be fast to catch their prey and avoid predators!
Another adaptation of diving beetles is that their back legs are flat and covered in special strands that give them the shape of an oar. This is to help them swim of course, but it makes them slow on land. So you'll rarely ever see one outside the water. However, if their pond dries up or they need to escape through the air for whatever reason - they CAN fly as well!
Diving beetles are NOT dangerous for humans, and are pretty neutral on the pest/helper scale. They eat the larvae of a lot of annoying bugs, but may also choke a pond's fish and frog populations by eating their young too. You can safely scoop one up (I recommend a net, they're slippery as hell) and hold it. Even if they try to bite, their bite is too weak to hurt you.
WARNING: Just be CAREFUL not to confuse a diving beetle for a Giant Water bug - they can look similar at a glance, but Giant Water bugs absolutely WILL fuck you up and give you severe injuries!!! They also usually inhabit the same ecosystems, so be careful before grabbing a huge swimming bug out of a body of water! And, if you're keeping either as a pet, keep them in a tank separate from any other creatures you might have (unless they're intentionally there as food).
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the tallest pagoda fungus (Podoserpula pusio) iâve ever seen!!