I just put some new plants in my aquarium and my froggos are loving it! The fish don't seem to care in the slightest (which is good because the plants don't get eaten) but Benoit and Antoine have found new places to climb and new leaves to hide under. #aquarium#frogs#fish
The pond corner. The barrel will hold #peas later, but now it's #tulips (starring the double orange Orca), plus purple honesty that I dug up from where it had self-seeded. Behind it, #hellebores obscure the tiny pond, which is tucked into the corner and supports a few #frogs and #newts. A neighbor offered me her Victorian fireplace surround so I put it here with a mirror tucked behind, a trick from garden designer Mirabel Osler.
#frogs Many-lined tree frog (Dendropsophus haraldschultzi) photographed by John Sullivan. Presumably, this frog is named after someone called Harald Schultz, but if you google that name in English Wikipedia or in Portuguese Wikipedia you get wildly different results. English: "Harald Schultz (1895-1957) was a German general during World War II." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Schultz
Portuguese: "Harald Schultz (1909-1966) was a translator, ichthyologist, ethnographer and photographer." https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Schultz
#frogs Scientifically, this one is called Boana calcarata, but it goes by many names: Troschel's treefrog, blue-flanked treefrog or the convict treefrog (maybe because it seems to wear a prison outfit). Photographed by Geoff Gallice.
For #FindsFriday, an adorable #Egyptian#frog amulet, made of carnelian. Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.
From Qau el-Kabir, Old kingdom (c. 2700 BC – c. 2200 BC), now at the Manchester Museum.
In a backyard setting, a small pond will be very beneficial to #wildlife. Here's the hand-dug bi-level pond in my garden. The upper section is shallow for animals to bathe and drink: bees, birds, bunnies. The lower section is wider (<4.5 feet) deeper (<3 feet). #Frogs in my area prefer small quiet ponds.
The special black liner can be purchased, seen here because deer, my nemesis, knocked many rocks off.
... competing with wing loss in flies (flightlessness), at 25 events counted to date. Can't find an up to date citation; a neat phylogenetic tree of #Diptera marking all the apomorphic events was shown to me by Darren Williams. There's Wagner & Liebherr 1992 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016953479290047F listing 22 insect orders with flightless species: almost all of them have species with secondary wing loss.