Felicidades Constanza, tu Amancay es nuestra "Spotting of the Day":
"We travel to South America today with these gorgeous Peruvian lilies (Alstroemeria aurea) as our Spotting of the Day! Plants in the genus Alstroemeria are all native to South America, although they have become naturalized and are considered invasive in other parts of the world including the USA, New Zealand and Australia. The genus Alstroemeria was named by Linnaeus himself after one of his students, Clas Alströmer. This species is found in Chile, Argentina and Peru, and is known as 'amancay dorado' in Spanish".
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Broad and fan-shaped caps, growing in clusters; blue-grey above, shiny just after the rain. Gills white, converging to a stipe, laterally attached to the wood.
Es una planta de tallos simples y erguidos, que alcanzan desde los 40 cm hasta más de 1 m de altura. Las hojas son lanceoladas a oblanceoladas. En verano exhibe flores amarillas a anaranjadas, con manchas rojizas; con 6 tépalos y dispuestas en umbelas. El fruto es una cápsula elíptica. Tolera brevemente hasta -12 °C; y soporta suelos con pH tan ácido como 5,2. Esta planta no posee un dimorfismo sexual ya que es Hermafrodito. Fruto abierto de Alstroemeria aurea. FUENTE: WIKIPEDIA
Of some 5 cm in wingspan, this is a predominantly orange butterfly with white borders and black pattern on wings. I'm not absolutely sure about the ID, and I was thinking Meadow (M. parthenoides)...
This tiny fungus is a exact replica of a bird nest. Yellow/Brown in the cup where the egs are atached by a cord(funiculus),when a drop of rain hit the nest the egs are projected and the cord brock,but continue atached to the egs that use it to grab themselfs to the leaves that are arround.
Es una planta de tallos simples y erguidos, que alcanzan desde los 40 cm hasta más de 1 m de altura. Las hojas son lanceoladas a oblanceoladas. En verano exhibe flores amarillas a anaranjadas, con manchas rojizas; con 6 tépalos y dispuestas en umbelas. El fruto es una cápsula elíptica. Tolera brevemente hasta -12 °C; y soporta suelos con pH tan ácido como 5,2. Esta planta no posee un dimorfismo sexual ya que es Hermafrodito. Fruto abierto de Alstroemeria aurea. FUENTE: WIKIPEDIA
Mapping Nature on Your Smartphone
For the developers at New York start-up Networked Organisms, smartphones are the butterfly nets of the 21st Century. Their tool, Project Noah, lets people upload photos of plants and wildlife around them, creating a map of the natural world and contributing to scientific research in the process.
What kind of beetle? This app knows
Bespectacled scientists of yore would carry around hefty field guides, made up of hundreds of pages of text and photos. But these days, smartphone owners have a lighter option: an app called Project Noah, which aims to help people identify plants and animals as well as collect data from "citizen scientists" about where certain species are located.
Designing ecosystems for talent development
Project Noah enables us to be part of a more focused online community where we can learn more about wildlife around us and contribute to scientific research. It pulls participants into deeper, more meaningful engagement by enabling people to go on “missions” to collectively map changes based on sightings.
A smart way to save wildlife
A modern invention that may also hold the key to saving species in the future. Project Noah is a global study that encourages nature lovers to document the wildlife they encounter, using a purpose built phone app and web community. In addition to the virtual "collection" of species, Project Noah encourages citizen science by linking up with existing surveys including the International Spider Survey and the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.
Dial-a-Class
New mobile applications include a tool called NOAH that lets you take cellphone pictures of bugs and trees and then sends back an identification of the exact type in as little as 24 hours.
