Images Dated 25th April 2014

Araucana chicken (Gallus domesticus)

Araucana chicken (Gallus domesticus) with a cock behind. The hen is of the tailless variety, a Rumpless Araucana, and it shows the strange warty feature where the earlobe is usually seen. Origin: Chile

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Aves, Bird, Breed, Chicken, Chickens, Cockerel, Domestic, Domesticated, Ear, Farmyard Animals, Female, Fowl, Galliformes, Gallus, Gallus Gallus Domesticus, Hen, Hens, Livestock, Male, Phasianidae, Plica, Poultry, Rooster, Tufts

Larvae of European pine sawfly (Neodiprion sertifer)

Larvae of European pine sawfly (Neodiprion sertifer) feeding on pine needles of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). They may defoliate one tree and remove to another to feed. Generally the tree, though its growth may be stunted, will survive. Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

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Apidae, Defoliating, Defoliators, Feeds On Pine Needles, Hymenoptera, Insect, Insecta, Introduced To North America, Large Group Of Animals, Neodiprion, Sawflies, Sawfly, Silviculture Pest, Spring, Stunts Tree Growth, Tree Pest

Regeneration of forest burned a starry night

Regeneration of a burned forest, has only grown weed and some tree that was saved from forest fire, a starry night in the light of the moon

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