Rain helps to stimulate spore dispersion in mushrooms but this relationship has an intense twist

Spores also act as rainmakers

Their surface structure allows water to condense around it, a nuclei for a raindrop

where ever that falls, is a chance for the seed to germinate 1/
mushroom form drops of water between their gills. These are actually forming on the spores, along with sugar secretions

These spores drift and attract new water to condense around it, billions of spores attracting water, together making rain clouds 2/
Tweet 2 video by @patrickhickey
The word seed in tweet one , please replace with spore

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18 Nov
In Alaska, wolves hunt reindeer relentlessly

To avoid predation, arctic reindeer have evolved a life saving adaptation

They can see UV light, so a perfectly camouflaged wolf against the snow would appear black as it’s fur can’t absorb UV light
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And to capture even more light ...something amazing happens

As summer fades, reindeer eyes also change colour, to deep blue which further enhances the animals vision, helping it to see in dramatically different light levels

This is how it works.. cutt.ly/fTW1oFV
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13 Nov
Look at this leaf visibly producing oxygen as bubbles in the water as it continues photosynthesis

Half of the world's oxygen is produced by phytoplankton, the other half is produced by trees, all the more reason to look after our forests and seas 1/
By trees I mean all plants/trees and seas meaning all water, rivers lakes etc
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11 Nov
This is a nuclear reactor start up, you are seeing the core when the chain reaction becoming self sustaining.

The control rods are pulled up & as they are removed the number of fission reactions is increasing...1/
The water acts as a moderator in the reaction process as well as a coolant.
This fissioning of atoms creates heat that later generates steam to produce electricity. 2/
And this in the video is not a commercial reactor but a research and test one
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21 Aug
This is a dead leaf

Can you see that vibrant green defiant patch? That part is kept alive by the larvae of leaf mining insects, and even though its long fallen off the tree it’s still photosynthesising.

How and why?

📸images Mike Shurmer
Source cutt.ly/kQ8RqrX 1/
Leaf-mining insect lay eggs on leaves

After hatching, the larvae tunnel through into the leaf protected from predation and the plants own defences and eat leaf tissue creating little visible tunnel patterns 2/
these insects pass from generation to generation a certain bacteria that manipulates the leafs own signalling chemicals – hormones called cytokinins. These usually do many tasks preventing a leaf dying 3/
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21 May
The Golden Tortoise Beetle (Aspidimorpha sanctaecrucis) gets to stroll around looking beautiful in the rainy seasons of south east Asia but in its larval stage things were less glamorous... but extremely interesting read on .. 1/

Credit: IG sony_Thokchom
2/ In its larval stage their defence mechanism is a faecal shield or faecal parasol, which it uses as a weapon if threatened.
3/
Source of video in tweet 1 sony_Thokchom
Source of video in tweet 2 cutt.ly/3b4Shno

Even more bizarre if there is multiple larvae they form a pyramid with shields facing outwards and of mum is still around she places herself on top Like this cutt.ly/ab4Sk4R
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30 Mar
Reindeer Cyclones are a real thing... a swirling mass of threatened reindeer stampeding in a circle making it impossible to target an individual.. here the fawns are in the middle

This herd is on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, in the Arctic Circle
The video was originally posted on the Facebook page of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Peter the Great, aka Kunstkámera, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The video is worth watching to the end also here’s some reading cutt.ly/px5zQYq
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