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💙 Nature’s Ink Drop
The Butterfly Pea, glistening with raindrops — a natural artist painting calm in blue. 🌧️✨
🌱 Fun fact: Its petals make blue tea that turns purple with lemon juice! 🍋💫
#ButterflyPea #ClitoriaTernatea #BlueNature #MacroPhotography #NatureMacro #RaindropBeauty #Veinbug #StayCurious
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#owlboss #tawnyowl #babyraptor #bornwild #wildandfearless #blueeyesdontlie #wildlifephotography #canonphotography #birdsofinstagram #naturelovers #wildvibes #bluenature #bossbaby #dontmesswithme #wildlifemoments #birdboss @natgeo
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The Grand Tetons, Wyoming. I'm just finishing up my travel assignment in Jackson. Next, it looks like I'll be spending the summer in Bismarck, ND. Working on the road. #RPSGT-TRAVELER #GrandTetons #Wyoming #homesick #bluetravel #mountain #Bluenature #travelsky
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The #bluenature series will now be on break but will likely come back next month! I have ideas for different themes, so stay tuned :)
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Close-up of a North Island kōkako (Callaeas wilsoni), showing the bird’s side profile including the head, neck and upper body. The bird has a vivid blue wattle patch under its shiny, short black beak. It has a black mask (stripe of black feathers running from one eye to the other), with the rest of the body dark-grey in colour.
Day 7 of #bluenature, the North Island kōkako (Callaeas wilsoni).
This bird gave the blue pinkgill (see Day 4) its Māori name, werewere-kōkako, because of its blue wattle (loose skin hanging from the neck). It is otherwise black/grey and sometimes called the “blue-wattled crow”.
📷 Matt Binns
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Microscope image of Cylindrospermum, a filamentous genus of cyanobacteria. Multiple blue-green bacteria fill up the image, some overlapping. Each bacterium is a thread-like strand of cells that did not separate after cell division, some longer than others.
Day 6 of #bluenature, cyanobacteria 🦠
A phylum with 6000+ species, their colour comes from pigments like phycocyanin (blue) and chlorophyll (green). They’re the first organisms known to produce O2, contributing to the Great Oxygenation Event and the oxygen-rich atmosphere today!
📷 Willem van Aken
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The underside of a blue sea dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) floating in water. There are two prominent dark blue streaks running down its length, from its head to its tail. It has six appendages, three on each side of its body, each branching out into rayed and finger-like cerata (horn-shaped structures of nudibranches).
Day 5 of #bluenature, the blue dragon 🌊🐉
This mythlike creature (Glaucus atlanticus) has a blue underbelly and a silver-grey back. But they swim upside-down, so the blue side faces up. This is an example of countershading, making them harder to spot by predators above and below!
📷 Sylke Rohrlach
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A single blue pinkgill mushroom (skyblue mushroom, Entoloma hochstetteri) on a forest floor covered with moss. The entire fruiting body is bright sky-blue. The photo was taken at an angle to show the blue gills under the fungi cap.
Calling #fungifriends for day 4 of #bluenature, the blue pinkgill!
The skyblue mushroom (Entoloma hochstetteri) is the first of the series so far to be blue due to pigmentation by azulene. It’s also the only mushroom to be featured on money - New Zealand’s $50 note!
📷 Mary Smiley (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Close-up of nine blue forget-me-not flowers in a bundle. Each flower has five small petals with a yellow and white centre.
Day 3 of #bluenature, forget-me-nots!
There are ~60 species of Myosotis, a name that comes from Greek for “mouse’s ear”. Most are blue, but some are pink! 🌸 They’re also called scorpion grasses for the way they arrange in a spiral, like the curve of a scorpion tail 🦂
📷 hedera.baltica (Flickr)
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Liking this #bluenature track from @longnecked.bsky.social - recalling my tour of the @umaine.bsky.social Center for Cooperative #Aquaculture Research, when Stephen Eddy introduced me to the lumpfish. umaine.edu/cooperative-...
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Side view of a blue lumpfish placed on a plastic container.
Day 2 of #bluenature, the adorable lumpfish (Cylcopterus lumpus)! 🐟
The only species of its genus, lumpfish are useful cleaner fish used in salmon fisheries to get rid of parasitic copepods. Only juveniles appear blue due to biofluorescence — adults and babies look green!
📷 Reidun Marie Bjelland
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Close-up for a blue Morpho butterfly against a stony grey background. Taken in Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. The butterfly’s body is dark blue, the wing span double its body length. Wings are mostly iridescent and shiny blue but with a black outer margin lined with small white specks.
Day 1 of #bluenature, the icon of #bluesky 🦋
Morpho is a genus of butterflies found mostly in South/Central America and Mexico. Their blue colour comes not from pigmentation, but iridescence caused by the structure of their microscopic scales!
📷 credit: TexasEagle (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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Should I start a #bluenature challenge where I post something blue from nature every day? 🦋🏞️
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Everyday is #OceanDay for the Communications INC Team on the ground at #COP16Colombia, but I'm looking forward to more ocean action on Sunday 27th October!
🎦 Watch #OceanDay Live: youtube.com/watch?v=ORvk...
🌊🖐️ #NatureIsAlsoBlue #BlueNature #COP16 #ForTheOcean
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#BlueNature #Blue #Blues 💙🎶💙
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