GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Vermetid worm / Worm snail (Dendropoma maxima). Vermetid gastropods are unusual snails in that they secrete the calcareous tube in which they live. This one has a operculum. They feed by trapping part...
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Tim Laman / Salt crystals on the surface of a (Avecinnia sp) mangrove leaf. This mangrove species can secrete salt through special glands on the leaf surface. One adaptation that allows it to live in salt water....
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Tim Laman / Salt crystals on the surface of a (Avecinnia sp) mangrove leaf. This mangrove species can secrete salt through special glands on the leaf surface. One adaptation that allows it to live in salt water....
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Nigel Cattlin / Cuckoo spit from Green / Meadow froghopper, (Philaneus spumarius) on lavender stems, Berkshire, June
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Nigel Cattlin / Cytospora canker (Cytospora leucostoma) canker disease exudation from a peach tree trunk, USA, September
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Ingo Arndt / Honey bee (Apis mellifera), feeding on honeydew from aphids on a fir tree which they secrete as they feed on plant sap. Honey bees process it into a dark and strong 'forest honey', Germany.
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Ingo Arndt / Honey bee (Apis mellifera), feeding on honeydew from aphids on a fir tree which they secrete as they feed on plant sap. Honey bees process it into a dark and strong 'forest honey', Germany.