Lmst

Gifts that keep on giving, twigs and branches and neighbors should eventually be chopped into short pieces to hopefully serve to make a sort of leaf-littered yard like a forest floor... In the meantime moving the pile every few months makes for some sort of feast.. the humus(!?) smelled nice, reminded me of _Dirt! The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth_...

#BackyardChickens #LeafLitter ? #SilkyChickens #烏骨鶏 #宮崎地鶏

#Nature creates the best #art.
I just look for the natural opportunities to frame/ #photograph what nature had already created to showcase to seeking eyes 💚😊💚

#Autumn #SilentSunday #leaves #foliage #lake #reflections #FallColours #November #WorldInMyEyes #nature #ferns #log #submerged #floating #Nanaimo #NorthCowichan #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #PhotoWalk #NatureArt #abstract #LeafLitter #debris #VisualArt #DisabledArtists #DisabledPhotographers

Overhead view of autumn leaves and a fern frond floating on water, alongside a dark wooden log and branch, with a cloudy reflection in the water.

Visible here is a #Julida #diplopode, a taxon with ca 750 species worldwide. #Diplopods are important decomposers of #deadwood or #leaflitter; their high food requirements and corresponding excrements make them important #humusproducers. Despite the name #millipedes, almost all diplopods have no more than 750 #legs. An exception is #Eumillipes #persephone (Siphonotidae) described by P. E.Mark et al.(2021),with 1,306 legs.
©#StefanFWirth 2025

Ref
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02447-0

#Photos
©S. F.Wirth

An undetermined larger member of Julida from nearby Sorrento (Italy), © Stefan F. Wirth, 2020-2025

Leaf Litter
"The piles of leaves that have formed actually serve to create winter homes for many different species of caterpillars and pupae where they spend the colder months safe from freezing temperatures and predators."
https://butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/what-hidden-treasures-are-in-your-leaf-litter

#Butterflies #Conservation #LeafLitter #WildLife #Nature #BioDiversity #Moths #SolarPunkSunday

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Relationship in response of #Decomposition to litter mixing between above- and belowground in a temperate typical steppe

#CarbonFractions | #FineRoots | #LeafLitter | #LitterMixture | #PhysicalAndChemicalTraits

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf178

Litter.
#photography #LeafLitter #Autumn #Fall

How does leaf litter decomposition change through the seasons in temperate streams & forests? Cereghetti & Altermatt tracked microbial and invertebrate decomposition across a full year, revealing how timing, temperature, litter quality & ecosystem type shape this key process!

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736356

#leaf #leafLitter #temperate #stream #forest #ecosystem #invertebrate

The #woodlouse #Oniscus #asellus (Oniscidae) is originally distributed in Western #Europe, but today one of the most common isopods in #CentralEurope, occuring e g. in dead wood or #leaflitter and is neozoon in North America. D. T. Bilton (2008), names two morphologically/ecologically different #subspecies, O. asellus asellus and O. asellus #occidentalis.

Reference

D. T. Bilton (2008):
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1994.tb01478.x

Photos
O. asellus, #Berlin © S. F. Wirth 2020, edit 2025

#NewSpecies!
New leaf-litter frog from #china just jumped in:

Leptobrachella xishuiensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B9AA6A3F-7332-5C69-AD91-BBDDD5B1EFDD
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.137392
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #LeptobrachellaXishuiensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #amphibia #frogs #leaflitter

【マイクラ】スポーンエッグが新登場！全81種がリニューアル！オオカミの性格が追加＆ヒツジの新色スポーン撤回など詳しく解説！【マインクラフト】SNAPSHOT 25W08A https://www.playing-games.com/533392/ #bush #HSstudio #LeafLitter #minecraft #wildflowers #ぶーぶー #マイクラ #マイクラ1.21.5 #マイクラ1.22 #マイクラアプデ #マイクラウシ #マイクラオオカミ #マイクラスポーンエッグ #マイクラパンダ #マイクラブタ #マイクラ落ち葉 #マインクラフト #マインクラフトスナップショット #まみむん #まみむんぶーぶー

【マイクラ】村の地図がついに実装！ヒツジの新色が追加！修繕司書の弱体化どうなった？バンドル・ラクダの仕様変更など詳しく解説！【マインクラフト】統合版ベータ1.21.70.23 https://www.playing-games.com/523954/ #【マイクラ】村の地図がついに実装！ヒツジの新色が追加！修繕司書の弱体化どうなった？バンドル・ラクダの仕様変更など詳しく解説！【マインクラフト】統合版ベータ1.21.70.23 #bush #cactusflower #firefly #HSstudio #LeafLitter #minecraft #wildflowers #ヒツジ亜種 #ぶーぶー #マイクラ #マイクラ1.21.5 #マイクラ1.22 #マイクラアプデ #マイクラウシ #マイクラニワトリ #マイクラヒツジ #マイクラブタ #マイクラホタル #マイクラ村の地図 #マイクラ落ち葉 #マインクラフト #マインクラフトスナップショット #まみむん #まみむんぶーぶー

【マイクラ】ニワトリの亜種が新登場！サボテンの花・枯れ草が追加！スポーン場所・見た目・仕様など詳しく解説！【マインクラフト】SNAPSHOT 25W06A https://www.playing-games.com/514154/ #bush #cactusflower #firefly #HSstudio #LeafLitter #minecraft #wildflowers #ぶーぶー #マイクラ #マイクラ1.21.5 #マイクラ1.22 #マイクラアプデ #マイクラウシ #マイクラニワトリ #マイクラブタ #マイクラホタル #マイクラ落ち葉 #マインクラフト #マインクラフトスナップショット #まみむん #まみむんぶーぶー

A spotted towhee scratches through the leaf litter looking for its next meal #bird #spottedtowhee #passerinebird #leaflitter #anonuevostatepark #santacruz #wildlifephotography

A bird with a rust-red belly, dark back and head with white spots. It has red eyes. It is deep in dry brown leaves. There is a spray dirt flying behind it as it scratches through the litter.

Dried #photo #leaves #leaflitter #nature #photography https://flic.kr/p/2pYDU69

#springtail #insects #leaflitter

Looking at dead leaves, found a springtail on the back. It was so small I was surprised my camera could focus!

#Leaflitter increases #biodiversity in yards, parks....#birds that forage on the ground have plenty to eat. My yard has no grass, is full of trees, leaves and plants that I do not cut back in winter. They all provide #habitat, texture, contrast and color. Use black oil sunflower and safflower at your feeders. High quality seed (Scarlett) w lots of nutrition. Enjoy winter, help feed the birds, other critters too fehttps://blog.mybirdbuddy.com/post/leave-leaves-alone-for-boosted-backyard-diversity

Lots of #fungi in the #woodland at #WWTCastleEspie today.

#nature #NaturePhotography #shotoniphone #mushroom #fungus #FungusAmongUs #FungusPhotography #forestfloor #LeafLitter #sign #wwt #comber #CountyDown #NorthernIreland #FungiFriday

Mushroom in leaf litter with signpost in the background

Floating leaf #photography #photo #leaf #floating #water #leaflitter #nature

https://flic.kr/p/2pcJBfp

Today in #Gardening . . .

Corner of lot with 3 m / 9 feet of wood line. Oaks. Maples. Great #LeafLitter - some early morning sun

Slowly adding #NativePlants
New #Tiarella cordifolia

#NewEnglandSpring

Forgot Alt-Text: Several plants in pots also coral bells green and red foliage planted under trees

A new look at decades of data from #MuseumCollections & #surveys of #LeafLitter #ants in #Florida #reveals a steady #decline in #NativeAnts , #simultaneous #increase in #nonNative ants—even in #protected natural areas of the state, researchers report.
#Reported in the journal Current #Biology , the findings point to a potential future devoid of native ants, the #researchers said.

https://www.labmanager.com/news/in-florida-study-non-native-leaf-litter-ants-are-replacing-native-ants-30091

#entomology #insects #biodiversity #AtRisk #ecology #environment

#leaflitter

Client Info