Nature Close Ups Flowers and Dragonflies

Dragonflies

One of Nature’s most intriguing and fascinating insects, and the subject of mankind’s most sublime and ridiculous myths and mythologies, the dragonfly darts around going about its business as usual, blissfully unaware and oblivious to the interest it has generated in us.More....

 Waterlillies

These waterlilies hold their blooms up well above the water. They tend to be very free flowering.

The only Blue and Purple flowering waterlillies are tropicals, but those are not the only colours tropical waterlilies are available in as there are also pink, white and yellow flowering tropicals more....

Flowers Reproduction

Flowers are the reproductive structures of plants. Most flowers are hermaphrodite, this means that they have both male and female parts. The male parts are called stamens and it is in the anthers of the stamens that the pollen is made. The female parts of the flower are called carpels and it is in the carpels that the eggs (ovules) are made.More....

 

Australian Flowers

Australia is home to flowering plants from many families, and the major ones are listed here.More...

Pollination Syndrome

However, flowers come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and so do insects. So how do different flowers attract the right insect for the job? The answer is that flowers vary their features to appeal to their target visitors. When flowers have adapted to attract certain pollinators, they are said to have developed ‘pollination syndromes’. Let’s take at look at them here.

Butterflies

All About Butterflies is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about butterflies. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic, and then to progress to much more advanced information as desired, simply by clicking on links more.....