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A deadly battle of the spider and the wasp
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A chance enconuter. A ferocious clash. A spider and a wasp fighting for their very lives. It’s not often we get the opportunity to see a vicious death battle in the insect world, but that’s exactly what we have for you here.
The spider pictured here was innocently hanging out on the side of a wall when a wasp spotted it and approached. The wasp dove for the spider and attacked it, whereupon both animals dropped to the floor.
Art topiary
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Topiary is the horticultural practice of training live perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, perhaps geometric or fanciful; the term also refers to plants which have been shaped in this way. As an art form it is a type of living sculpture.
Pillars: Reserve Near Krasnoyarsk
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State natural reserve "Pillars" is located in north-western spurs of Eastern Sayan bordering the Central Siberian Plateau. The natural boundaries of protected areas is the right tributary of the Yenisei River. The height of the rocks reaches 60-90 m. The author posted photos of his trip to this reserve. Look and admire…
A Spider From Madagascar (Caerostris darwini)
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Darwin’s bark spider (Caerostris darwini) is an orb-weaver spider that produces one of the largest known orb webs, web size ranged from 900–28,000 cm2, with anchor lines spanning up to 25 metres (82 ft). The spider was discovered in Madagascar in the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park in 2009. The species was named in honour of the naturalist Charles Darwin, with the description being prepared precisely 150 years after the publication of The Origin of Species, on 24 November 2009.
Marine cappuccino
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Phenomenon in the form of well shaken up sea foam have nicknamed coastal cappuccino. This natural phenomenon is very rare.
These pictures were taken on the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. According to scientists, marine cappuccino is formed as a result of large-scale mixing of algae, sea foam, strong winds and the various wastes.
10 tallest trees on the earth
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This is a list of 10 largest trees in the world. The exact locations of 10 tallest trees in the world are secrets, so the pictures available in this post are only illustrations. The trees are not guarded 24/7 and only sealed the information what keep the trees grow higher.
10. Mendocino – 112.20 m (368.1 ft)
Species: Sequoia sempervirens
Location: Montgomery Woods, California, USA
Diameter: 4,19 m (13,7 ft)
Between December 1996 and August 2000, the tallest tree in Montgomery Woods, named the Mendocino Tree, was the world’s tallest known tree. It was displaced by the discovery of a number of taller trees in Humboldt Redwoods State Park and later Redwood National Park in Humboldt County. The tree is one of dozens of similar height in the grove, and was never specifically marked in order to protect the tree. Earlier well-publicized candidates for the world’s tallest tree suffered damage from stresses resulting from crowds of tourists.
