Friday 30 October 2015
The Sunflower Head Harvest
The
Sunflower Harvest
There
is beauty in decay.
The
sunflower's yellow cartwheel
Of
summer is only a memory,
The
heads bow now with seed,
Arching
to scatter before
The
harvesters' guillotine ends them.
The
heads are sculptural,
A
maze of chambers of precious
Progeny;
brown, protective,
Muted
in design, but generous.
Wednesday 21 October 2015
A Gynandromorph Butterfly (exactly half male and half female)
The full name of this butterfly is a Papilionidae Lowii
- an Asian Swallowtail. It has been 'born' exactly half male
and half female ( a gynandromorph). The female half
is the more colourful half on the right hand side and
although it is difficult to see even the body is half black
(male) and half yellow-ish.This very rare occurrence took
place at Butterfly World, St Albans.
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