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Selective focus on tall grasses being eaten by a swarm of brown locust in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

a lizards climbs through a bush in search of food

Brightly colored carpenter bee systematically moves from wildflower to flower extracting the pollen during spring.

Physocarpus opulifolius

Bee sitting on black sage flower at the coastal area of Goleta near Santa Barbara, Southern California

Salt marsh dodder or goldthread,

A large robber fly resting on a dirt path in the sunlight

Close up dry and old cicada shell

Pale purple fragrant flowers of Scabiosa stellata on a meadow on a sunny spring day. A plant for use in homeopathy in the natural environment.

Acacia Shrub at Etosha National Park in Kunene Region, Namibia

Close up of flowering Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) branch, Joshua Tree National Park, California

Colorful Green & Brown Butterfly in Bright Sunlight in South Florida in the Fall of 2023

Accessing Joshua Tree National Park through the North Entrance Station near 29 Palms will quickly lead to the Contact Mine Trailhead, one of the first encounterable exhibits. Observable in the surrounding area is Hyptis Emoryi, commonly known as Desert Lavender. Grey green, hairy leaves, and purple flowers in profuse clumps are taxonomic indicators. It also grows taller than many of its desert constituents, occurring sparsely, but prominent in stature. Making its presence known among the preserves Mojevan Creosote Bush Scrub, as well as intermittent locations throughout the city of 29 Palms.

Engelmann Spruce Tree with cones, Picea engelmannii; Great Basin National Park, Nevada; Great Basin Desert; Pinaceae Family

$Well camouflaged on the floor of the Sonoran Desert is this pallid-winged grasshopper.\nPallid-wings are widespread in North and South America, especially in western desert and semi-desert areas. It's range extends from British Columbia in the north to Argentina in the south.\nIt's a short-horned grasshopper, which is another way of saying it is included in the family Acrididae.$

Plant life struggles in the dry arid climate of Southern California. Some plants will survive the oppressive heat while others are consumed.

An orange Ochlodes sp. butterfly rests on a branch.

This is a photograph taken on a mobile phone of the desert landscape in Curecanti National Recreation Area in Gunnison, Colorado during autumn of 2020.

The sooty-headed bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster) is a species of songbird in the Bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in south-eastern Asia.

a snake lives on the arid plains of Western Utah

In the field a small Spermacoce verticillata bush with flowers

wolf excrement

I am fascinated by what appears to be a sterile dead environment until I look closer and see tiny mosses, lichens and algae actually growing a stabilizing soil on undistrubed sand. I learned about this fragile cryptobiotic soil from rangers in the United States National Parks.

Crab Skeleton in Pantanal Wetlands, Brazil

Bushes between sand dunes in Sahara desert, Merzouga, Morocco.

Spent flowers of the Blue Puya (Puya berteroniana) in the Andes of central Chile near Santiago de Chile, a species in the Bromeliad family that flowers only once, with its spectacular flower spike, and then dies as shown in this image

White flowering axillaterminal determinate cymose head inflorescences of White Sage, Salvia Apiana, Lamiaceae, native perennial monoclinous deciduous shrub in the southwest San Gabriel Mountains, Transverse Ranges, Springtime.

Horizontal high angle photo of dry Winter shrubs with seed heads in snow and an old wooden fence post. New Mexico.

High angle view on the golden stubbles.

Some dry peanuts plants growing on a field, Madagascar

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