Y'all look like you could use not one, not two, but THREE BEARS in your timeline on this fine Friday.
Make your weekend amazing.
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
"Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos ssp.)" by Gregory 'Slobirdr' Smith is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nope. I've been on this f'in bus ride when we were in Alaska. The ride back to Wonder Lake starts off nice and easy on a wide paved road, but 12 miles into the park that shit changes, and quickly. Pretty soon there's nothing visible out the window but sheer nothingness. No curbs, no guard rails, no nothing.
Leaf mines from a larva of the aspen leafminer moth, Phyllocnistis populiella, on a quaking aspen, Populus tremuloides, in Denali National Park in Alaska. Aspen leafminer larvae feed on the epidermal tissue of plant leaves; while they don’t eat photosynthetic material, they indirectly disrupt photosynthesis by destroying guard cells around leaf stomata. Guard cells control when stomata are opened or closed, so they can end up stuck in one position and either prevent carbon dioxide uptake or allow excess water loss. Leaves affected by aspen leafminers often die. Aspen leafminers tend to experience population increase during warm, dry years, so while they’re native to Alaska, researchers are keeping an eye on them and their impact as climate change warms up the region.