#annulary

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[platycryptus]

an american giant millipede (a Narceus species in the americanus/annularis complex) traversing a lichen-covered boulder on a mountaintop (Massachusetts, 8/7/23)

Sometimes referred to as “iron worms”, these large millipedes are often locally abundant in mature forests and mountainous areas in the northeastern US. They spend most of their time hidden in decayed logs and leaf litter but regularly emerge to wander in the open, climbing rocks and trees to graze on lichen. Protected by toxins that deter most predators, they do so even in broad daylight, especially during wet or cloudy weather.

[snototter]

A ringed wall gecko (Tarentola annularis), native to Africa, found in Lee County, Florida, USA

by Noah Mueller

[neechiegeckos]

Shifty Sam, my beautiful male White Spotted Wall Gecko

[herpsandbirds]

Annulated Gecko (Gonatodes annularis), family Sphaerodactylidae, French Guiana

photograph by Vincent Prémel

[reasonsforhope]

"Mexico’s government recently announced the creation of 20 new protected areas across 12 states and two coastal areas in the country, covering roughly 2.3 million hectares (5.7 million acres). This follows a series of budget cuts to the nation’s environmental agencies.

Officials introduced four new national parks, four “flora and fauna protection areas,” seven sanctuaries, two biosphere reserves and three “natural resources protection areas” under the protection of the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (CONANP).

“This is a commendable step toward biodiversity conservation and environmental protection,” said Gina Chacón, director of the Wildland Network’s public policy program in Mexico. She told Mongabay these new areas will help preserve the country’s rich ecosystems, foster sustainable practices and protect a broad range of important species and habitats. Though some environmental and Indigenous groups are wary the budget cuts could hinder efforts to conserve these areas.

The newly protected areas will preserve habitat and ecologically important marine areas for various species, including whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), Mexican prairie dogs (Cynomys mexicanus) and jaguars (Panthera onca). They will also help safeguard ecologically important coral reefs and areas of cultural significance to Indigenous communities.

Bajos del Norte, a new national park in the Gulf of Mexico, is the largest new protected area, covering 1,304,114 hectares (3,222,535 acres), almost nine times the size of Mexico City. The area is important to the more than 3,000 families that belong to fishing communities on the Yucatán coast. It is also one of the main grouper fish (Epinephelinae) reproduction sites in the Gulf of Mexico and will safeguard threatened species, such as the rocky star coral (Orbicella annularis) and the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata).

Joaquín Núñez Medrano, the secretary of the UEFAHG or Union of Forestry and Agricultural Ejidos Hermenegildo Galeana A.C. (Unión de Ejidos Forestales y Agropecuarios Hermenegildo Galeana), lives in an ejido — a type of communally owned land used for agriculture and forestry purposes — called Cordòn Grande in Sierra Grande of Guerrero, along the Pacific Coast. For more than 10 years, Medrano’s community has monitored species such as the jaguar and sustainably managed the ejido’s natural resources, without government assistance.

But now, the ejido has been designated a protected area in this latest round of decrees, as it falls inside part of the new Sierra Tecuani reserve. “The goal is to strengthen what we have already been doing but with support to do it much better,” he told Mongabay.

The second- and third-largest newly protected areas are Sierra Tecuani, a 348,140-hectare (860,272-acre) biosphere reserve threatened by illegal logging, forest fires and land use changes, and the Semidesierto Zacatecas Flora and Fauna Protection Area, which is important for the recovery of the Mexican prairie dog.

The state of Oaxaca is where the government created the most new protected areas, numbering three: the 90-hectare (222-acre) Playa Morro Ayuta Sanctuary, the 56-hectare (138-acre) Barra de la Cruz-Playa Grande Sanctuary and the 261-hectare (645-acre) Playa Cahuitán Sanctuary. Other protected areas were created in the states of Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Campeche, Nayarit, Zacatecas, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Jalisco, Chihuahua, Guerrero and the State of Mexico...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has protected more areas than any previous administration, with a total of 43 new areas across 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres). But Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), which works to safeguard the environment, has become severely cash-strapped throughout his six-year term.

SEMARNAT is one of many sectors in Mexico undergoing funding cuts. In recent years, Obrador’s government has implemented a series of strict austerity measures to free up more money for other areas like pensions and wages, boosting the leader’s popularity among citizens, particularly the working-class. Judicial workers, health services and academia have also had their budgets slashed in 2024...

Juan Bezaury-Creel, the director of the organization Fundación BD BioDiversidad Mexicana, said a protected area is better than no protected area because, once a decree is formalized, the government has a duty to protect it. However, this puts “huge pressure on existing personnel because they have to take care of more surface area with less resources,” he told Mongabay.

“The personnel from CONANP are heroic,” he said. “They are putting their lives on the line many times with little budget and little help.”"

-via Mongabay, January 25, 2024

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54 common fish of texas, part 20: sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus), white crappie (Pomoxis annularis)

[onenicebugperday]

@booksabandoned submitted: Can I offer you a nice millipede in this trying time? I saw this little dude while hiking around [removed] (please remove). Seek thinks it’s in the genus Narceus but refuses to be more specific.

What a long angel! I think for the sake of this blog we can call them an American giant millipede, but there is some debate about whether some Narceus fellas are the same species or different species, so technically we can say they’re in the Narceus americanus/annularis complex.

[linddzz]

Boulder brain coral (Colpophyllia natans)

Sea Plume gorgonian (Pseudopterogorgia sp) ((I think it's americanus but gorgonians are a pain for ID))

Grooved brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis)

Mustard hill coral (Porites astreoides)

Boulder star coral (Orbicella annularis)

-Bonus Background Corals Bc I wanna See How Much I Can ID For Funsies-

Great star coral (Montastrea cavernosa)

Smooth Flower Coral (Eusmilia fastigiata)

Branching fire coral (Millepora alcicornis)

[alcnfr]

(Ringed...) Paper Wasp (Polistes (annularis)) exploring the Insect house on this warm morning...

[dailymarinefish]

day 83, 16/04/24 - fish of the day is the blue ringed angelfish (Pomacanthus annularis)

[colorsoutofearth]

Boulder star coral (Montastrea annularis)

Photo by Alex Mustard

[thatnostalgiccarp]

Critter fact #18:

The Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) is distinguished from the similar White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis) by the presence of 7-8 dorsal sspines (instead of 5-6) and its irregular patterning (instead of vertical bars). The dorsal spines are usually the most reliable way to distinguish the two species from each other.

[brokenthimbles]

Everything was perfect. The flowers had been delivered and were arranged nicely throughout their shared home; orange and yellow and white blossoms leading the way from the front door through the hallway and into the study, where, how else could it be, an old edition of Herodotus was placed on the small oak table in front of the sofa. It had taken him a while to hunt that edition down, searching every single bookstore and antique store in London and even beyond the city walls. What mattered more, however, was the small, velvet blue casket on top of the book. Inside it was a ring. Silver, with a small, nearly transparent, diamond. The ring was petite, but fit Wendy’s finger perfectly - it had to, since Gareth had measured her annulary thoroughly in the middle of the night months ago, when Wendy had been fast asleep next to him in bed after a particularly tiring day at the hospital. All those months he had been able to remain absolutely silent about his little project - the perks of being the Head of MI6. Secrets were an easy thing to keep for him, no matter how hard his heart was beating every time he even just thought about tonight.

Everything was perfect - except that, and here he momentarily hated his job, he was held up at Whitehall. Just when he had put on his coat and grabbed his briefcase ready to be home in time for once and before Wendy, Moneypenny had entered his office, telling him about an important matter that had to be dealt with immediately. With an annoyed glance at his watch, Gareth had still been forced to stay and pay his duty to his country.

Meanwhile, everything waited at home: the flowers, the book, the ring. Just the question he had wanted to ask Wendy upon her seeing the ring had to wait a little longer, it seemed.

Wendy had absentmindedly entered the flat, like it had been every other night. Kicking off her shoes before turning to lock the door and turn the light on, but what normally would just be her making her way to the fridge to find food ended up her frozen as she saw the hues of orange and white blossoms lining the ground.

  “G?” she called out softly, to no answer. Dropping her belongings on the floor next to the door she slowly made her way following the trail of flowers. The scent from them calming her as she felt her heart racing, and the noises of anything but that accelerating lub-dub in her chest. What she thought she’d find was Gareth actually home for a change, panic rising as she tried to think why there had been flowers. Was it her birthday? No. His? No. Their anniversary (not that they’d ever celebrated such things before), but what she found was the study…. Empty. She let out small sigh of disappointment before she noticed it. The small oak table had something atop it…. A book, and a jewelry box.

  Her heart stopped mid beat, her breath caught in her chest as she made her way towards it. At first she held the velvet box in her hand before she noticed what looked like a print of Herodotus that must have been over a hundred years old. Her fingers delicately tracing its cover and pages. It was a strange thing, Wendy hadn’t even given two thoughts to the jewelry box thinking it might be a necklace, or some small token but what it was she now knew without question. This book, this tome, was the first thing they connected on. The ancient histories, and it became part of their history. Something they read to one another, or brought them back to each other time and time again. Wendy knew in that moment what she’d find when she opened that little velvet box……. A ring.

Part if her wanted to wait….. but she couldn’t. Opening the box, the petite stone and band glowing as if magic. Doing what any girl would do she placed is on her annularly but once it was there? She couldn’t remove it. It felt strange, and yet as if it were a part of her very being. Who knows how long she stared at it, before settling into the sofa. The newest edition to their Herodotus collection safely back on its pedestal, the book she had been reading now in her lap but she found herself constantly distracted from its pages with the light catching on the ring she now wore. She’d maybe read the same sentence 20 times before she dissolved into giggles.

Her Gareth……. Wanted to marry her, officially….. and by God she wanted to marry him. 

[transsexual-homunculus]

hmm i'm not entirely sure that gecko is properly identified, it doesn't really look like any of the examples of Tarentola annularis i can find, except the shape of the head is pretty similar, but. idk. it almost looks like it could be a hybrid Tarentola x Hemidactylus but i didn't find any examples of that with a quick search so idek

[confinesofmy]

vibrating out of my skin thinking about how if i can just make it out of january then it will be february which is pollinator month here. 🙂 i'm about to see so many wasps. polistes annularis how i've missed you.