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| The Living WorldEukaryotes (basically organisms whose cells contain complex structures). This includes pretty much all flora and fauna we would recognise on a daily basis.
Ordered more or less into categories of Kingdom >> Class >> Family with albums for each Genus. |
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|  | | | | InsectsVarious insect images, some shot "live", some are "stacked" dead specimens. Check out this page for info on macro equipment and techniques: www.tirpor.com/information/macro_top.htm
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| | | | As there over a million different insect species known to science, and possibly another 10-20 million yet to be described, I will not be in the slightest bit offended if anyone wants to offer alternative identifications to those shown here. |
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| | | | | |  | DipteraTrue flies - robber flies, mosquitoes & midges, blow-flies, etc |
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| | | | | |  | HomopteraCicadas, Planthoppers, Aphids and Scale Insects |
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| | | |  | AvianLike it says - birds .... |
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| | | Flowering plantsRoughly split into major geographical regions (if wild) or cultivated |
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| | | FungiDistinct from plants in that fungal cells have cell walls that contain chitin, unlike the cell walls of plants, which contain cellulose. Chitin is also present in the exoskeletons of arthropods such as crustaceans (e.g. crabs, lobsters and shrimps) and insects. |
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| | | | | Fungi: BasidiomycotaBasidiomycota include mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, other polypores, jelly fungi, boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts, mirror yeasts, and the human pathogenic yeast, Cryptococcus. Basically, Basidiomycota are filamentous fungi composed of hyphae (except for those forming yeasts), and reproducing sexually via the formation of specialized club-shaped end cells called basidia (or so says Wikipedia)
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| | | | | |  | AmanitaceaeFamily containing several species valued for flavour and edibility, but also accounts for over half the cases of mushroom poisoning. |
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| | | | | |  | CoprinaceaeInk caps. Produce fruiting bodies that dissolve into ink-like ooze when the spores are mature via self digestion. This family has now been reclassified into the larger Psathyrellaceae |
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| | | | | |  | MeruliaceaeSaprotrophic wood rotters from the Polyporales order |
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| Earth, sea and skyScenic images of no particular geographical signficance, but still grouped geographically for convenience |
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| Travel / RegionalGeneral images of scenery, people, the world around us, etc grouped geographically |
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| |  | Bhutan 1992These albums are more or less grouped by geographical area along the trek route I followed in Central Bhutan up Paro Valley, past Lingshi and then descending past Paro and finally out along the Mo Chu Gorge and it's wonderful leeches. |
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| |  | Misc travelVarious single albums including Ecuador, Jordan, ... |
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Aisle Couverte, Isle Renote307 viewsNeolithic covered passageway. IR image
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Sarcophaga carnaria313 viewsFlesh Fly, ~4x magnification
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Myathropa florea 273 viewsLateral view
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Chrysophora chrysochlora442 views
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