potato 2 day growth comparison. I’m thinking about cutting the slips off this one and rooting them. I don’t intend to grow more potatoes but this thing is getting sooo big. I gotta do something about it!!
I know there's a niche in ecology for organisms that climb on other organisms and eat their parasites. Are there any examples in nature of creatures mimicking other more beneficial organisms?
There’s probably more examples than we know of but oddly the only one I’ve ever heard of are the false cleaner wrasses! Real cleaner wrasses perform a “dance” that “advertises” to fish of countless other species that they’ll eat their parasites, so other fish will respond to the dance by hovering in place and spreading their fins to be cleaned up.
The false cleaner wrasse mimics the coloration, shape, and dance of the real thing but then eats chunks of actual fin. It also has a silly face that opens up into demon fangs:
NIGHT&DAY dress by C.F. Worth 1858 - A fancy dress costume made of blue and yellow silk. The silk velvet bodice is boned and lined with cream silk. The multilayered skirt has decorative elements such as butterflies, bats, flowers, a stuffed bird and a padded silver moon crescent, all attached onto the skirt and further trimmed with beads and sequins. This fancy dress costume includes the original silk slippers, one for Night, one for Day, and a feather fan, also split into night and Day.
