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Flying bat around eleven in the morning, how is that possible?
Michiel van Engelen sent me a video, but unfortunately we cannot place it at Omroep Brabant – because of the many advertisements that can be seen in such a video -. This is being worked hard on this. We had hoped that it would work for the summer, but that did not work. Videos, which in YouTube version, See this video Erik Korstenwe can come to me. Yet I would like to answer Michel van Engelen’s question.
In the Michiel video you see a flying bat during the day in the outskirts of the Trippelenberg near Breda. Michiel’s question is: is this possible? During the day you can indeed perceive flying bats, even in warm winter periods. There are various reasons for this: the bat can be weakened or sick. But also with great heat, bats can look for cooling during the day and stay on outside walls or in buildings, see the photo above. In summer periods, such as on June 29, something else is going on. The maternity period is still in full swing, which runs from mid -May to the end of July and so bats can be active more often during the day to feed their young.
Is this a pollen on the tree or something else?
Eric van der Meer saw a mushroom on a tree trunk during a walk in the woods. He asked himself if it is a pollen and what the name of that mushroom is. I don’t think it’s a pollen, but the organism is striking. It is an old silver tree cushion. Silver tree cushions are not fungi or fungi, but myxomycetes, which we also call slime mushrooms. Which is very confusing. Silver tree cushions belong to the realm of the Mycetozoa and not to the realm of Fungi (also called Myceteae) or fungi or fungi.
Silver tree cushions are pillow -shaped myxomycetes. Their membrane has a silver shine in the beginning, hence the name Zilverenboom cushion. They can become a maximum of ten centimeters in size. The contents of the silver tree cushion is silver -white first, but later becomes chocolate brown. When that time has arrived, the membrane will tear open, after which the traces spread with the help of rain and wind. The latter therefore takes place by drifting. Silver tree cushions, as indicated above, fall under the empire of the slime mushrooms. The word ‘fungus’ in the word slime fungi makes everything very confusing. Also, scientists are not completely out yet. Slime mushrooms or myxomycetes are more like Amoebes and the myxomycetes with a plasmodium (we call single -celled) can even move through by means of sham feet.
Spotted on the Strabrechtse Heide
Anthony Verspaget also sent me a video. The same applies to this as with Michiel van Engelen: unfortunately no screening either. His question is: can you see a path with young in my video? The answer is no. In the film there is no young path on top of the female, but a male path on her back. You see this very often, even during the spring migration. Male madden, who are smaller, already climb on the females when they go on their way to the pre -planting coil. We call this a mushroom. The males are stuck with their front legs under the armpits with the females and only let go when the female has dropped her eggs. The fertilization of the eggs then takes place in the pool or lake. In fact, ordinary toads also have no copulation. The mating is rather a form of external fertilization. Male mushrooms immediately spray their sperm over the eggs released by the females in cords. Such a female of the normal path can be good for as many as five thousand eggs!
What is the name of this butterfly?
Els Peters saw a beautiful butterfly in a grove near the Loonse and Drunense Duinen. She would like to know what the name is. On the photo you see an orange butterfly. This butterfly is quite common in our country. It is a chopped aurelia. Incidentally, we now see this butterfly in Brabant more and more, but in the 1980s this species only appeared in the West and North. Since that time, the species has started to expand steadily. Now you see this butterfly everywhere in our country, so also in our beautiful Brabant.
Chopped aurelias overwinter as an adult butterfly in fallen leaves, branch forests or at the bottom of tree roots. Always close to the ground. Sometimes you also come across them in a hollow tree. The chopped Aurelia is one of the aurelias or shoelappers and that also includes the daily pauwoog. That is also a winterer.
The family name Shoelappersvlinders is based on the bottom of the wings of these butterflies. With all these butterflies, the bottom is dark with dark spots. This was reminiscent of the time when the shoelappers kicked worn shoes with pieces of leather. They could hardly never find the color of that worn shoe. The bottom of the wings of these butterflies look just like the patched shoes.
Animal found in the garage
Sylvia Kools found a strange animal in her garage. She sent me a photo. I think this is a step in the life of a saber -spider roam that has just come out of her egg. You can see the saber very well. That saber is not a dangerous stab weapon, but a handy laying tube, see the photo below of Jeroen Siebers.
Just like all other grasshoppers, saber -spinkers have an incomplete seal or metamorphosis. This is a common change in which a number of organisms, such as locusts and dragonflies, indirectly, become sexually mature in ‘steps’. This is completely different from a full metamorphosis (metamorphosis) where the transition takes place in different steps, so egg – larva – pop – image/adult animal. The animal in the photo will then get legs, but no wings yet. They only come later. Sabysprinkhaans are among the larger types of crickets and grasshoppers, or the straightforward. Many straightforward are herbivores, but there are also species that eat animal material. Sabysprinkhaans have large wings, a green or brown color and the size of these animals varies between one and a half to 7.5 centimeters. They owe their name to the fact that the females have a huge laying tube that looks a bit like a saber.
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Ordinary path – The Wildpad
The normal path or brown path is an amphibian from the family of the real toads. The common path has the largest distribution area of all amphibians in Europe. This is one of the most famous frogs in Europe next to the brown frog and the tree frog. The normal path is – except for Ireland and Iceland – in all European countries, including Belgium and the Netherlands. Because the species is general in contrast to many other amphibians, the ordinary path is not protected by legislation in large parts of the distribution area.
In recent years, however, we have seen that the normal path is struggling. The number of toads has been halved in the Netherlands since 2008, which is worrying. This is partly because they are driven to death because of climate change and the loss of habitat.