How well do you know your insect wings? See if you can figure out what kind of insects have the wings below.
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Aren’t insect wings fascinating?
If you chose, let us know your answers in the comments.
Month: January 2014 (Page 2 of 6)
Our seeds this week are actually from a plant that is related to last week’s plant.
The seeds don’t look much alike, however.
This week mystery seeds are speckled and teardrop shaped, rather than round and brown like last week’s.
Today’s seeds were hard to retrieve because they drop from the plant as soon as they mature. In fact, the ones in these photographs might not be fully ripe.
Perhaps seeing the “seed holders” from the plant will help?
Do you recognize what plant these seeds are from? If you choose to, please leave a comment with your ideas.
New mystery seeds and Seed of the Week answers are posted on Tuesdays.
Edit:Â The answer is now posted.
Our round mystery seeds from last week were from the common or garden sage, Salvia officinalis (The hint meant someone who is “wise” is a sage.)
Perhaps you can recognize the seeds better from this public domain photograph from Wikimedia.
Garden sage is a perennial herb, originally from the Mediterranean region.
The leaves of the most common variety are gray-green, but some may be variegated with cream or purplish areas.
The leaves are soft and look bumpy.
The botanical term for the bumpiness is rugose, and it is due to the plants veins forming a deeply-indented net.
This public domain illustration from Wikimedia shows the tubular flowers. The flowers vary in color from light pink to blue to purple, depending on the variety.
Sage is used in cooking, particularly at Thanksgiving.
Do you have a favorite recipe that uses sage?
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.