Come to the Beautiful Flower Garden

Inspiration and Insecticide from the Flower Garden.

—In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust P because chrysanthemums bloom well into the autumn and come in an array of colors and varieties, these hardy flowers have inspired poets, writers, and artists for millennia. French Impressionist artist Claude Monet celebrated this flower in a series of four still-life paintings in 1897, including Chrysanthemum, 1897, selected for this mo...

Most ornamental plants on sale in garden centres are unattractive to flower-visiting insects

BACKGROUND Gardeners and park managers seeking to support biodiversity in urban areas often plant ornamentals attractive to flower-visiting insects. There is a huge diversity of garden plant varieties, and some recommendations are available as to which are attractive to insects. However, these are largely not based on rigorous empirical data. An important factor in consumer choice is the range ...

Back to the future: The history of acroporid corals at the Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico, USA

Origin choice and petal loss in the flower garden of spiral wave tip trajectories.

Rotating spiral waves have been observed in numerous biological and physical systems. These spiral waves can be stationary, meander, or even degenerate into multiple unstable rotating waves. The spatiotemporal behavior of spiral waves has been extensively quantified by tracking spiral wave tip trajectories. However, the precise methodology of identifying the spiral wave tip and its influence on...

Spam Is Beautiful * Dawid Weiss 1 Where Does My Spam Come From? 2 Feed Your Spam to Python

I remember the time when I had no problem with spam. There simply was no spam at a bit of history that time. It was truly wonderful. Unfortunately, these happy times didn’t last too long—slowly but inevitably spammers got me. I now receive about 30–40 unwanted junk e-mails a day. And that’s, according to some individuals, not too many. Well, tell you what: when I reach the limit of, let’s say. ...