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Commelina forskaolii, sometimes known as rat's ear, is an herbaceous plant in the dayflower family native to much of Africa, Arabia, and India. It has also been introduced to Florida in the United States. It is considered a common species in most of its range. It can be easily recognized by its bright blue flowers with winged stamen filaments.
Like other hover flies, they are common visitors to flowers, [11] especially in late summer and autumn, and can be significant pollinators. They often feed on the flowers of carrot and fennel. Under extremely rare conditions, there have been documented cases of human intestinal myiasis of the rat-tailed maggot (larva of Eristalis tenax).
Vulpia myuros, the annual fescue, [1] or rat's-tail fescue, [2] is an annual flowering plant in grass family Poaceae. It was probably originally native to Eurasia, but it can now be found nearly worldwide as a naturalized species. In the United Kingdom it forms dense, even swards of fine, hair-like stems in recently disturbed habitats.
Adult bush rats are smaller than the Australian swamp rat (Rattus lutreolus) and in addition, the bush rat's foot pads are a pink colour, whereas the swamp rat's foot pads are dark brown. [5] The hair at the foot is short and pale in colour, subspecies Rattus fuscipes coracius is notably darker. [4] The feet are pentadactyl and all digits are ...
Stachytarpheta cayennensis is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family known by many English language common names, including blue snakeweed, Cayenne snakeweed, dark-blue snakeweed, bluetop, nettle-leaf porterweed, rattail, rough-leaf false vervain, [2] blue rat's tail, Brazilian tea, Cayenne vervain, false verbena, joee, nettleleaf velvetberry, [3] and Cayenne porterweed. [4]
The larvae are aquatic filter-feeders of the rat-tailed type. E. cryptarum has a wide distribution across central and Northern Europe and East to Siberia and Mongolia. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In England, it was once found in all southwestern counties as far east as the New Forest , but since the middle of the 20th century its range has contracted, for ...
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The bushy-tailed woodrat, or packrat (Neotoma cinerea) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Canada and the United States. [2] Its natural habitats are boreal forests, temperate forests, dry savanna, temperate shrubland, and temperate grassland.