
Black-and-rufous elephant shrew, Rhynchocyon petersi (Wikipedia)

Black-and-rufous elephant shrew, Rhynchocyon petersi (Wikipedia)

St John’s Wort, Hypericum perforatum (image Wikipedia)

Urtica dioica by the German botanist Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840-1925)

The Grauniad says that this is an alpine swift, Tachymarptis melba, but it looks like a common swift, Apus apus, to me (Photograph: Buiten-Beeld/Alamy via Grauniad)
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An ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum sp.) with a harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis, sitting at its center
Peri-Performative Post-Scriptum…
The title of this incendiary intervention refers to
1) The Fibonacci sequence present in the beautiful interlocking curves at the heart of the
2) daisy, whose name comes from Anglo-Saxon dæges ēage, meaning “day’s eye”.
3) The eye-like appearance of the daisy, with the ladybird like a slightly off-centered pupil