Resharing for #WorldOysterDay
Resharing for #WorldOysterDay
Resharing for #WorldOysterDay
MOAR oyster filtration porn! #worldoysterday one oyster can filter 20 to 50 gallons! yowza! youtu.be/saAy7GfLq4w?...
whoa. One healthy adult oyster can filter up to 50 GALLONS a day! #worldoysterday youtu.be/EAUq0X0GMFo?...
Another Oyster filters the water video! this species from Hong Kong! #worldoysterday youtu.be/N39nPt7k3p0?...
Oysters are crazy efficient at water filtration! #worldoysterday youtu.be/VTuBbuUro4g?...
Did you know one oyster can filter 50 gallons of water a day?
Their filtration is so beneficial that NEIWPCC supports several bioextraction projects that recruit shellfish to provide these cleaning services in the Long Island Sound.
Learn more: lispartnership.org/our-vision-a...
#WorldOysterDay
oyster shell attached to tea lid
top view of oystershell adhered to teapot lid
Crassostrea virginica! #WorldOysterday attached to this teapot lid! Yes. indeed. Quite. via @invertebratesdc.bsky.social from the lower Potomac river!
oyster shell adhered to dentures, teeth facing down
osyter shell adhered to denture, top view
oyster adhered to denture. shell on top, teeth facing down
Happy #worldoysterday! A funky specimen of Crassostrea virginica adhered to DENTURES! from 1898! dredged off Pt. Lookout, MD via the collections of @invertebratesdc.bsky.social
Happy #WorldOysterDay.
#Colchester, #BritainsFirstCity has been associated with oysters since at least #RomanTimes.
There's even a type of oyster - the #ColchesterNative - named after the City.
More:
www.colchester.gov.uk/oyster-feast...
drawing: “brush with transparent and opaque watercolor over black chalk on moderately thick cream wove paper, the sheet trimmed to a graphite line faintly visible at left” “round oyster shell surrounded by bright green and blue colors with four small shells below and three conch shells above” “undated, signed in brown watercolor at lower right inside edge of oyster shell: ODILON REDON”
For #WorldOysterDay 🦪:
Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)
#Oyster, c.1900-10
Drawing, brush w/ transparent & opaque watercolor over black chalk on paper, 8 15/16 x 5 1/2 in.; 22.7013 x 13.97 cm
Smith College Museum of Art SC 1954.36: museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t...
digitized color book plate in portrait orientation, natural history art, scientific illustration of an oyster specimen, outer and inner shell views
Today is also #WorldOysterDay 🦪 - on a #MolluscMonday !
“Denticulated Oyster” (Striostrea denticulata)
illustration by R. P. Nodder in George Shaw’s _The naturalist's miscellany_ Vol. 16, London, 1804-5
Via Biodiversity Heritage Library : www.flickr.com/photos/biodi...