#duckweed — Public Fediverse posts

Twice The Protein Of Eggs. Grows In 7 Days. Why Every Government Wants It Gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UqTUHE7NFA

The video sounds pretty sensationalist, but the information seem correct from a quick check and it might be kind of a conspiracy.

Duckweed was actually approved as "Novel Food" by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in 2025.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/153/oj
https://www.wur.nl/en/research/plant/duckweed-new-sustainable-vegetable-approved-european-market

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemna_minor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemna_gibba

#Food #Proteine #Lemna #duckweed #conspiracy

Is #duckweed really as awesome a source of protein as this video is trying to tell me? I can totally see how it would it would disrupt agriculture industries, if so.

https://youtu.be/-UqTUHE7NFA

ribbit ribbit 🐸

#film #filmphotography #frog #NaturePhotography #aquaticplants #duckweed

Feeding time for the lily pads at Longwood Gardens. Kennett Square, PA. #WaterLilies #plants #aquatic #botany #nymphaea #nymphaeaceae #duckweed #lemnoideae #ponds #lemna

Took a friend to the #JapaneseGardens in Esquimalt-Gorge Waterway Park. They'd never been there before & really enjoyed it 😊

#GorgePark #WalkInThePark #YYJ #Lekwungen #Wsanec #Esquimalt #ViewRoyal #YYJparks #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #Saanich #PacificNorthwest #PNW #UrbanParks #VictoriaBC #GardenWalk #waterlily #lilypads #ponds #duckweed #nature #landscaping

Just playing around with mirror edit with a simple #pond stone & some vibrant green #duckweed 💚

Do you see some abstract faces & creatures in this?

#Symmetrical #mirrored #PhotoArt #photography #PhotoEdit #nature #Green #Abstract #art

@Broadfork
Just realised, yesterday I failed to include the photo of the #compost bin after adding the contents of the three piles of #duckweed and #dredgings.

Guess what! The bay did fill up again so, this afternoon, I spent more time removing #duckweed from the #lake. Look carefully and you'll see the nearest and furthest piles are larger than in the earlier photo.

I was hopeful that the #lake would stay clear of #duckweed for a while, but after I'd cleared the bay that was full of it I realised that the wind was bringing in more from other parts of the lake and the #bay would soon be full again.

At 09:09 this morning I decided it was a good time to take advantage of what the #wind had done overnight. A lot of #duckweed had accumulated in one of the bays in the #lake
visible from out lounge window.

With the aid of a angler's net attached to a long pole and a rake I managed to make a good stab of removing the weed along with some sludge and twigs found on the bed of the lake. It's now in a number of piles on the bank. I'll give it a day or two to allow #invertebrates to crawl back into the water and then move the piles to the #compost bins.

#Duckweed found to differentially mark old and new #transposons without #DNA #methylation .

#Spirodela #epigenetic #small_RNA

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-duckweed-differentially-transposons-dna-methylation.html

I think this is my best #frog pic yet. Look at its cute little #duckweed hat!

:inaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/229577802

Female #mallard #ducks.
Lots of #duckweed on the lake.

#Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #NatureLovers #YYJ #VancouverIsland #wildlife #birds #waterfowl #BottomsUp #FluffyButts #avian #UrbanWildlife #estuary #Nature #PNW

Entengrütze (Duckweed)

#Ducks #Duckweed

"Rescued" a bluetongue #lizard from my #pond today. It seemed happy enough, and wasn't bothered by me handling it so it was either grateful or perhaps too cold to care.
Definitely useful to have a thick layer of #duckweed on the pond though, as this is what saved it from drowning.

#wildlife #bluetongue

@botanyone Very interesting work on #duckweed! One of my favorite research systems for #PlantScience

A water skipper (or strider) and duckweed, on an oyster shell.

The small, front pair of legs are used for balance/stability, while the other two pairs of legs do the work of moving.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time swimming in the pond my father had built in the woods. Seeing water skippers always makes me flash back to slowly kicking along in the summer sunshine, with my arms over the edge of a black inner tube.

Soon to be for sale in the shop at the Seattle Art Museum. For information on purchasing, see my website: https://kitozbooks.com/product/painted-oyster-shells/

#WaterStrider #WaterSkipper #bug #insects #insect #bugs #duckweed #pond #wildlife #WildlifeArt #ActuallyAutistic #art #artist #TraditionalArt #painting #oyster #shell #SeattleArtist #PNW

Today, just four crops — wheat, rice, corn and soybeans — supply two-thirds of human calories. there might be a fifth: #Duckweed may become one of humanity’s first new major crops in more than a century, since soybeans introduced from China spread globally during the 1900s.

It contains the protein #Rubisco which can be formed into meat and dairy substitues. Exciting times for #veganism 😍 https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/27/new-plant-based-meat-developing-rubisco-duckweed/