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  1. VIK aiming to make ‘100% Chilean’ wine aged in estate-grown oak

    Chilean producer VIK is on a quest to make a “100% Chilean” wine aged in oak barrels crafted from trees grown on its expansive estate in the Millahue Valley. VIK’s chief winemaker, Cristián Vallejo, wants to make a 100% Chilean wine aged …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #ChileanWine #Chile #oak #VIK #Wine #WinefromChile #WineofChile
    diningandcooking.com/2638205/v

  2. Woodland Minibeast Macros

    The title’s a bit of a mouthful, and I hope you like these shots from a morning’s walk in a young woodland plantation near me. It was planted up as a screen to hide an extension to the local limestone quarry, and it’s now becoming quite the place for a mini beast walk.

    Start with the least interesting, perhaps. This is, I believe, a Turnip Sawfly Caterpillar, and the oak saplings are full of them. Hopefully the saplings will recover once the caterpillars have fed and fallen to the ground to pupate.

    A little more colourful and still devouring the oaks, this is apparently a mottled umber moth caterpillar. You’ll have to trust me and I’ll have to trust the AI I used to identify it. Oh my, the conflicts of AI technology, but it does have its uses… and its downside too, of course.

    Now this fella (I think it’s a male, as I also saw the much larger female on a previous visit) is a green cucumber spider. I spent a lot of time shooting this chap, and he’s simply gorgeous! So much so I know you’ll enjoy a close up… oh, you don’t like spiders?

    What a cutie…

    This shot is actually from my back garden, and from a sequence of shots as these two volucella bombylans hoverflies make a few more copies… most of the shots were top-down and less interesting, but at this point the stick they were, um, perched on rolled over. It didn’t dampen their ardour in any way I could see.

    And down in the nature reserve, during the weekly butterfly count, I stumbled (literally) over this slow worm as it sunbathed. Wasn’t harmed and I restored it’s hiding place before I left.

    There you go. A random selection of creatures. It does seem my photography is more ‘nature’ focused… well, it’s where I find my peace. I don’t know if the nature I interact with enjoys it as much as me, but I’ve never had complaints.

    If there are complaints and you wish to toss dung at me, here’s the fella who’ll be appreciate it – a golden dung beetle!

    #caterpillar #cucumberSpider #dungFly #minibeasts #oak #photography #slowWorm #spider
  3. How #oak trees outwit their predators myscience.de/en/news/2026/how_

    Satellite data show #trees delay budburst across landscapes to escape #herbivores nature.com/articles/s41559-026

    "If #OakTrees are heavily infested by #caterpillars, they react to this the following spring: they delay their leaf emergence by three days... This strategy is highly effective: the three-day delay is sufficient to drastically reduce the #insects’ survival rate. It reduces the damage caused by feeding on the #tree by 55%."

  4. How #oak trees outwit their predators myscience.de/en/news/2026/how_

    Satellite data show #trees delay budburst across landscapes to escape #herbivores nature.com/articles/s41559-026

    "If #OakTrees are heavily infested by #caterpillars, they react to this the following spring: they delay their leaf emergence by three days... This strategy is highly effective: the three-day delay is sufficient to drastically reduce the #insects’ survival rate. It reduces the damage caused by feeding on the #tree by 55%."

  5. How #oak trees outwit their predators myscience.de/en/news/2026/how_

    Satellite data show #trees delay budburst across landscapes to escape #herbivores nature.com/articles/s41559-026

    "If #OakTrees are heavily infested by #caterpillars, they react to this the following spring: they delay their leaf emergence by three days... This strategy is highly effective: the three-day delay is sufficient to drastically reduce the #insects’ survival rate. It reduces the damage caused by feeding on the #tree by 55%."

  6. How #oak trees outwit their predators myscience.de/en/news/2026/how_

    Satellite data show #trees delay budburst across landscapes to escape #herbivores nature.com/articles/s41559-026

    "If #OakTrees are heavily infested by #caterpillars, they react to this the following spring: they delay their leaf emergence by three days... This strategy is highly effective: the three-day delay is sufficient to drastically reduce the #insects’ survival rate. It reduces the damage caused by feeding on the #tree by 55%."

  7. Ant art.

    This oak post was rotten inside and ants lived in it, gnawing the wood into this artful installation.

    There's still one lost forest ant peeking out there.

    #Ant #Log #Oak #Art