PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Ducks Work

 
I am delighted to report that ducks really do eat Duckweed. These guys
remind me of the ADM TV commercials with rows of tandem combines
cutting through endless fields of wheat.

js

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 Jack Schmidling wrote:

When I was an undergraduate at Oregon State I worked for the ARS Plant
Materials Center and they grew among other things Duckweed to seed out
for waterfowl.

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 Rick wrote:


It's nice to know that a common name means something.  In this case,
well named.

js



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Richard Mabey's -Flora Britannica- has an interesting entry for
duckweed.  In some parts of England it is personified as ' Jenny
Greenteeth," a hag who lures children to death by drowning by covering
the surface of ponds so thickly they appear to be solid ground.

J. Del Col

 

My dog fell for that (literally) a few years ago.  We were walking
along a sluggish river that was completely covered with duckweed.  The
dog saw something on a small island and went bounding toward it.  Was
she ever surprised when she discovered the green area was water and not
land.  Jenny Greenteeth had chosen a faulty spot for her trap, as the
water was only a foot or so deep.
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Ray
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