Live barometers

From this number in the newspaper the new interesting heading – about the live organisms which are forecasting the weather opens. Here it is a question of an acacia, a rose, a dogrose, a calendula and a dandelion.

Popular wisdom

Still in the ancient time scientists argued much, are authentic or not meteorological pri­mety, based on supervision over a poveyodeniye of plants, birds and animals. Also lodge long supervision and researches came to a conclusion: plants, birds, and zhiyovotny to itself meteorologists. The modern science not only confirmed it zaklyucheyony ancient, but also itself proved influence of priyorodny and meteorological factors on live organisms.

* Especially sensitively react to changes of weather of a plant. The matter is that plants, unlike animals, can’t escape or depart from bad weather, hide in a zayoshchishchenny place. Therefore they on the pri­rode are very sensitive and beforehand react to the slightest changes of a soyostoyaniye of the atmosphere. One plants before a rain close the flower that ube­rech pollen from moisture and to reduce teploot­dachu; others – at low relative humidity reduce evaporations, plentifully allocating fragrant nectar; the third – "cry" small droplets of juice; the fourth me­nyayut a form and the provision of leaves – otgiba­yut aside, untwist or raspryamlya­yut them. More than 400 plants are known, kotoyory can be such "barometers".

* among live barometers honourable me­sto the acacia borrows. There is such sign: if bees stuck round an acacia – to the wood don’t go, there will be a rain. A secret that before a bad weather both yellow, and the white acacia in cent­re each flower allocates droplets of duyoshisty nectar. It also involves in akayotsiya of insects. In dry weather of insects at an acacia you will not meet – at this time she doesn’t treat them with sweet nectar.

* Interestingly behave in gardens of a rose and a dogrose: before a rain they don’t open the buds. Also a marigold (calendula) in the same way arrives – their bright orange inflorescences are closed before a rain. And though in the sky the Sun and day good shines, all of them equally won’t reveal, foretelling a close rain.

* Help to judge weather and a flower of oduyovanchik: if in the sky – the Sun, and a flower of dandelions are closed, there will be a rain. And happens and on the contrary: the sky frowned, on it clouds, and a dandelion flower ot­kryty float. Means, the rain won’t be. Continues to serve as a barometer and a deflowered dandelion. In dry weather its white fuzzes easily scatter from the lung a prikosnoveyoniya, from the easiest breeze. But before neyonasty, having caught humidity increase voz­duxa, the flower puts the fuzzes as an umbrella, and then neither a rain, nor a wind not so­rvut them from a place. Even to blow off them it is impossible at desire.

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