Female cosmonauts, not to miss out on all the egesta fun, have even been known to throw a vial of their own pee across the tyre to show willing.
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One of the reasons I struggled here was a difficult cross with 261D, which turned out to be EGESTA, or waste; there's some meaning here, but I was just befuddled by both clues, honestly.
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Spatalistis egesta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Japan (Honshu), the Russian Far East and China (Shanxi, Zhejiang).Spatalistis at funet The wingspan is 12–15 mm.Japanese Moths The forewings are orangeous to ochreous orange.
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Cymothoe egesta, the common yellow glider, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini The habitat consists of lowland to sub-montane forests, including secondary growth. Males mud-puddle and both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit.
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The belief that the name of the city was originally Acesta or Egesta and changed to Segesta by the Romans to avoid its ill-omened meaning in Latin (Ægesta in Latin means "excements") is disproved by coins which prove that considerably before the time of Thucydides it was called by the inhabitants themselves Segesta, though this form seems to have been softened by the Greeks into Egesta. The city was occupied by a people distinct from the Sicanians, the native race of this part of Sicily, and on the other that it was not a Greek colony. Thucydides, in enumerating the allies of the Athenians at the time of the Peloponnesian War, distinctly calls the Segestans barbarians. At the same time they appear to have been, from a very early period, in close connection with the Greek cities of Sicily, and entering into relations both of hostility and alliance with the Hellenic states, wholly different from the other barbarians in the island.
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus speaks about the Segestan thermal baths and tells that Eneas, after arriving in Sicily, left near Egesta his older mates who were tired for the trip, to repopulate it again and, by using these waters, have some benefits for their bodies.Tourist Eye - Terme Segestane So this myth connects also to the foundation of Segesta made by Trojans who chose it for the beneficial properties of the hot water in its territory. As regards the river position, all the historical sources referring this myth agree on the fact that Crimiso is located in the Segestan area, and so it should be the present river San Bartolomeo (made up by the confluence of the river Caldo and the river Freddo), at whose mouth Segesta had its harbour.
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The first Greeks living in western Sicily related the phenomenon of the formation of hot waters to a mythological event, according to which the heat of the river waters had been emitted thanks to a fluvial god's will, Crimiso, to let heat the nymph Egesta, escaped from Troy, get worm as she was unconscious on the river bank, and that later became his wife. They had a son, Acestes, who founded Segesta and gave her mother's name to it.Ignazio Concordia: la Sicilia tra Mito e Storia p.52-55, ed. The historian Diodorus Siculus tells about Heracles’ trip: while he was going to Erice he met the Egestee nymphs who, in order to help him to recover from fatigue, made Egestan (or Segestan)Giovanni Virzì, "Le polle del Crimiso" hot water springs appear on the surface.
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Myrmecotrophy, meaning "ant-fed," is the ability of plants to absorb nutrients from debris piles left by ant nests or, in the case of Nepenthes bicalcarata, from ant egesta. The tropical tree Cecropia peltata obtains 98% of its nitrogen from the waste deposited by its ant counterparts. A recent study by Chanam et al.Chanam, J., Sheshshayee, M.S., Kasinathan, S., Jagdeesh, A., Joshi, K.A., Borges, R.M., "Nutritional benefits from domatia inhabitants in an ant–plant interaction: interlopers do pay the rent" (Functional Ecology, 2014), showed that plants bearing domatia can be favoured even before the establishment of a specialised protection- based symbiosis, as nutritional benefits can provided by a motley set of domatia residents that could multiple species of ant (including protective, non-protective and even plant-damaging species such as Crematogaster dohrni) as well as other invertebrates, including as arboreal earthworms.
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