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The art of utter devastation
The picture has notes. If you can't see them, going to lightbox and back again should do the trick. It's simply a Flickr quirk.
Zoom right in while on full screen, and roam around to discover, in detail, the extent of the damage.
The photo was taken in late November at the base of an oak tree. You can see the brown oak leaves in the top right-hand corner of the picture. These escaped the destruction while those scattered around on top of the nest had fallen after the event.
I found these 'ruins' of a nest in 2008 while walking the dogs along the river, only 100 yards from where we live. It was just a few months after my first encounter with an Asian hornet on the kitchen floor. The nest had been destroyed by local authorities in a desperate but somewhat futile attempt to curb the spread of this orangey yellow peril. The nest was virtually empty and would never have been reused!
It was this scene of utter devastation that sparked my interest in the Asian hornet. I must have taken nearly a million photos of them over the past three years. You see, if I think I've got one chance in a million of getting it right, then I do what any respectable Shadok would do and go for the million as fast as I can. So, since I haven't quite reached the million yet, there's still some hope - albeit very slight for the Gibi* that I am! :-(
* Gibi = GB (Great Briton) (ツ)
Take that little extra care my friends and many thanks for calling,
Colin ... (ツ)
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The art of utter devastation
The picture has notes. If you can't see them, going to lightbox and back again should do the trick. It's simply a Flickr quirk.
Zoom right in while on full screen, and roam around to discover, in detail, the extent of the damage.
The photo was taken in late November at the base of an oak tree. You can see the brown oak leaves in the top right-hand corner of the picture. These escaped the destruction while those scattered around on top of the nest had fallen after the event.
I found these 'ruins' of a nest in 2008 while walking the dogs along the river, only 100 yards from where we live. It was just a few months after my first encounter with an Asian hornet on the kitchen floor. The nest had been destroyed by local authorities in a desperate but somewhat futile attempt to curb the spread of this orangey yellow peril. The nest was virtually empty and would never have been reused!
It was this scene of utter devastation that sparked my interest in the Asian hornet. I must have taken nearly a million photos of them over the past three years. You see, if I think I've got one chance in a million of getting it right, then I do what any respectable Shadok would do and go for the million as fast as I can. So, since I haven't quite reached the million yet, there's still some hope - albeit very slight for the Gibi* that I am! :-(
* Gibi = GB (Great Briton) (ツ)
Take that little extra care my friends and many thanks for calling,
Colin ... (ツ)
Back to photo page : Out of Asia ...