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Taken on our dam I wondered down to see if the water lily’s had any more life left in them & found this bug doing what bugs do.
It was a dark and stormy day.
One minute, it was a mottled, ho-hum cloudy kind of day. The kind you hate. The kind that makes you wish it was a few hours earlier or later; the better for the weather to start throwing a temper tantrum, or something. So it was going at the Bug Ranch in Conway, Texas, on Route 66.
Well, I wasn't paying attention. Suddenly I noted that the sky had turned, not black, but into a sheer opaque beige wall of dust and grime advancing on me which completely obscured the buildings and highway I had been fretting about in the foreground of my proposed shots. The wind rose, the temperature dropped, and the hair stood up on the back of my neck. I ran for the car, and found shelter just as a crescendo of wind and sound and spitting rain started keening around me.
Fifteen minutes later it was gone, but it left lasting damage on I-40 going east: a five or six hour delay cleaning up a massive four-semi accident, where at least one trucker lost their life and several others were injured.
A pair of Dock Bugs actually doing their thing on a Dock leaf!
The Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus) is a large and mottled reddish-brown squashbug with a broad, oval abdomen. The two small projections between the antennae are diagnostic.
There is one generation per year, adults mating and laying eggs in spring. The nymphs feed on dock and other related plants in the Polygonaceae; new adults may be found from August onwards. The Dock Bug is common and widepread in southern Britain, including Ireland, where it may be found in a variety of dry and damp habitats.
My husband thinks this is a cherry tree, but I thought cherry blossoms were pink, so I am not sure lol.
I found this little chap on an outside wall and can't identify it.
Anyone know?
Edit. Now identified as final instar nymph of Parent Bug (Elasmucha grisea).
Getting familiar with my Nikon 105mm 1:1 f/2.8 micro lens. Depth of field is super narrow so trying mess with focus points, focal length, and lighting with and without flash.
We look for bugs, we study bugs, we read about bugs and we play with bugs. Childhood is such a gift.
🐞 C-7 🐞 Marienkäfer 🐞 (Coccinella septempunctata) 🐞
Canon EF 28-80mm f/3,5-5,6 USM & 36mm extension tube
Käfer-Collage
Series of three. My allotment sweetcorn has become home to some interesting bugs and a green cricket. Unfortunately my book does not help with identification. So, any suggestions gratefully received. East Sussex area.
Leaffooted Bug (A true bug!), Leptoglossus oppositus
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This bug was on the outside of the window and all other reflections (camera lens, etc.), dirt specs and outdoor images are as they appeared and have not been added or manipulated.
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Leptoglossus is a genus of true bugs in the leaf-footed bug family. Several species are economic pests of agricultural crops. Like members of some other genera in the family, these bugs have leaflike dilations of the hind tibia. Leptoglossus oppositus is one of a variety of species of leaf-footed bugs. It looks very much like Leptoglossus fulvicornis but can be distinguished by the deeper scallops in the leaf-like feature of the hind tibia and the addition of three white spots across the hemelytra.
Source: Wikipedia
Scientific name: Leptoglossus oppositus
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: True bugs
Rank: Species
While exploring the swamp I found my first giant water bug in some open water. This one is a nymph, soft & translucent. Found 2 interesting facts when I researched them. They can hide with heads in the water and butt up due to a breathing tube at the end of their abdomen. And females attach the eggs to the male's back so that he carries the babies until they hatch. They are predators & eat water insects as well as snails, small fish, and both tadpoles & adults frogs & toads.
Giant Water Bug Nymph (Belostoma sp)
Rowlett Creek Nature Preserve
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The Portland Breakwater Light (also called Bug Light) is a small lighthouse in South Portland, Maine.
The lighthouse was first built in 1855, as a wooden structure, but the breakwater was extended and a new lighthouse was constructed at the end of it in 1875. The new lighthouse was made of curved cast-iron plates whose seams are disguised by six decorative Corinthian columns. Its design was inspired by the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, made well known by engravings. The architect was Thomas U. Walter, most noted as the designer of the U.S. Capitol east and west wings and its current dome. Wooden sheds and a six-room house for the lighthouse-keeper were added incrementally as needed. In 1897 Spring Point Ledge Light was erected and the houses around Bug Light were demolished and the Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse keepers tended to both lighthouses. During World War II, the breakwater was slowly absorbed by landfill as the New England Shipbuilding Corporation built two shipyards next to the lighthouse. These shipyards produced Liberty Ships for the war effort. Because of the smaller breakwater, there was a lesser need for the lighthouse and it was decommissioned in 1943.
Restoration
The light was fully restored in 1989 and was reactivated in 2002. It appears as a private aid to navigation in the US Coast Guard Light List as South Portland Breakwater Light. Today a park named after the lighthouse, Bug Light Park, allows visitors to view the Portland Breakwater Light up close, while memorializing the shipbuilding efforts of World War II. The light was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Portland Breakwater Light on June 19, 1973.
It was absolutely frigid!!! My fingers were so cold and in pain... but I couldn't stop. haha