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An inmature form (nymph) of an assasing bug. A fierce predator of other insects.
Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Pselliopus sp.
A 150mm macro shot of this bug moving across some fallen stone work at Ta Prohm. I love the bokeh on this shot.
Olympus E-M1
OLYMPUS M.14-150mm F4.0-5.6 II
Aperture ƒ/5.6
Focal length 150.0 mm
Shutter 1/400
ISO 500
Don't really do bugs or Macro but couldn't resist this little chap. He decided to get in the boot of the car while I was cleaning it.. he would have been splodged but I carefully removed him to a plant following his photoshoot, always grateful for a subject!
Ever been bitten by a love bug? 3 Harlequin Beetles on a Hibiscus leaf shaped like a heart. These beetles are sap-suckers and you can see the damage they've done to this leaf.
The wheel bug is poised to grab this honeybee. He will use his hooked legs to hold her and then impale the bee with his beak. The beak (rostrum) extends (folds out), impales and then injects toxin and digestive juices into prey. By reversing flow this beak then serves as a straw.
In this photograph the wheel bug's posture reminds me of Count Dracula trying to hypnotize a victim he plans to impale. It did not work as this time the bee escaped.
Rostrum: www.amentsoc.org/insects/glossary/terms/rostrum
The Wheel Bug Rap
Said (or sung) with a funky beat
Your nose is a hypodermic needle,
Your back has wings to fly,
Your legs have hooks to grasp your prey,
And hold them till they die.
(Chorus)
They call you wheel bug,
Cause your back is a wheel,
It's shape is kinda rough.
You're a real bug!
With wings, six legs,
And lots of other insect stuff.
Your head is shaped like two arrows,
Right On It ... a beak and three eyes,
With two feelers of red, you're a sight to dread!
Mr. Wheel Bug ... you're a scary guy.
(Chorus)
Your beak extends like a switch blade,
It's pointed and hollow and kills!
It's a real poison pen ... but there's more!
It's a straw to drink your meals.
(Chorus)
Wheel bug you're so ... prehistoric,
It's good you're only ... one inch long,
I'm glad you're a bug and I'm not one,
And that's the end of this song.
Link to the wheel bug rap: www.flickr.com/photos/drphotomoto/3002340775/
Boisea rubrolineata is our western species of the common boxelder bug. They are almost abundant this time of year as they roam about on plant leaves.
Common Assassin Bugs (Pristhesancus plagipennis) have the long head with powerful proboscis. They use the powerful proboscis to puncture their prey. Their legs are long so that they have long attack distance. Adult bugs are brown in colour with transparent wings. Nymphs are dark brown to black with brightly orange abdomens.
Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC)
The planetary nebula NGC 7027 had been slowly puffing away its mass in quiet, spherically symmetric or perhaps spiral patterns for centuries — until relatively recently. "In some respects, the changes within this nebula are even more dramatic than those within the Butterfly," Kastner said. "Something recently went haywire at the very center, producing a new cloverleaf pattern, with bullets of material shooting out in specific directions."
The research team's new images of NGC 7027 show emission from singly ionized iron that closely resembles observations made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2000 and 2014 as part of earlier research by Kastner, team member Rodolfo Montez Jr. of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and collaborators. The iron emission traces the southeast-to-northwest-oriented outflows that also produce the X-ray-emitting shocks imaged by Chandra. "We have a sneaking suspicion that this nebula is a great example of what happens when a red giant star abruptly swallows a companion," Montez Jr. said.
The research team also includes Ph.D. students Jesse Bublitz and Paula Moraga of Rochester Institute of Technology, and Adam Frank and Eric Blackman of the University of Rochester.
The team's paper, "First Results from a Panchromatic HST/WFC3 Imaging Study of the Young, Rapidly Evolving Planetary Nebulae NGC 7027 and NGC 6302" was published on June 15, 2020, in the journal Galaxies.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C.
For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-provides-holisti....
Credits: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT)
#bugs for #FlickrFriday
These are firebugs. In Russia, we call them soldier-bugs. There are a lot of them in spring and summer, and while they may look threatening because of their bright-red colour, they are not really harmful. They do not bite humans or animals, nor do they damage the agricultural crops very much.
Also, while I was googling what they are called in English, I found out that when firebugs are in this position, they are, in fact, mating.
Black, bites on human, hunts you out wherever you rest. Nest finally found in open bag of multi bird seed. Eats seeds.
Climbs walls
Found in bathroom
then tracked next room dryer machine, humid conditions where large open bag of bird seed was.
Fly n bug killer sprayed regularly now.
Some Weevils can reproduce young on their own.