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Shot on Black and White with my Agfa Isolette camera.
I really love my this car. It was a bargain to begin with, otherwise I couldn't have bought it, but I never have stopped loving it.
One day I'm gonna shot a picture with this car on a setting that lookes like the old days ;-)
I almost missed this chap as he posed in the weak sunshine hoping to attract a mate.
To lok this smart he must have attended The Ugly Bug Ball but without success.
Beautiful bugs - I have them in compromised positions too...
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On top of a squash leaf showing damage from feeding.
Wick House garden, Jockey Hollow NHP, Morristown, NJ.
Apologies for the crap-quality photo. I was in a hurry and none of my photos came out well. Does anyone have a clue what this weird little bug is? Have I photographed it upside down? I don’t know! It was on the sliding door on my back balcony. [Blue Mountains, NSW]
EDIT: Many thanks to Maurice for identifying this as a weevil, Oemethylus triangularis.
Boo! For Halloween, I thought I'd go back to archives and find something scary from my many adventures. I'm still not sure what kind of bug this is, but I found it and many of its friends on agave plants below Hunter Peak, in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, in June 2004. The scale isn't obvious, here, but they are at least two inches long, possibly more like three or four when all parts are included. They were, and still are, one of the creepiest things I've seen on any hike. This was one bad S.A.B. (scary agave bug)!
Jiminy Cricket on the right decided to hop on in Burkina Faso and decided to get off somewhere in Mauritania... Not a bad ride
A collection of travel bugs that I've accumulated for our camping trip scheduled for next month.
For those of you not in the know, these travel bugs can be tracked by individual code numbers at the www.geocaching.com website.
I'm using this shot as my entry for this week's theme in the HooHah52 weekly challenge of Signs. Whenever I accumulate a large assortment of travel bugs, it's a sign that summer vacation is very close (three more teaching days and I'm done). It's a sign that I'm getting ready to go on an extended camping/geocaching trip. Last year, I don't remember how many travel bugs we moved along, but I do know we found 105 geocaches while camping in and around Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks.
I'm hoping for similar numbers this year. Destination is still up in the air, but I think we're going to be staying closer to home, at least in California this year.
Acanthocephala or Leaf footed Bugs are distinctive, nearly inch-long stately insects in the Coreidae family. Leaf footed bugs are named for the leaf-like expansions of the hind tibia and femora. They have four-segmented antennae, large compound eyes and one pair of ocelli, or simple eyes. The Latin name Acanthocephala means “spiny head.”
All species of Coreidae are plant-feeders. Some Coreids live in leaf litter, but most nymphs and adults live above ground on their host plants where they may feed on seeds, fruits, stems or leaves. Many occur on an astonishing variety of plants, while some are restricted to a single host, such as the squash bug, known for its destructive feeding on cucurbitaceae.
These insects have a distinctive proboscis, a “hypodermic-like” beak. “Like all true bugs, the adults are equipped with a beak, or rostrum, a hypodermic needle-like device carried under the head, which it uses to pierce the plant tissue and suck out liquids. They do not simply "suck out sap" they inject a tissue-dissolving saliva and vacuum out the resulting slurry. Bugs cannot ingest solid food, and widespread damage to the plant is a result of these liquefying enzymes.
Today I found a wheel bug, and it has to be one the strangest bugs I have ever found. I had no idea what type of bug this was until I got home and Googled "strange bugs of North Carolina." The wheel bug was the fourth result of the image search.
I took some pics that show off the whole body a little better, but I prefer this one because you can see the nasty beak that these shy bugs possess. After reading more about this type of assassin bug, I'm very thankful this guy didn't bite me........
Leaf-footed Bug )Acanthocephala or Leaf footed Bugs are distinctive, nearly inch-long stately insects in the Coreidae family. Leaf footed bugs are named for the leaf-like expansions of the hind tibia and femora. They have four-segmented antennae, large compound eyes and one pair of ocelli, or simple eyes. The Latin name Acanthocephala means “spiny head.”
All species of Coreidae are plant-feeders. Some Coreids live in leaf litter, but most nymphs and adults live above ground on their host plants where they may feed on seeds, fruits, stems or leaves. Many occur on an astonishing variety of plants, while some are restricted to a single host, such as the squash bug, known for its destructive feeding on cucurbitaceae.
These insects have a distinctive proboscis, a “hypodermic-like” beak. “Like all true bugs, the adults are equipped with a beak, or rostrum, a hypodermic needle-like device carried under the head, which it uses to pierce the plant tissue and suck out liquids. They do not simply "suck out sap" they inject a tissue-dissolving saliva and vacuum out the resulting slurry. Bugs cannot ingest solid food, and widespread damage to the plant is a result of these liquefying enzymes.
Tigger is a really sweet cat, but to be honest, I think his posing days are over! He was very cooperative in the past when he lived in Sugar Mill Gardens, and knew that posing would somehow ensure some kind of food reward, but now that he gets plenty to eat, his tolerance of the camera is limited! He still loves visitors, though, and everyone who comes over to my house is immediately greeted by him, meowing, preening, and drooling from happiness! (Yes, cats drool when they're content. Yuk.)
Right now, he's laying curled up against my bed pillow, something I haven't been able to break him of, but he looks so cute that I can't shoo him! It's almost bedtime, so all the cats, Barrymore and Squeegee, too, are assembled right next to me, waiting for their nightly tuna. So, goodnight for now!