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Periplaneta sp.
Body length: 30 mm
I've not posted in a while since I've been working hard on a photo exhibition (up and running until March 13th March 31 (extended!) at "Aquaria water museum" in Stockholm).
This large cockroach appeared one day, seemingly out of nowhere, in my son's toy collection. He has a couple of plastic "cockroach replicas" so he seemed quite surprised when one of them had suddenly come to life.
This is not a Swedish species but something that has been introduced from warmer regions. I strongly suspect it came as a bonus when I borrowed a digital projector. The projector bag was a large padded thing with lots of creases and pockets for the cockroach to hide in.
168 exposures stacked in Zerene Stacker (PMAX). Shot at f3.5 but with the last 10 stopped down to f11 for a more natural transition to out of focus.
Optics: Bellows mounted and reversed Schneider Kreuznach Apo-Componon 40mm f2.8 HM.
Lighting: Two LED spots (IKEA's "Jansjö")
Larger view recommended!
A spider digesting its catch, a tightly wrapped german cockroach.
The crime scene happened right outside my room on the dry wall. This was an easy shot as nature literally came to me :)
The texture on the dry wall reminds me the surface of the moon hence the title.
A Cockroach.
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Location: Selangor, Malaysia
Lowland
This is my 2nd time seeing this cutie, the size of watermelon seed.
Very little is known about Bullseye's past because he is a habitual liar.
He claims to have grown up in the Bronx with a brother and an abusive father. The only time they spent with one another as a family was when they would shoot air rifles together. Even at a young age, Bullseye had excellent accuracy. This was demonstrated when he killed a pigeon by throwing a yo-yo.
Later, he and his brother, still at a young age, attempted to kill their father by setting the apartment on fire. As a result, the two were split up placed in foster homes. While in high school, Bullseye became a talented pitcher and was offered a college scholarship. He instead chose to join minor league baseball. With a perfect pitching record, it is possible that he was on his way to be a Major League Baseball player.
Eventually, however, he became bored and killed a batter who mocked him. This was a watershed moment for Bullseye, revealing the pleasure that killing brought him.
The Punisher & Daredevil
After serving in juvenile hall and prison, he joined the army. He claims he encountered The Punisher during this era. The Punisher attempted to shoot him, only to miss. Bullseye then returned fire with a knife, hitting The Punisher directly in the chest. Bullseye even mocked him by making a Bullseye on his own forehead made of mud. He allegedly went on working for the United States National Security Agency and then went on to become a freelance killer for hire. His rise to notoriety came in New York City where he wanted to make a name for himself by defeating Daredevil. He threw a grenade at the hero, and quickly defeated him in an alleyway. He then lured Daredevil into a carnival and defeated him again. Daredevil later returned the favor and bested Bullseye.
Kingpin & Elektra
Being beaten bothered Bullseye and destroying Daredevil became his new passion. When Bullseye was hired to kill the Kingpin, Fisk gave him a better offer. Bullseye was now under his employ.
After serving some jail time Bullseye began to suffer from his brain tumor. He began to kill innocent people after they all appeared to look like Daredevil to him.
He manages to get the upper hand over Daredevil in a fight, and says he will let Daredevil live, knowing that everyone Bullseye kills will be his fault. Daredevil regains his strength and defeats him.
Bullseye was angered to discover that the Kingpin had replaced him with Elektra. Bullseye managed to escape from jail during a televised interview and then searched to kill Elektra. In a battle with the female ninja, he slit her throat with a card and then severely injured her with her own sai.
Adamantium
It transpired that Elektra was Daredevil's lover and this added fuel to their mutual hatred.
After obtaining medical records from Daredevil's childhood accident, Bullseye believes Matt Murdock is Daredevil, and was granted superhuman powers by the incident that blinded him.
Bullseye then tries to sneak behind Matt and kill him in his own apartment, but Daredevil ambushes him. Daredevil tricked him by having a dummy pose as Matt with a tape recorder for audio.
Daredevil battled Bullseye and the fight moved onto a telephone wire across the rooftops. Bullseye lost his balance and fell, but Daredevil grabbed his hand. Bullseye refused to let Daredevil save him and tried to stab the hero. Daredevil released his grip, allowing Bullseye to plummet.
Bullseye's spine was shattered and he was left paralyzed. Bullseye was then taken to Japan, where Dark Wind replaced various bones with adamantium and laced others. It is unclear exactly what bones have been laced, but it has been confirmed that his spine, fists, and skull have adamantium.
Later, Bullseye posed as Daredevil when he was away from New York for some time. Again, he is defeated by Daredevil.
Bullseye also faced against Captain America and Crossbones during a battle between Kingpin and Red Skull's empire in New York.
Bullseye battles Captain America in a construction zone at night, and is able to keep the Avenger at bay. The fight is interrupted and Bullseye leaves unharmed. Crossbones later attempts to kill Kingpin, but fails due to Daredevil interfering.
Annoyed, Kingpin sends Bullseye to kill the Red Skull. Bullseye manages to shoot the Red Skull in the head, but it turns out to be a robot. He then battles Crossbones. Crossbones quickly obtains the upper hand, but Bullseye spits a fake tooth in his eye, stabs him in the bicep and then flees.
Mercenary
He also encountered Gambit when there was a price on Gambit's head. Bullseye stabs Gambit in the chest and defeats him, however Gambit is saved due to interference.
He also joined forces briefly with Deadpool, Vulture, Sandman, Sabretooth and Juggernaut to obtain the identity disc from A.I.M.
Bullseye attempts to leave the group, and battles the entire roster in a bar. He holds them back briefly with a volley of tooth picks, but is quickly defeated and remains on the team.
Bullseye battles Daredevil again and wins, and then injures Daredevil's girlfriend, Karen Page, with his own baton in a church. He also battled Elektra and Daredevil in the streets of New York. He was able to stalemate the two, but when he tried to flee, he is struck by a vehicle.
While in jail, he is released as chaos breaks out. Daredevil and Kingpin form an alliance in the prison. When Daredevil is told Bullseye is working with them, he refuses and attacks Bullseye.
While working foe Gen.Kato, he had faced Hit-Monkey at a wedding. The monkey was disguised as the ring bearer and tried unsuccessfully to kill Kato, but escapes by throwing cake in Bullseye's face.
Bullseye kills a man who laughed at this and fails to protect Kato, so he kills those who witnessed him failing. He ran after Hit-Monkey to a model's house and causes a fight involving three gangsters. Bullseye escapes unharmed.
Thunderbolts
After the Super-Human Registration Act, several villains were captured and offered a chance to redeem themselves by hunting down heroes and villains not in compliance with the Registration.
Bullseye became part of a new team of Thunderbolts along with the likes of (the new) Venom, and Norman Osborn. Each member has a safe-fail implanted in them, so if they go out of line, the device can be activated, electrocuting the user.
Bullseye serves as the one member of the Thunderbolt's that the public does not know about. Norman informed him he wants to let Bullseye kill, but only with targets Norman sees fit. When the team was unable to capture Jack Flag, Bullseye took him out by shoving a sai into his lower back.
This was done in a warehouse, away from the public. Later, Songbird tricks Bullseye into thinking his security features are disabled. Bullseye kills the two guards he is with and attempts to battle American Eagle. American Eagle makes quick work of Bullseye, and his device is set off, electrocuting him. As he is suffering, American Eagle slugs him across the face, apparently cracking his spine yet again.
Later on, telepaths that were being held captive in the base were using their powers to turn the team members against one another. Bullseye walks away from the operating table, apparently recovered, and uses the telepaths for practice, unaware he is actually saving the team.
Powers and Abilities
Bullseye's superhuman powers are centered on his skills. He is in fact more dangerous than many people that possess more robust physical superhuman powers.
Weapons Proficiency: As a result of his naturally perfect athletic gift for hand-eye coordination, Bullseye can quickly learn how to wield most forms of weapons even if he has never seen them before. Aside from throwing projectiles, he is also skilled with knives, swords, and other forms of edged weapons.
Bullseye has also used conventional firearms, bows and arrows, knives, shuriken, whips, sais, darts, and plastic explosives.
Bullseye can also use any item imaginable to kill and has been seen using normal everyday objects as either thrown projectiles such as: pen, pencils, vases, hairbrushes, golf balls, paper clips, tooth picks, peanuts, and playing cards. He once used a yoyo to kill a bird, Bullseye can throw arrows without using a bow, has used a single tooth knocked loose from his mouth, paper airplanes, a flashlight, an angry poodle, and a bullet without a gun. Bullseye once threw a gun right though someone’s chest, and has also shown being able to kill cockroaches by spitting orange seeds at them.
For close combat, Bullseye has been seen using a spoon to stab someone’s neck, he’s cut a person’s throat with a straw, a coffee cup, a pen and a clipboard and has shown being able to use other abnormal methods such as driving vehicles into a target, jamming a gun with a shard of glass, causing it to backfire and has even manipulated and used people to kill on his behalf for him.
Expert Marksman: Bullseye possess an innate ability to throw any projectile with great and unerring accuracy from either of his hands with a deadliness that borders on the uncanny. Bullseye has trained rigorously for many years with almost every type of throwing weapon that is imaginable, allowing Bullseye to develop an uncanny ability to use virtually any object as a lethal projectile.
Bullseye can throw an object with the size and mass of a baseball at over 105 miles per hour (168.981 kilometers per hour) and is also very skilled at ricocheting thrown objects towards targets as well.
Because of that, Bullseye can and has accomplish many incredible feats with thrown projectiles some of which are considered impossible. Because of Bullseye’s uncanny ability to use virtually any common object as a lethal projectile or weapon.
Hypercognitive: Bullseye’s brain can instinctively or with little effort perform certain complex operations beyond the capability of a normal human mind. This allows him to aim and throw with the perfect accuracy he’s known for while having little to do with deliberate cognitive thought.
Olympic Physical Conditioning: Bullseye is an Olympic-Level Athlete and weightlifter. Bullseye is in overall exceptional physical condition, with the agility, dexterity, balance, bodily coordination, reflexes, reaction time, endurance, stamina, bodily tissue durability, and speed all of which is equal to that of a professional or Olympic level athlete.
As a result of Bullseye’s naturally perfect athletic gift for hand-eye coordination, his reflexes and reaction time are actually honed to a level well beyond that of any normal human.
Bullseye has dodged gunfire on several occasions, has blocked a bullet and has even broken out of handcuffs by moving the chain of the handcuffs in the bullet‘s flight path.
Bullseye’s balance and bodily coordination is great enough to once even allow Bullseye to fight Daredevil on telephone wires. Bullseye’s metabolism is also conditioned to a higher human level which allows his body to heal at a faster rate than normal, allowing him to survive injuries that would be fatal to most normal humans. His stamina and endurance have also been reported to be at peak human condition.
Skilled Acrobat: Bullseye is a skilled acrobat capable of performing many difficult feats and is even capable of matching the feats of some of the finest human acrobats and due to the Adamantium implants fused to parts of his skeleton including his spine.
Bullseye is also able to utilize a range of motion in his acrobatic maneuvers which would be considered impossible for normal humans as his bones are protected from skeleton fracture. Bullseye has even shown being able to shot a gun with perfect accuracy while being in a mid-air backflip.
Skilled Pilot: Bullseye has shown to be capable of driving and piloting planes and other types of air based vehicles to the point where even being tracked by a heat seeking based missile, Bullseye was able to make it fly back to its source by having it follow him.
Escapologist: Bullseye has shown that he is a skilled escape artist capable of breaking out of high security facilities and prisons often using methods of intimidation to aid him.
Interrogation Expert: Bullseye is well versed in various forms of interrogation methods including torture and intimidation. Bullseye once tortured and interrogated someone by flicking toothpicks into their body.
Stealth Skills: Bullseye has shown when he wants to that he can be very skilled in the areas of stealth and is capable of breaching high facilities without being detected. He even snuck on to Genosha to kill a mutant with invulnerable rock-like skin by throwing a poisoned dart into its ear in broad day light just to show he could.
Master Martial Artist: Aside from Bullseye’s ability to throw projectiles with lethal and unerring accuracy, Bullseye is also a master of a wide verity of different forms of martial arts disciplines in both armed and unarmed combat with Bullseye’s knowledge of every pressure point and vulnerable spot on or in the human body and is also extremely talented in the use of edged weapons and conventional firearms.
Bullseye is considered by some to be overall one of the top all-around fighters on the planet.
Bullseye has easily beaten Gambit, has shown of being able to kill multiple Hand ninjas with almost ease, and has fought and even toyed with Elektra, who is arguably one of the most skilled ninja on at least two separate occasions.
In fights, Bullseye has consistently held his own and has even won multiple times against Daredevil and even Daredevil has stated that Bullseye’s skill set could even rival his own.
Often, Bullseye’s outspoken attitude during physical combat about using his abilities seems to have become one of his favorite weapons of intimidation. As such, Bullseye believes that his attention in the media grants him more effectiveness in combat with a near flawless reputation, rather than an assassin who often uses fear of the unknown.
Expert Assassin: Bullseye possess knowledge of every pressure point and vulnerable spot on or in the human body and is capable of turning virtually any object into a deadly weapon capable of incapacitating or killing any enemy. Bullseye is a deadly assassin often hired by the likes of the Kingpin for covert assassinations making him one of the world's greatest assassin. Bullseye has a compulsive need to study his targets' histories, abilities, and relationships before engaging them. Bullseye employs this information in attempts to anticipate many of his opponents' movements and reactions in combat. This compulsion often crosses from the professional line of work into personal, such as Bullseye's obsession with Elektra or Daredevil.
Body System Control: Bullseye does have some degree of control over his bodily function as he was once able to break out of S.H.I.E.L.D. hold by giving himself cardiac arrest by making his heart stop beating and making himself flat line, forcing the guards to take him out of his straps and chains whom Bullseye then killed as they tried to perform CPR. When questioned by one of the guards about it Bullseye stated “the heart is a muscle which can still be controlled”.
Wealth: According to Bullseye himself; he has amassed a fortune from the large number of hits he has done in the past, and yet has spent very little of his money once saying that it wouldn’t surprise him if he had more money than Norman Osborn and once even paid off Deadpool in order to save his own life while pretending that it was Norman Osborn’s money he was giving.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: "Lester"
Publisher: Marvel Comics
First appearance: Daredevil #131 (March 1976)
Created by: Marv Wolfman (writer)
John Romita Sr. (artist)
Bullseye was last seen in BP 2021 Day 11:
Blattella asahinai
These guys look like the German cockroach that invades homes, but these prefer the outdoors. That is one way you tell them apart it seems. The other ways are that they are attracted to light and fly. These guys are helpful to farmers as pest killers.
Paratropes sp. Tentative ID based on www.inaturalist.org images. Found at Finca Las Piedras, near town of Monterrey in Madre de Dios region in southeastern Peru.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-24EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaberus_giganteus
Recycler
Like all roaches, these giant scavengers are omnivores: they will eat almost anything, including dead animals and plants, and even bat poop (guano).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Museum_of_Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature; Ottawa, Ontario.
This guy has a very special reproductive behaviour. After she has selected the cockroach of its choice. The wasp would then surgically and strategically stings this baby to paralyse and turning it into a host for her offspring to feed on.
size : 20mm
No wonder these folks always hang around dustbins and rubbish dumps where there is a plentiful supply of their prey.
Looks like she is dressed in a shiny green body armour.
@bt panjag, sg
Lately have came to know the cockroach has just revealed another secret to the researchers. Its amazing reproductive rate suggest that they ought to be great fuckers, making love all the time. But in reality, the truth is far from it. In fact the female only mate once in its entire life. Its possess a very special ability to store and maintain healthy sperm in its body. This unique behaviour allows the female to fertilize the eggs herself without the need to seek the help of a mate. Thus allowing the reproductive cycle to takes place anytime anywhere anyhow.
No wonder they just simply can't be eliminated. Their hardiness is another major contributing factor to their survival.
Not only they are able to withstand the most extreme weather condition they are also able to withstand extremely high level of harmful radiation which most living things can't.
These fuckers is probably the only creature to emerge unscathed after a nuclear holocaust broke out on earth where all humans and along with the plants and animals that we are associated with are completely wipe out.
Hmmm...that makes me wonder if one day we are able to make them surrender their blueprint of their unique properties we might be able to survive a little bit longer here on mother earth.
One thing for sure I won't adapt from them if I'm a female is their sexual behaviour kind of boring.....
probably
Ellipsidion sp.
Family: Ectobiidae
Order: Blattodea
Cockroaches can be mistaken for beetles but are in the order Blattodea (rather than the order Coleoptera). Unlike beetles, which have hard elytra or wing covers, cockroach wing covers are soft and flexible. Cockroaches tend to have longer antennae and legs than beetles.
Like termites, which are also in the order Blattodea, cockroaches exhibit "incomplete" metamorphesis or hemimetabolous metamorphesis. In this type of development, the juvenile form is called a nymph. The life cycle is egg, nymph, adult. There can be several stages in the nymph develpoment and these are called instars. (For insects that have 'complete' metamorphesis, or holometabolous metamorphesis, the juvenile form is called a larva. The life cycle for holometabolous metamorphesis is: egg, larva, pupa, adult. The term 'instar' is also used for the development stages of holometabolous insects.)
There are 450 described species of cockroach in Australia - a good proportion of the 4000 species that are known in the world. Very few are pests to humans.
In this photo, we have a tiny nymph feeding on a flower.
The protrusions at the pesterior end of the abdomen are circi: sensory organs with a similar function to antenae in sensing vibrations.
This is a huge wasp about 2cm in length, in full shiny armor ready to pound on any cockroach she can find
@bt panjang, SG
I always find these fellas hanging around my neighborhood dustbins. The reason is that these are no ordinary insects; they are cockroach hunters, one of the most highly specialized killing machines ever designed by mother nature through her rigorous process of evolution.
The secret lies in its bizarre reproductive life cycle. The moment when a female is ready to deliver her eggs, she first seeks her victim/host which is none other than a sexy looking well fed cockroach.
Once the target is located, she immediately goes into action by delivering the first injection (sting) to the cockroach's neck. This soon paralyzes its legs and puts it into a more manageable state where she can then deliver the second dose of venom. This sting would be directly to the head (brain) with surgical precision. Every step has to be precisely controlled in order to achieve the desired effect. Too much venom or venom to the wrong part, and the poor cockroach dies too soon, or the wasp dies from exhaustion.
Then comes to the most interesting part, with just the correct amount of venom injected into its brain, not only is the cockroach's escape instinct permanently disabled, but the victim also (slowly but surely) turns into some kind of zombie that obeys the wasp's every instruction.
Next, the wasp pulls the cockroach by its antennae and leads the victim to her burrow. There, she lays a fertilized egg on the cockroach's body, leaves the burrow, and seals the entrance. The egg will hatch after a few days and the larva would then feed on the still living cockroach until it's ready to exit the burrow as a fully grown wasp to start this unique behavior and reproductive cycle once again. (if it's a female; I guess all the male does is diligently take part in the mating process…* which is not bad after all)
closeup view :
www.flickr.com/photos/lonesomecrow/5994339206/in/photolis...
Hope I can capture the complete sequence one day.
Lately have came to know the cockroach has just revealed another secret to the researchers. Its amazing reproductive rate suggest that they ought to be great fuckers, making love all the time. But in reality, the truth is far from it. In fact the female only mate once in its entire life. Its possess a very special ability to store and maintain healthy sperm in its body. This unique behaviour allows the female to fertilize the eggs herself without the need to seek the help of a mate. Thus allowing the reproductive cycle to takes place anytime anywhere anyhow.
No wonder they just simply can't be eliminated. Their hardiness is another major contributing factor to their survival.
Not only they are able to withstand the most extreme weather condition they are also able to withstand extremely high level of harmful radiation which most living things can't.
These fuckers are probably the only creatures to emerge unscathed after a nuclear holocaust when all humans and along with the plants and animals that we are associated with are completely wipe out.
Hmmm...that makes me wonder if one day we are able to make them surrender their blueprint of their unique properties we might be able to survive a little bit longer here on mother earth.
One thing for sure I won't adapt from them if I'm a female is their sexual behaviour kind of boring.....
Dorsal view from a German cockroach ( Blattella germanica )
shot based on 47 exposures stacked at f5.6, exp.time 1.3sec, ISO200 in Zerene Stacker
The scene lit by a plastic diffused yong nuo 460 II flash
SMC Pentax-M 28mm F/2.8 | Asahi Pentax Auto Bellows M | Canon 5d Mark II
Many people don't realise that Britain has a few native species of cockroach. They are all small & mostly limited to the south coast counties. Lesser cockroach is the smallest of them, males averaging 7mm long & females just 6mm. Coastal shingle is a known habitat for them & it was nice to turn a few up under the pebbles. They are the first native cockroaches I've ever seen.
Designed by Robert J. Lang, folded by me from 1 uncut 30cm square of the same bread wrapping paper I used for my alamo stallion