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The genus name, Lanius , is derived from the Latin word for " butcher ", and some shrikes are also known as "butcher birds" because of their feeding habits.
The Red-backed Shrike bird (Lanius collurio) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. The general colour of the males upper parts is reddish. It has a grey head and a typical shrike black stripe through the eye. Underparts are tinged pink and the tail has a black and white pattern similar to that of a wheatear. In the female and young Red-backed Shrikes, the upperparts are brown and vermiculated (wavy lines or markings). Underparts are buff and also vermiculated.
This 16 – 18 centimetres long migratory passerine eats large insects, small birds, voles and lizards. Like other shrikes the Red-backed Shrike hunts from prominent perches and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a ‘larder’.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in most of Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa.
The Red-backed Shrikes range is decreasing and it is now probably extinct in Great Britain as a breeding bird, although it is frequent on migration.
The Red-backed Shrike is named as a protected bird in Britain under a Biodiversity Action Plan. The Red-backed Shrikes’ decline is due to overuse of pesticides and scrub clearance due to human overpopulation.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in open cultivated country with hawthorn and dog rose.
Red-backed-Shrkle adult male-bush-cricket_w_4849.jpg
Mole cricket wasp
Larra anathema is a species of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Crabronidae. It is the type species of the genus Larra.
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Sunday was spent in pursuit of White-letter hairstreaks with Lucy and Steve down on Alners gorse, we saw three or four in the tree tops, sadly that's where they stayed.
With the exception of Gatekeepers and mixed browns, butterfly numbers seemed very low, a few Skippers, Marbled and Large whites, a couple of Silver-washed fritz, Red and White admirals and just one Purple hairstreak.
My 'Bug of the Day', which I originally misidentified as a Bog bush cricket, and then in a state of much excitement as a Grey bush cricket... Was in fact a Dark Bush Cricket !! So not an Orthoptera tick for me... :@[
Common as muck
Immature/late instar or possibly even an adult female, but I've now completely lost interest and shall refer to all crickets in the future as hoppy/jumpy things.
The rules regarding Obstructing the Field...
Sort of.
I wish I could show you more, but then the image wouldn't meet the challenge set by this weeks Flickr Friday
An example...
' A Batsman will be given out, if he wilfully obstructs the opposite side by word or action'
Law 37 s1.
So now you know....
Daisy and tiny green cricket from archives.
The cricket had already chewed on a petal.
A bit dark but you can still see the cricket.
Have a good one
This is the second time that I found a decapitated insect head on my back steps. The first time it was a Carpenter Bee head, this time it appears to be a Cricket head. It's almost like they were being presented to me. I'm beginning to wonder if I have a secret admirer that just so happens to also be an insect serial killer. ( I’m just being silly, it was most likely a Wasp that did this) Strange times my friends, strange times. Photographed in Maryland.
Focus stack of 6 images, shot with the camera hand held. Canon 80D, Canon MPE 65mm macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400.
(Oecanthus fultoni), also known as the thermometer cricket makes an occasional appearance on mild days in the winter. They live inside tree trunks close to the ground for a warmer micro-environment. Its antennae are disproportionately longer than its body. We were trying out a X10 extension tube on our Sony.
The Cricket Tunnel is oriented roughly northwest to southeast, and passes under Old United States Route 65 south of Omaha. It is 2,657 feet (810 m) long, with a concrete-finished northwestern portal from which retaining walls extend, topped by a projecting cornice. The southeast portal is unfinished, as its opening was excavated out of bedrock. Much of the interior of the tunnel is lined with steel and concrete, as it passes through an area of mud and watery clay.[2]
Both tunnels were built at the same time in 1903-05 by crews of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Construction of the Cricket Tunnel took longer than anticipated due to the clay encountered, and by a rockslide in the tunnel in September 1904. The concrete lining was added to the tunnel in 1906 amid concerns of continuing rockfalls, and
additional work in 1916 removed the top from the southern 500 feet (150 m) of the tunnel.
Credit;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_and_Crest_Tunnels
高島屋京都店で「Amour de Chocolat」開催中です。
フルーツパーラーCricketさんと村上開進堂さんコラボの
苺プレートお目当てで行ってきました♡
（写真はスマホに‥。）
村上開進堂さんのさくさくのクッキーも
クリケットさんの苺もサイコー！でした( *´艸｀)
Nymphs are more colourful than the adults. Even so, this female is well matched to her surroundings.
Portland, King Barrow Quarries.
Since the olden days, Chinese have been keeping crickets as pets. Here, you can actually see live crickets being sold at a shop in Zhujiajiao, China.
27/100
This is the first cricketing weathervane I've seen this year, and it's miles from the nearest cricket pitch.
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At dusk the other day, this little Speckled bush-cricket (I think it's one) crawled around on the lawn at home. A little sluggish, it moved slowly and I followed with macro and flashes. On its way, it enters this red-blasted leaf and stops balancing on the edge of the leaf and licks its leg. I had a flash thrown out on the ground obliquely behind to the right, which illuminated the leaf, and then a flash from above from the left as main light. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to adjust the exposure to the maximum so the background became a bit dark.
Regardless, the little dance between us was the treasure of the evening. 😀 Shortly after this photo was taken, it used its powerful hind legs and flew away into invisibility ... I managed in some strange way to lift my old body to a barely standing position and staggered and stumbled to the warm abode of home...😆😂 happy in the mood like this on an autumn evening in October... and thought in my quiet mind.. it's all good and fine here at home anyway..😍
A cricket in Bidadari.
Read about the destruction of Bidadari in my blog: Final Farewell to Bidadari
*Note: More pics of Insects and Arachnids in my Fauna ~ Invertebrates Album.
I saw Crickets Post today, requesting a Pile up.
The greenscreen whined at me "Pleaase, erase me!"
So, I couldn't help but to fiddle about this picture and this is how it turned out.
This is for you, Cricket. I hope you'll like it :)
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Sand Treader Cricket, Mojave Desert. It's commonly known that scorpions fluoresce under UV light, but quite a few other creatures glow as well. I guessed that these pale crickets would fluoresce, and you can see the result. Light painted with a small 365 nm flashlight at night. Mojave National Preserve, California
Playing last weekend with my new toy: a 2x extender lens to plug into my 70-200. So far loving it :)
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