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One of those shots I took just because, and am now glad I kept for a blog post :)
On Talking Story: You are Your Habits, so Make ‘em Good!
Who can figure this out?
Where is it?
What does it mean?
I will not, yet, give any indication of where it was taken, too much of a giveaway.
Photographed at Windsor Reservoir. Per BugGuide, all Ichneumon Wasps are endoparasitic idiobionts of Lepidoptera. An idiobiont has a wide range of hosts and it eats, kills, or paralyzes the host immediately after oviposition therefore resulting in no continuation of development (I a not sure how this strategy allows a species to procreate, but ... I am just an idiohumanoid). An endoparasite feeds internally on its host whereas an ectoparasite feeds externally. Female Ichneumoninae look for hosts on the ground and have short ovipositors, possibly as a result of their host usually being a naked larvae. Adults typically feed on Adults feed on honey dew of aphids and on certain plant foliage.
Cryptus albitarsis hosts include Helicoverpa zea, Grapholita molesta, and some other common agricultural pests. The range of this species is eastern North America w. to the Rockies
One of the challenges at the photography club I run was 'Cryptic Diptych Triptych'. I decided to use my new Halina camera that measures focus in feet (which I am struggling with slightly) and take pictures of things that confuse me, to tick the 'cryptic' part.
Photographed at Wray City Park. Talk about bug-eyed!
This fabulous creature (I think pretty much all cicadas are fabulous) is a "cryptic" species, long considered part of the "Bush Cicada" (T. dorsatus), until Cole (2008) published a paper documenting the dramatically different "song."
T. tremulus has been reported from at least Colorado, New Mexico & w. Texas per BugGuide.
This rat, active during the day and somewhat sluggish (perhaps exposed to rodenticide), was observed running along a home. As a prey animal, rats stay close to surfaces that provide cover from predators.
For more information: youtu.be/pug3kOQIbrY?list=PLoNb8lODb49tRq_de1U0y8-PyWnC39fws
A German Expressionist puppeteer. Yes that's a thing. Don't look at me like that.
The camera had a horrible problem with noise at even moderate iso. I turned that weakness into a strength by using it to make these images of a vintage party look old timey. The noise, aspect ratio and sepia were all in camera. There's been no processing.
This and similar images are best looked at in the 500 to 1024 resolutions.
These small clusters of hidden, venomous sea anemones were discovered in a deep, dark hole (puka) in a lava rock formation by me during reef surveys that my husband & I were conducting in Honaunau Bay, Hawaii. This species had not previously been reported on the Big Island. During our 900 hours of diving in this location, we only located this unique animal in one other spot, but due to unfavorable ocean conditions were unable to return to that location again to photograph them. Sea anemones are predatory, marine animals of the order Actiniaria.
*After discovering these hidden anemones, it took several consecutive years of scuba diving to photograph them under mostly turbid or dim light conditions. The day finally came to do our poster presentation at Western Illinois University, Annual Meetings of the Illinois State Academy of Science.
*Poster presentation can be viewed below.
Hard to tell which one this is, especially when it's really tiny and the image is not sharp at all :\
Jeff has a better shot here.
~Amed Ghost Bay~
STIMULATING THE SENSES & INTOXICATING THE IMAGINATION...
the embassy of new great britain,a fictional reality where the senses are stimulated and the imagination is intoxicated. an evening of satiation where you can indulge in luxury this exiting new work from josh armstrong questions our values and desires in our present world and for the future
cca glasgow 24th may 2013
Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi
Ranomafana NP, Vatovavy-Fitovinany Region, Madagascar.
This well-named species was completely overlooked until its discovery in 1992. It was described and placed in a monotypic genus in 1996. It's restricted to montane rainforest in eastern Madagascar.
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photo by Oksana Maksymova
scuba diving in Romblon
The Three P Holiday & Dive Resort
*macro and super macro specialists*
Babangtan, Lonos, Romblon Island, Philippines