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I've been disappointed that I haven't had any Megachile Leaf-cutter bees using my garden "bee-hotel" this year. Over the last couple of days though, a couple have been investigating holes. This one has been busy clearing out all the material from one of last year's nests and seems to have taken up residence. I've only got a "head-shot", but those mandibles are very leaf-cutter-ish! Even so, it could be Osmia leaiana. I've had several of those nesting here.
Letter (envelope) opener
This week's Macro Mondays (9th March) is the theme "Cutter". The series of shots here are my thoughts and working shots ... not necessarily my final choice.
Cheers to Friday and the weekend ahead!
The Cutter is a hand tool used to cut peat from less wet, shallower bogs. This means the peat it reveals is drier and therefore more easily burnt producing a whisky that has a medium-heavy smokiness, in this case, with a phenol content of 20.5 ppm. ~ ancnoc.com/whiskies/archived-collection/peaty/cutter/
Whisky-tasting Day / Social Distancing Day 230, 10/29/2020, Sunnyside, NY
Panasonic DMC-G2
LEICA DG SUMMILUX 25/F1.4
ƒ/1.4 25.0 mm 1/60 200
These three are going to Cutters, an exhibition in Ireland next month. Real happy to be involved. Over 50 artists.
Three of the pilot cutters taking part in the Bristol Channel race. Most of the boats taking part are originals that are over a hundred years old. I think the boats in this shot are the Mascotte, Alpha and Olga.
CUTTER "love will tear us apart"
aerosol, yarn (X-stitch), marker (shadow & highlight) on canvas 60x60 cm
Pretty similar set up to what most of you cookie bakers have, I think. Some people may look at all those boxes and think I have enough cutters to last a couple lifetimes, but of course I always have more on my "wish list!"
(The boxes are normally on a shelf in my garage, but I pulled them out recently to further organize them.)
Check in on my blog this week I'll be having two different cookie cutter giveaways! As if any of you need MORE cookie cutters! =)
Decorations at the Washington County Humane Society's Festival of Trees, all proceeds go to the shelter. :)
How we suffered grief and pain
On the banks of the Barron cutting cane
We sweated blood we were as black as sin
And the ganger he put the spur right in
Old folk song, author unknown
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Just had the thought that this photo could also represent "The Summer of the 17th doll", a play by Ray Lawler about cane cutters.
This is one of the top cutting horses in the nation.
Softbox camera right. Strobe behind horse at some distance.
Afternoon as the sun's on it's way done to stop down and take a shot of the calm waters of the Port Lincoln Marina.
On a sunny day in June, Portland's Eastern Promenade is a great place to be. There are cool breezes, plenty of grassy hillsides for a picnic and even beaches, for those who don't mind water temperatures in the high 50s. In this scene, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company's excursion train is pictured crossing Cutter Street, which leads to a public parking lot with bathhouses for the beach-goers. On the point is Bridgton & Saco River #7, which is the museum's largest operable steam locomotive. Because this short, 1.3 mile line does cross public roads, this railroad is FRA-regulated and all steam locomotives which operate here are required to have current FRA Form 4s. This image was captured in 2018, not long after the #7 returned to service, after a lengthy restoration process.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Taney actively served for over 50 years and has been in combat in World War II, the Vietnam War and patrolled for drug interdiction and fisheries protection. This historic ship is also participated in the search for Amelia Earhart in 1937. I used my Lensbaby Fisheye lens for this Baltimore, Maryland, shot.
...presumably?
I have been hanging around looking for the owner but not seen her. She must be good at staying under my radar
The leaves look like bramble leaves to me but not sure
I have 4 "bug hotels" but generally i only see mud type cappings from mason bees and potter wasps (i do see the potter wasps going in and out)
so this one was a nice surprise to see.
Protex - Private Lives
Meat Cutters at the Super Fresh Market I worked at paused to let me take this shot in 1985. When this store opened in 1975 as A&P it had an overhead meat rail for forequarters of beef, it entered the cooler through the opening over the door in the background.
One of my first duties here was cleaning the meat room at the end of the day.
My bee hotel is very busy at the moment, but this one has decided to line a hole in a plant pot. If it's still at it tomorrow, I'm going to try for a sharper shot.
Whilst watering some pots in the garden a green flash caught my eye, I turned to see a piece of leaf disappear into a small pot. I watched and saw a leaf-cutter bee emerge from a hole in the soil of the pot. It kept going in with leaf pieces. I left that pot alone and got a camera out but it didn't show up again. A few days later I noticed a small pile of soil beneath another planter that was on my bench, I examined the planter and found a hole in the liner and saw the bee going in and out with leaf pieces! Today I saw the bee again and decided to have a closer look at the first pot, then pulled the plant and soil out in one piece and found the folded leaf pieces close to the edge. How exciting to see this and them still intact. I will leave well alone and keep camera at the ready to capture the bee. Here are some photos.
Leaf cutter ant (Acromyrmex sp.) from the Yetu Rapids near Chenapau, Guyana. Photographed for Meet Your Neighbours.
There are seven species of leaf cutter bee in the UK. I think this is one of the two commonest, the patchwork leaf cutter bee (Megachile centuncularis).
This triptych, taken in my garden, illustrates a neat semicircular cut to a rose leaf caused by a bee, a female bee carrying a section of leaf to her nest site, and a bee (perhaps the same one although at least two are using this site) hovering outside. The damage they cause to plants is trivial, likely to bother only those who grow plants to show them. They are great pollinators and so should be a welcome visitor or resident in any garden. They are very welcome in mine.
The nest is under a succulent plant in a pot in the garden. The leaves used in its construction will be glued together, an egg laid inside and a store of pollen left for the grub which will pupate in the autumn, hibernate over winter and emerge in late spring next year.
A helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, lands on the deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Forward, homeported in Portsmouth, Virginia, while training underway about five miles north of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The 270-foot medium endurance cutter’s primary missions normally consist of counter-drug and migrant interdiction, enforcing federal fishery laws, and search and rescue. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class John Luck.
Out for a bike ride, this old cutter was laying in the brush.
Camera Kodak Retina IIIC
Lens Schneider 2.0 50mm
Film Kentmere 100
Dev Xtol 1+1 10 min @20C
A leaf cutter bee resting in the shade inside a tree poppy blossom. At this range I can't identify its gender or species. The long antennae and hint of "mustache" hairs on its face suggest it's a male.
As I moved in for a closer shot, it took off and vanished.
On the 23rd of October 2016, Sian K1tt3h and I got to put a shoot together which we had been planning for a while.
Massive thank you to Matt, who helped assist us.
Staring Sian as Tuesday Cutter, from The World Went Dark LARP.
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