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Leaf-cutting bees are solitary bees that use leaf sections to make nests. I think this is either a female Patchwork Leaf-cutter or Willughby Leaf-cutter bee?? Can anyone help with ID? It is nesting in an old sleeper in my garden.
One of those egg slicer things. Completely redundant in my house as I don't eat eggs. And yet it lurks in the cupboard ...
Taken for Macro Mondays 'Cutter' theme.
It’s been a while since I posted here...time constraints and personal matters etc
Anyways, here’s my pathetic attempt at MacroMondays Cutter.
Document shredding scissors, such fun to use!
Many thanks for all views, fav's - and particularly comments - all are greatly appreciated!
Happy Macro Mondays to you all!
A landmark day today as I probably hit 1,000,000 views of all my best 423 photos taken over 10 years since joining and posting on Flickr. OK, so maybe there are many who have accomplished this milestone in a much shorter time but I thank you all anyway for taking the time to visit and view my work!
Aquila was built in 1966 but found as a derelict in 2011. She was rebuilt in two and a half years even though “we had no money”. They put in a lot of hard work and ingenuity and she has now been sailing for ten years. In the WBF program she is shown with a white hull and and a rainbow staysail. When I found the boat at the dock, it was painted turquoise and red and he did not bring the rainbow sail.
Port Townsend's 2023 Wooden Boat Festival woodenboat.org/plan-your-visit
After pulling my house apart, I finally found this cat cookie cutter I bought for Halloween years ago! I guess I don't have enough Polka Dots in my life, lol.
Smile on Saturday - Polka Dots
I include a second photo with a indicating scale.
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Captured this photograph of members of the Langstone Cutters Rowing Club starting on a practice session from Langstone slipway.
The building in the background is the former Langstone Mill, dating from around 1730 and now a private residence.
This is another insect working the yellow rabbitbrush. The leaf cutter bee cuts half moon pieces out of leaves and uses the leaf to form a nesting chamber in a hole. A single egg and a piece of honey is deposited in the nest and the female moves on to repeat the process. The bee collects pollen on the ventral surface of the abdomen.
Leaf-cutter Ants (Atta sp) (right) are the most ancient gardeners of the tropical forest. They patiently slice off portions of a leaf, and then carry the leaf bits overhead in a gaily-colored procession back to their underground nests. However, Leaf-cutter Ants do not eat the leaves they cut. Instead, the leaves are taken to an underground chamber and fed to a fungus. In these hidden, underground gardens, it is the fungus that the ants eat, in a sense using it as an external stomach to digest the leaves and convert them into edible food.
To protect themselves against predations, trees produce alkaloids. One of those complex compounds is called terpenoids. This substances discourage both insects and fungi. One terpenoid in particular, carophylene epoxide, has been shown to repel completely the fungus garden ant (Atta cephalotes) from clipping leaves of a Neotropical tree (Hymenaea courbaril). This terpenoid was shown to be highly toxic to the fungus that the ants culture (Hubbell et al. 1983).
Amazing to watch this bee repeatedly cutting notches out of leaves (in just a few seconds) and then carrying them to this hole in a garage wall, 15ft away.
For 'Macro Mondays' theme of 'Cutter'
How things have changed over a lifetime!
Then any food leftover was put into a basin, covered with a piece of muslin, and stored on the cool slate slab shelf in the pantry - that is if there was anything left over which was very rare.
Now we can wrap it in metal foil and put it in the refrigerator. A plastic dispenser holds the foil we use - 30cm wide and 50m long. Cutting it used to be a pain but now the dispenser flap there is a metal cutting strip. You open the lid, pull out the length of foil needed and then snap the lid down hard. The cutter does its job and you have the piece of foil you need.
In an attempt to recycle as much as possible, the plastic dispenser goes into one bin - except for that metal cutting edge in the lid. Using pliers I extract that and drop it into another recycling bin, but not before rolling or folding the metal cutting strip!
So, what you see here is a piece of rolled cutting edge from the foil dispenser - obviously not all of the edge.
Russian Industar 61 L/Z 2.8/50mm lens ....................... about 2 inches
Today's Macro Mondays theme is "Cutter".
I was struggling for an idea. I didn't want to turn the lawn mower upside down and macro the blade, or try to get the hedge trimmer teeth to look interesting. Sadly a knife looked like the only option until I found these minute scissors on the hall carpet.
I've set the doll's house scissors on the blade of some normal sized kitchen scissors. They are tiny!!!