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We left Bremerhaven and all those big ships and cranes and industry to head further up north (although just a bit).
I really wanted to visit this small harbour called Wremen and see the shrimp cutters and the tiny lighthouse.
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.
Huge colonies of leaf-cutter ants (Atta spp.) are scattered in the lowland tropical forests of Central and South America. These colonies can be as large as a house, although the size is hard to visualize because they are underground.
The ants are active day and night, often using the same pathways, and I’ve seen places where they have worn trails six inches deep into the soil. They are always busy harvesting leaves of almost any plant and bringing them back to the nest.
Remarkably, they are not eating the leaves but using them to grow fungi. In the nest, they mash up the leaves and use them to grow a specific type of fungus that they use as their only food source. They are, in fact, fungus farmers, not leaf eaters.
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.
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!!!
To please children, prepare wavy vegetables. Guaranteed succes. "Cutter is the theme of the week". HMM!
My wife suggested her biscuit cutters for the theme #Circles in #MacroMondays. They are circular and I thought they mad an interesting abstract macro in monochrome. Hope you enjoy!
These square pastry cutters are my entry for this week's "Macro Mondays" group challenge theme of "Member's Choice - Found in the Kitchen". HMM
Photographer - Francis
Art Director + Saliva Wasting Slave - Me
Editing Slave - Me
Model - Grass Cutter Indian i found from somewhere
Location - Somewhere in Pulau Ubin
Time - Too Hot to remember
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
A 5" wire cutter plier and framers hanging wire. Tip of plier to green margin is 1.5".
group: #MacroMondays
theme: #HandTool
My contribution to Macro Monday's challenge, "Cutter", on 9 March 2020. It's a pair of secateurs that I use for dead-heading roses.
Minuet Cutter.has a somewhat unusual stern sprit for its backstay. Her designer/builder is Canadian Dr. Archie Steele. Her owner told me, “Accommodations below are simple and light in weight as speed is the goal over comforts.”
She is overtaking an orange craft that Is rigged with a lug sail as I often used on my sail canoe. Sitting up on the gunwale as I have done many times, can be exciting if there is a sudden loss of wind.
Port Townsend's 2023 Wooden Boat Festival woodenboat.org/plan-your-visit
Electric disk cutters found on board the Mavi Marmara
One of the electric saws found on the Mavi Marmara which were used to saw metal rods off of the ship's deck. Rioters used the rods to attack Israeli Navy soldiers who boarded the ship.
Photo: IDF Spokesperson
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.~Balthus