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Megachile lagopoda ♂
Leaf-cutter Bee
Grosse Blattschneiderbiene
Stor Bladskærerbi
Stortapetsererbi
flying at Centaurea scabiosa (Greater Knapweed, Skabiosen-Flockenblume)
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
Except for ISO, the EXIF data are incorrect, because the equipment used is not Canon-compatible:
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Die EXIF-Daten sind falsch, bis auf den ISO-Wert, weil das Zubehör nicht Canon-kompatibel ist:
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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).
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!
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!!!
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.
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.
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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A 5" wire cutter plier and framers hanging wire. Tip of plier to green margin is 1.5".
group: #MacroMondays
theme: #HandTool
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
There are lots of leaf-cutter bees (of several species) active at my garden bee-hotels at the moment. I've been spending ridiculous amounts of time positioned there, attempting to get that perfect in-flight shot. Just to make it clear, I realise that this shot is far from perfect!
I think that this is a Patchwork Leafcutter Bee (Megachile centuncularis). I've not seen one carrying such a large piece of leaf before. I was actually focused on another hole, waiting for a larger leafcutter female to return, when this individual flew into view. I'm a bit "diagonal" to the surface of the bee-hotel here, hence parts of the bee being in focus, but the majority not. It's very "touch and go" this in-flight photography. I've been positioning myself with the camera focused on a particular hole where I have seen a female leave. They generally return within 30 seconds with another piece of leaf. You can hear them coming, but they often hesitate when they become aware of you and the camera next to their nest. As soon at their head appears in frame, I take the shot.
I haven't got a really top quality shot during this recent session. I shall persevere though!
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
Measure twice, cut once. Cutting a piece of steel to fit a repair on an old railcar.
At the Niles Canyon Railway maintenance yard near Sunol, California.
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This is an envelope opener. You run the top of the envelope along the groove and a small cutter slices 2mm or so off the top of the envelope. It is just under 50mm long.
The image has been focus stacked to keep all of the subject and its reflection in focus.
Second cut series.
This bee actually cuts out small round pieces of leaves that she uses in her nest. It's not a honey bee and isn't social like them. Notice the piece of leaf between the bee's legs. She's just about to fly off with it.
See the "Leaf Cutter Bee Set" for a series of these photos.
Little people, big world
Garlic cutters
Knoblauch (Garlic) from the musical Tanz der Vampire
Taken for 'Macro Mondays' theme:
'Member's Choice - Found in the Kitchen'
The kitchen provides me with many photo opportunities, so it was a case of looking for something not so obvious for this week's theme. In a drawer, 'hidden' in a tin I came across this set of pastry cutters. Luck was with me because the bottom of the tin was lined with a disk of red paper. So removing the centre cutter and balancing it on the others I got this photo.
No extra or fancy lighting was needed with the tin on the work surface.
Meyer Optik Görlitz - Trioplan 1:2.9/50mm @ f5.6
Just over 2 inches