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This shy little lady has made herself at home in my conservatory. Apparently she has quite a venomous bite which she uses to subdue her prey. The False Widow could give you a nasty bite akin to a wasp sting but they are very shy and certainly won't do so unless provoked.
False walls were built in various rooms that covered the heritage windows and prevented natural light coming into the building.
False walls were created for many different reasons. In some instances it was to store new services, other times it was to add a new room, and in this instance it was to block the windows to provide an exhibition environment for the art gallery which opened in City Hall in the late 1970s.
All fo the false walls are being removed to bring the spaces back to their original design intent and so heritage windows can be reinstated to provide natural light back into the building.
Cuban False Chameleon
(Chamaeleolis chamaeleonides)
Nashville Zoo 11/25/2006
Range: Cuba
Habitat: Forests
Diet: snails and insects
Closely related to the Anoles. It has many of the characteristics of Chameleon but does not have color changing ability.
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Farsus dubius (Coleoptera, Eucnemidae) female. Body length: 7 mm.
Found under the bark of a dead oak (Quercus pubescens).
Photographed with handheld EOS 5DII and the MP-E65 macro lens. The foreground was lit by a diffused flash. Settings: f/10, 1/50 sec., ISO 400.
Looks like I forgot to upload this one. I took it last February. I still like it enough to publish it now.
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False Creek Ferries, a division of Granville Island Ferries is a privately owned ferry service that operates on False Creek in Vancouver . The False Creek Ferry fleet has grown from the four electric ferries that formed the company to a fleet that now consists of 12 ferries divided into three classes; the 20 passenger Balfry-class, the 12 passenger Spirit-class and a class of three open deck ferries
It was a treat (for me) to see this beautiful spider today. Sadly I couldn't get the best photo as it appears to be using the village notice board as its home, and was behind the rather dirty glass.
116 pictures in 2016 (104) venomous, poisonous or toxic
I don't know why this has such a pejorative name. Looks like a perfectly good fritillary to me. Not uncommon in southern Sweden.
This is a false color IRFE (infra-red, fish-eye) photo.
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Some time ago, someone told me I should check out the hummingbird aviary at the San Diego Zoo. That person implied that the aviary there was had many more hummingbirds than at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Being a bit hummingbird deprived in the Chicago area, that was one of my objectives when we visited the zoo back in March. I wandered in...but where were the hummingbirds? There were lots of colorful birds, they were just a little too big. Maybe I was missing something; I went back later in the day.
I asked the docent in the aviary where the hummingbirds were, and she informed me it was still too cold for the hummingbirds.
Huh? But it wasn't too cold outside for native hummingbirds.
Turns out, the San Diego Zoo hummingbird aviary is too small for the native hummingbirds, as they are very territorial. They tried having native hummingbirds in the past, but the birds didn't survive as they all fought too much. In order to have at least 5 (!) in the aviary, they needed to have species from further south, and it was still too cold in San Diego at the time for them to survive.
Ironically, they released hummingbirds later that afternoon, but I had left by then. Unlike what someone implied, this is one of the areas that the little Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum certainly does better. Their aviary is larger and houses all native hummingbirds. The San Diego Zoo docent agreed with me on this point (and also agreed that the Taronga Zoo in Sydney was quite special!)
Oh well, the rest of our visit to the zoo was quite fun. We saw the baby panda, and I did see a hummingbird...a wild Anna's hummingbird singing away in the trees. :D While I was a little disappointed in the aviary, I knew I'd be seeing a plethora of hummingbirds in the wild in a month.
BTW, this is a Paradise Tanager (in the hummingbird aviary). Colorful, beautiful, but NOT a hummingbird. I sort of wonder if the other people in the aviary thought they were seeing hummingbirds...
"Executioner's Mask"
Although the Victorian visitors were told that it was worn by the executioner at the Tower, this mask is probably a recycled scold's bridle originally used to punish gossips. It is most unlikely that an executioner would have worn an iron mask.
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In the Tower of London.