just for everyone's info... I've altered the colour of this plant. The actually colour is all bright pink/fuscia (no green). We have these in our garden and they make such a lovely feature plant.

Thanks for looking...

They say a change is as good as a rest (I dispute this, but...) but with that theory in mind, here's 3 pics I took at a friend's gig last week.

The setting was uber dark, so I had to be a little creative with the settings. The results have been well received though :)

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Blakė kareivėlis

Pyrrhocoris Apterus (Linnaeus, 1758).

Chinche Rojo o de la Malva/ The firebug.

Este insecto aparta las estaminas para llegar al corazón de la planta y encontrar asi su supervivencia.

Macro, con AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105 mm., mejores detalles en tamaño grande.

Speaking In Italics playing White Noise Festival, Firebug, Leicester, UK.

Spring has arrived! The critters are moving!!

Feuerwanzen / firebugs

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Using the firebug lite and my new bookmarklet I can debug any page in IE:

remysharp.com/2007/03/13/firebug-in-ie-for-any-web-site/

... da sind wohl einige Wanzen

im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes aus der Haut gefahren :-)).

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www.facebook.com/firebugpyrography

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pyrrhocoris apterus

(firebug)

I love this little, colorful insect.

Gyerekkorom óta kedvelem a Bodobácsot, pedig sokan nem szeretik..Vajon miért? Annyira jól néz ki!

No alignment - just as the images came out of the cha-cha.

© Stefan Wimmer

Chemnitz, Germany: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeine_Feuerwanze

www.facebook.com/firebugpyrography

Feuerwanze am Hibiscus saugend / Die Gemeine Feuerwanze (Pyrrhocoris apterus) gehört zu den Feuerwanzen (Pyrrhocoridae) und ist neben Pyrrhocoris marginatus die einzige Art der Familie, die in Mitteleuropa vorkommt. Oft wird diese Wanzenart für einen Käfer gehalten und daher im Volksmund auch als Schuster- oder Feuerkäfer bezeichnet. Die Tiere leben gesellig, so dass man sie in den von ihnen bevorzugten Biotopen häufig in großer Zahl findet.

_ The firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, is a common insect of the family Pyrrhocoridae. Easily recognizable due to its striking red and black coloration, it is distributed throughout the Palaearctic from the Atlantic coast of Europe to northwest China. It has also been reported from the USA, Central America and India. It has been reported as recently expanding its distribution northwards into mainland UK. They are frequently observed to form aggregations, especially as immature forms, with from tens to perhaps a hundred individuals. _ from Wikipedia

Et le gendarme arriva face au fameux "Big Hole"...Que devait-il faire à présent ? Rester là ou tenter le Grand Saut ?

Feuerwanze

Polar Bear Club playing Firebug as part of the Summer Sundae Fringe, Firebug, Leicester, UK.

Camera: Canon 5DII

Lens: MP-E65

Automated macro rail: Cognisys Stackshot 3X

Lights: Few LEDs + yogurt DYI diffuser.

Stacker: Zerene Stacker.

Zoom: 4X

Spotted Firebug

(Corizus hyoscyami )

Vagnsunda,

Norrtälje,

Sweden

Model: Stubi

A bit warmer now so the firebugs are out stretching their legs again.

firebug alienated

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Caption: The Guberif (firebug spelled backwards) is again stalking Idaho, reminding school children and others to be careful with fire in or near the woods. Here Lorna Hibbard, 20, of Boise shakes an admonishing finger at the foe of Idaho forests. Under the paper-mache head is Barney Wosniak, Keep Idaho Green director.

Date: 1957

Photographer: [unknown]

Local Call Number: FHS6020

For more information on the Guberif character, see: Forgotten Characters from Forest History: 'The Guberif'.

Credit Line: Photo courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, NC

For information on photo use and more, see the Forest History Society Photograph Collection.

Probably one of the coolest looking VW bugs around.

in the botanical garden