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Pour Agathe, les gendarmes désignent seulement ces jolies punaises rouges et noires, à la cuticule décorée d’un masque océanien, qui s’accouplent en faisant le train et dont une petite communauté vit au pied du rosier qui grimpe le long de la façade, à côté de la porte de la maison, et du coup j’hésite à l’éclairer sur la merveilleuse polysémie des mots de notre langue. (Eric Chevillard, L'autofictif, 29 juin 2011)
Location: Europe > Portugal > Algarve
Date Photo Taken: November 25, 2007
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Die Feuerwanzen (Pyrrhocoridae) sind eine Familie der Wanzen (Heteroptera). Weltweit gibt es über 400 Arten, davon kommen fünf Arten in Europa vor, von denen zwei aus der Gattung Pyrrhocoris in Mitteleuropa leben. Ihr Hauptverbreitungsgebiet befindet sich in den Tropen und Subtropen. Die Feuerwanzen werden im Volksmund oft fälschlicherweise als Feuer- oder Franzosenkäfer bezeichnet.
A Firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus) / verőköltő bodobács on the University of Debrecen campus, Debrecen, Hungary, 31 July 2014. I'm not sure if this is a nymph or if it's just a recently molted adult.
Vivitar 35mm F/2.8, reversed with a 12mm extension tube, ISO100, 1/160 @ f8.0, off-camera flash with softbox.
3 years since we all left, we're all back at the firebug....hungover for blackcurrant and soda hangover cures. Burgin recreates his one time manager role.
A fella, I caught in my garden after the rain...
Addition: The red-black fella is a Pyrrhocoris apterus --> Firebug in english and Gendarme in french.
They are frequently observed to form aggregations, especially as immature forms, with from tens to perhaps a hundred individuals.
Firebugs generally mate in April and May. Their diet consists primarily of seeds from lime trees and mallows.
They can be seen in tandem formation when mating which can take from 12 hours up to 7 days (?!?! uuuuu, mmmmm :D :P). The long period of copulating is probably used by the males as a form of ejaculate-guarding under high competition with other males.
Maddie lighting a sky lantern during our Labor Day camping extravaganza ... OK, we mostly sit around the campfire telling tall tales and drinking malted beverage products ;-)
After doing yard work all day, I threw some sticks into the firepit. I don't know if I gave him the idea or if he already had the thought...every time I looked at him he was sitting by the firepit!? "Ok bud, if you want to sit by a fire, I'll make one and sit with you" :-)
Not Eurydema dominulus but rather Pyrrhocoris apterus die Gemeine or Common Feuerwanz. The creatures with three small "buttons" on their backs are the nymphs. English wikipedia page for the Firebug here. It feeds on the seeds of Lime trees.
A cute little Tuscan firebug that kindly posed for a quick macro.
I've only seen firebugs once in our garden in the UK so was surprised/delighted to find hundreds of them around Capanna Leopoldina, the property at which we stayed in Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany. Not everyone in the party was as pleased as me as they frequently came to visit the breakfast table!
This is shot by placing an old piece of vine against a stone wall, gently lifting one of the firebugs onto the vine and allowing it to climb until it had nowhere to go.
Processing is in Color Efex Pro 4.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II
EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM@100 mm
1/160 sec at f/13
ISO400
Sporty's was a short hop from Red Stewart Airfield. We stopped by for some charts and to get some paperwork signed by Steve and give Jerod a little extra practice. The inside was really cool. There was a cool diner inside, a Cessna hanging from the ceiling that was being raffled off, and you could order anything from their catalog and a girl would get on a bike and ride through the big warehouse in the back to pick it up. This is also where Firebug got her transponder installed. Steve was very sad to see someone else flying her.