I am hoping lightning does strike twice, and I get another chance of captures like these this year. But this time with Meadow Pipits as the host bird.

Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo

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Peering from the gate, the fields and the forests, the sunny afternoon.../Detalles de otoño, mirando desde la tranquera, los prados y bosques, la tarde soleada…/Varenda höst grej, tittar från grinden, åkrarna och skogen i solen...

fotosöndag

tema din närmiljö, ,your local environment,

Antic hostal de camí ral, situat en una collada del municipi de Sant Agustí de Lluçanès (Osona), sota la muntanya dels Munts, en un indret travessat per antics camins ramaders i per la moderna cruïlla de carreteres que enllacen el Lluçanès amb el Ripollès i la plana de Vic.

Antiga masoveria de la masia del Vilar de Sant Boi, fins el 1965, és una masia de tipus basilical que té a la llinda la data de 1756. S'hi celebra una tradicional fira de bestiar el 28 de setembre, en l’època que els ramats de les contrades pirinenques i subpirinenques baixen a hivernar a les zones, més càlides, de l’interior. La fira se celebra en camp obert, i l’hostal li ha donat el nom de fira de l’Hostal del Vilar. (enciclopèdia.cat)

Autumn in the park

Home for a few nights, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

www.stefansphotos.se

Dahlia El Paso on a spangled backdrop - lovely pink, lilac and yellow dahlia playing host to some wee critters....couldn't get a photograph without them, every time I returned, every shot :^)

In our garden.

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Daffodils

Norrköping prison (left) and the industrial landscape of Drags (right)

In the span of 10 years this site went from being an abandoned quarry to hosting the U.S. Open

Processed with Snapseed.

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View from city park Åbackarna across Motala river

View from city park Åbackarna across Motala river

A host of motorcycles, mostly Harley Davidsons gathered at the Brookdale Tavern Bloomfield NJ across the street from me on March 6th, 2021. Earlier in the day members of the Bloomfield NJ police department and many others from police departments as far as Massachusetts said final good-byes to retired Bloomfield 53 year old police officer Benedetto “Benny” Christiano, who lost his battle to COVID-19 on March 2, 2021. He retired in December 2020 and then was diagnosed with COVID-19.

Från grönt till brunt

haagbeuk

Hornbeam is an important host plant for the cockchafer.

The leaves of the hornbeam are also a food source for a large number of butterfly larvae. The tree is a host plant for the larvae of the small winter butterfly (Operophtera brumata), hornbeam moth (Agrotera nemoralis), hazel owl (Colocasia coryli), Acleris cristana, Coleophora ahenella, Coleophora anatipenella, Coleophora currucipennella, Coleophora fuscocuprella, Coleophora milvipennis, Coleophora orbitella, Coleophora serratella, Coleophora siccifolia, Pamphilius marginatus, Stigmella floslactella, Stigmella microtheriella and Ypsolopha parenthesella.

Aberdeen is currently hosting SPECTRA, Scotland’s Festival of Light, and as we can't get to see it ourselves, I thought I'd make my own Light Show that can at least fill the computer monitor with some intense colour ☺️!!

Happy Sliders Sunday! 😊

About Spectra

"held in Aberdeen City Centre between 6th-9th February 2025. This award-winning free public festival involves innovative light installations, large-scale projections and interactive artworks sited across the centre of this Granite city to create a magical winter experience in north-east Scotland."

from 2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVOBdn1tukw

and www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU39YrH27fw

My Sliders Sunday set is here: Here

Post-processing set: Here

Olai Park and Knäppingsborgsgatan during autumn in Norrköping, Sweden

Taxi maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Winterfell/48/206/1442

Prizes and Gifts Galore. Come and Meet your Host Bella

Södra Promenaden

These small wasps are ovipositing in its host, e.g. a caterpillar (this is a male, however, so no ovipositor). The wasp larvae develop inside the living (and still growing) caterpillar. Typically, in the last larva stadium, it hatches from the host and continues feeding from the outside...

They play an important role in the ecological balance.

Mitutoyo 10x NA 0.28, tube lense: 125mm (Raynox)

Illumination: Dark field, UV and oblique

Larval host plants:

1. Cassia fistula - Golden shower - കണിക്കൊന്ന,

2. Senna auriculata - Tanner's cassia - ആവാരംപൂ,, ആവര,

3. Senna occidentalis - Coffee senna ഊളൻ തകര,

4. Senna tora - Stinking Cassia, Chinese senna, Java bean - വട്ടത്തകര,

5. Senna alata - Candle Bush, Ringworm shrub - ആനത്തകര,

6. Sesbania grandifora - Vegetable hummingbird, Akathi - അകത്തി

7. Sesbania sesban - Egyptian riverhemp,

8. Sesbania bispinosa - Prickly Sesban - കെടങ്ങ് (Leguminosae),

9. Gnidia glauca - Fish Poison Bush, Balsam tree - (Thymelaeaceae)

Hosta are looking particularly good this year. I have to spray them with deterrent to keep the deer from eating them to the ground. Deer seem especially fond of certain ones. I don't know if it's the plant or the location. I've sprayed three times already.