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A dead Cicada I found today. It looks a bit different from the normal Green ones I see every year. It has an almost camo look to it.
The children painted with worms (rubber); made a squish painting to show the mirror image of what they painted; made a super cute tissue snail and an insect crayon rubbing. The children then explored several sensory stations. Magnets; rings; fidget toys; sensory bins were multi-colored rice with lizards, dinosaur skeleton dig, fresh made play dough. Other sensory tables items included gel spiders, stack wood beads on a stick, counting and picking up numerous insects, and sensory houses.
The children painted with worms (rubber); made a squish painting to show the mirror image of what they painted; made a super cute tissue snail and an insect crayon rubbing. The children then explored several sensory stations. Magnets; rings; fidget toys; sensory bins were multi-colored rice with lizards, dinosaur skeleton dig, fresh made play dough. Other sensory tables items included gel spiders, stack wood beads on a stick, counting and picking up numerous insects, and sensory houses.
Female with prominent ovipositor. Found mid-day on a sidewalk. Cell phone photo from just a few inches away.
DuPage Co., IL
Friends and I found a couple of these striking click beetles along the Blue Ridge Parkway on 16 May 2021.
Ctenicera horni (~12 mm, syn Vittathous horni)
Happy Wing Wednesday!
These bugs were amazing. I wouldn't have even noticed them, were it not for the position of the sun.
I found this beautiful creature dead on the windowsill. It reminded me of a Cat Stevens song "My Lady d'Arbanville" (......why do you sleep so still.....) I've identified her as an Antlion lacewing, belonging to the family Myrmeleontidae (great word!) but I'm not sure. Any expert identification very welcome!
This seems to be taking place for the first time in the history of photography that a bokeh is made out of light falling of flying insects.
Frozen with dread while reading Noam Chomsky's, "Failed States", an insect's previously blissful indifference to the turmoil of human geopolitics is ominously laid out before her.
(An absolutely surreal moment from the early morning hours after the overnight vigil spurred by MLA Dr. David Swann for victims of the Darfur crisis in Sudan.)
SEE ORIGINAL--- Bumble bee buzzing around our porch. Shot many pictures. This was cropped from an image as small a the head on this bee.
Beside the back door, right at the foundation of the house, a tree has persisted in trying to grow. Every year, I cut it back and dig out what I think are all of the roots, but next year, it comes back to mock me. I don't know what kind it is, but someone suggested Black Ash. Anyway, I have another name for it that sounds kind of like "ash" and has "pain in the" at the beginning. I was happy to see something was eating its leaves, but never could see what...until one night I turned on the light and stepped outside to look at a beetle. I noticed this large (3"/5cm) caterpillar happily nomming on a leaf. I took a few photos, thinking I could find it on BugGuide, but the best I could get was "some kind of Catocala" (underwing moth). I decided that since the tree still had leaves, I'd just keep the cat indoors where nothing could eat it, feed it, and wait to find out for sure what kind of underwing it is. The leaf it's on looks a bit dry because I took him outside to photograph when I went to get him fresh leaves. He didn't move at all during the day, but ate at night, and thrashed around with great enthusiasm when disturbed. This morning (Monday), I was going to get him fresh food, but couldn't find him because....he'd built a cocoon. Guess we'll find out what he is in time!
One of the first pictures I made with my DSLR. The bee stayed on that leaf for quite a long time so I managed to make a lot of shots and this is the best one.
I don't have special macro lenses yet...
Sofia, Bulgaria
A female Lymaenon aureus parasitoid wasp of the Mymaridae family found in rough grass in the garden. Additional pictures below, note very short petiole, wing proportions and eight funicle segments
The last August I was in Europe for vacations, it was a trip where I visited a lot of friends that I didn’t see since I left Barcelona around 6 years before. One of my friends, Luz, is living in Hamburg, and I went to visit her from Colonia by train. She was waiting for me in the Hamburg main train station when we met, she asked me to go to her home walking from the train station through a big park to her place; of course, I said yes. When we were in the park in a singular moment I looked towards the ground and I saw this amazing and beautiful insect with a special drawing on it back; it looks like an Africa tribe's Shaman mask. My friend asked me how I could saw it on the ground if that insect was so tiny, and I said to her because I felt that something was looking at me.
Marcelo.
The children painted with worms (rubber); made a squish painting to show the mirror image of what they painted; made a super cute tissue snail and an insect crayon rubbing. The children then explored several sensory stations. Magnets; rings; fidget toys; sensory bins were multi-colored rice with lizards, dinosaur skeleton dig, fresh made play dough. Other sensory tables items included gel spiders, stack wood beads on a stick, counting and picking up numerous insects, and sensory houses.
A 0.6mm long male Anagrus atomus parasitoid wasp of the Mymaridae family found in rough grass in the garden. Additional pictures below.
Another morning stroll through the neighborhood with my Olympus OMD EM-5 Mark III and the M.Zuiko 60mm macro lens. Paired with the Raynox DCR-250 and the Godox TT350O as well as the amazing AK Diffuser.
The children painted with worms (rubber); made a squish painting to show the mirror image of what they painted; made a super cute tissue snail and an insect crayon rubbing. The children then explored several sensory stations. Magnets; rings; fidget toys; sensory bins were multi-colored rice with lizards, dinosaur skeleton dig, fresh made play dough. Other sensory tables items included gel spiders, stack wood beads on a stick, counting and picking up numerous insects, and sensory houses.