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Today I've seen an insect on my window - the first one in this spring :).
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Pentax K10D + Tokina 28mm with reverse ring + built-in flash
Dragonfly having an insect for lunch. Let's hope it's a midgie.
Taken near Hunterston Castle during a walk from West Kilbride to Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Damn dirty fly... stop bugging me!
If you want to see some real great insect photography, check this dude: Lord V.
No idea what this is -- it buzzed a lot, moved quickly, and was about twice the length (half the width) of a housefly. Buzzing left me nervous so I stepped back when it took off.
Bogbean is a perennial plant, that flowers from May to July. The flowers are pollinated by various insects like this shiny little Chequered Hoverfly~Melanostoma scalare
Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae
The Monarch Butterfly larva.
This butterfly is probably the most photographed butterfly in the world.
Raleigh, NC USA
September 18, 2010
BC: Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae). The Monarch butterfly is also sometimes called the Milkweed butterfly because its caterpillar feeds in Milkweed plants (Asclepias sp.). The caterpillar displays the yellow-orange-black pattern with some white as well, but is considered to fit into the defensive color pattern of milkweed insects. Some people call the insects that live on Milkweed and that are red, orange and black as part of the "Monarch Mimicry Complex".
Yesterday this thing came in and fluttered around the light. Anybody know what kind of insect this is? It's quite large - I would guess about 8 - 10 cm including antennae. I think I've found the name: Ophion ventricosus (correct me if I'm wrong)
Order: Diptera (True Flies).
Size: 6-10mm.
Range: Throughout Canada and the United States.
Description: These insects are active on bright sunny days near human habitations; they are often seen around dog feces. Adults sip both plant and animal fluids. Females sometimes lay eggs on open wounds; they are among the first insects to arrive at a carcass. Larvae develop in rotting meat and pupate in the soil. This species has been used in "maggot therapy."
The funny thing is that I never witnessed any insect in or around "hotels" like this. Insects seem to distrust such human initiatives...
Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, TX
Insects were the first organisms on Earth to take to the air about 310 million years ago during the Late Carboniferous Period. Some paleontologists have suggested that the origin of winged insects is even older, in the Devonian Period (about 400 million years ago). This means the evolution of the first winged insects took place at about the same time that the first tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) abandoned the water for life on land.
The diversity of winged insects is evident all around as they can be found in essentially all terrestrial environments, and on all continents including Antartica. The advantages of flight over all other forms of locomotion gave rise to a sudden increase in the number and types of flying insect species and their worldwide dispersal. Of the 800,000 species of described insects on the planet, the vast majority are capable of flight. Although insect success can be attributed to numerous factors, arguably, the ability of flight is the most important. Birds and bats are the only other living animals capable of flight.
Hiding in the mountain alpine environments of the Rocky Mountains lives a flightless grasshopper (Melanoplus dodgei). It lives no where else in the world. It is not pretty or of any identified economic value. It goes unnoticed by nearly all humans that visit the mountain peaks and cared about by even fewer. Many of the current climate models show that Earth’s climate is warming at an alarming rate. If these models prove correct then those animals and plants that have no dispersal corridor for movement are likely to disappear in the next few decades. Two environments that offer no escape corridors (and thus most at risk) are the polar environments and mountain alpine environments. When these are subjected to a warming climate there is just no where for their specialized plants and animals to go. I do not know how bad global warming will get – but I doubt that humans will ever allow the Polar Bear to go extinct even if their habitat disappears. Even two-hundred years from now they will continue to be a draw at zoos. But what about Melanoplus dodgei and the countless other insignificant (from a human perspective) plants and animals that occur in alpine and polar environments? Female Melanoplus dodgei at 12,000 ft, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Beast flying aroun something stinky all the time. What would we do without them? Would be bored. HAHAHA
Never saw this kind of arthropod before... it's about 1 inch in length - any IDea?
(stitched from 2 pics to get the whole insect)
Olympus E-P1, AF-D Nikkor Macro 55mm f/2.8, manual focus
I saw the Cinnabar larva on this ragwort from some distance away then getting closer saw the ladybird, I had taken two or three shots then the shieldbug appeared from nowhere to make a trio. Ragwort is poisonous and the larva is able to cope with this and becomes poisonous itself hence the yellow and black colouring common danger warning in nature to potential predators. The ladybird would be in search for aphids and the shieldbug lives on plant juices, whether it can cope with ragwort I don't know. (See below for image of Cinnabar moth)