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Exposition "Carapaces et sortilèges"
Sculptures d'insectes de François Chapelain-Midy
Serres du Jardin des Plantes
Octobre 2019
Spotted this beauty flying at low level and then it landed and started to egg lay, switching positions and directions for about 10 minutes.
Ephermeropteran (Mayfly). The name ephemeroptora comes from the Greek for short lived (ephemeral) as the bugs only last a few hiours to a day.
I wish it was this sort of weather today. This fly was basking on the warm brick next to my front door.
HFDF!
This "obelisk" position is thought to help regulate body temperature by reducing exposure to the sun.
Spotted this on my Magnolia tree. I'll be glad when my cataract surgery is done. Hard to nail focus.
While cutting down buckthorn in my yard I inadvertently disturbed a bee (honeybee?) swarm. I abandoned the area quickly without getting stung. When I returned in the cool evening after sunset to retrieve my tools the bees were clustered in an approximately pizza-size mass on the ground. I doubt that there are any managed hives in this suburban residential neighborhood, thus it's a bit of a mystery where they came from.
Woodridge (DuPage Co.), Illinois