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This flat-bodied critter blends so well against the green background. The brown patches on its legs and the ridge of its abdomen mimics the dry portion of leaves. This further facilitates its camouflage.
Coleoptera ( /koʊliːˈɒptərə/) is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek κολεός, koleos, meaning "sheath"; and πτερόν, pteron, meaning "wing", thus "sheathed wing". The reason for the name is that most beetles have two pairs of wings, the front pair, the "elytra", being hardened and thickened into a sheath-like, or shell-like, protection for the rear pair, and for the rear part of the beetle's body. The superficial consistency of most beetles' morphology, in particular their possession of elytra, has long suggested that the Coleoptera are monophyletic, but there is growing evidence that this is unjustified, there being arguments for example, in favour of allocating the current suborder Adephaga their own order, or very likely even more than one.
taken at kodiang, kedah
Bumblebees of the same species come in very different sizes. On the left is a small worker female, on the right a large and rather plump male, both of the Buff-tailed bumblebee species.
Lille arbejder og stor han af Mørk jordhumle (Bombus terrestris).
Baby bee emergin directly in center. The golden-colored cells are full of pollen, which the baby bees eat. It's pure protein and dang tasty!
The next several shots are the studies of bees collecting pollen from our front yard flowers. It turned out that several thousand bees nested in the walls of the house that we lived in. After some amateur attempts to get rid of these bees a part of the bee hive (about 800-1000 bees) migrated into our living room where over 7-10 days it succumbed to poison that the bees have ingested. This experience was second to none...
One would never imagine anything like that looking at this peaceful shot of a worker bee...
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Darter dragonfly on my finger. Having got the dragonfly used to me being there, I persuaded it to walk onto my finger where it stayed for about 3 minutes whilst I took photographs. Natural light
This is called a Green Bee and yet it is really a wasp. Note the three eyes on top of head and wing shape. Does anyone know if the eyes on top of head are actually vision capeable?
I just finished looking these questions up and here are the answers: This is not a Green Bee - I couldn't find this one - probably a sweet bee? Bees also have the three simple eyes on top of heads which are called ocilli and the large compound eyes on sides of head. Yes the eyes on top of head can see. I guess this is where the old saying came from that you have eyes in back of your head? Bees, wasps and flying ants all have similar body parts. Flies have very different parts.