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Comma butterfly spent quite a bit of time in the garden, before fluttering onto my little finger! A little pause I didn't mind holding a while longer! I almost forgot it was Wednesday (all these spider images floating around) HWW Hope it's a good one for you all ;0)
Lift up your candle dress
Unweave your nylon spine
In velvet and in onions
You will soon be mine
I am your humble servant
Madam as you see
Tonight I am determined
You will lie along with me
You are an insect mother
With a black shiny head
That parts your cloak to open
Human you upon the bed
You are an insect mother
I your jammy son
And now we've found each other
There is nowhere else to run
Lift up your candle dress
Unweave your nylon spine
In velvet and in onions
You will soon be mine
Spotted this ladybird resting on an aquilegia leaf in my garden. Ready to take flight with its wings beginning to open I had to act fast. A few images and it had flown.
Insects possess segmented bodies supported by an exoskeleton, a hard outer covering made mostly of chitin. The segments of the body are organized into three distinctive but interconnected units, or tagmata; a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. The head supports a pair of sensory antennae, a pair of compound eyes, one to three simple eyes ("ocelli") and three sets of variously modified appendages that form the mouthparts. The thorax has six segmented legs (one pair each for the prothorax, mesothorax and the metathorax segments making up the thorax) and two or four wings (if present in the species). The abdomen (made up of eleven segments some of which may be reduced or fused) has most of the digestive, respiratory, excretory and reproductive internal structures.
Camera: Canon EOS 50D
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV
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Another of the mass of insects emerging at Startops Reservoir, Tring.
This is a live insect taken handheld by laying low on the reservoir bank just keeping my lens off the water. Fortunately it was a windless day.
Searching on internet it's a Rove Beetle (Ocypus ophthalmicus) original from Europe and Asia, but I'm in Cental America. How did it get here?
~~Chez certains insectes, les œufs et les larves doivent être déposés précisément sur leurs ressources alimentaires. La femelle est donc très sélective lors de la ponte.
Chez certaines, elles pondent les œufs de manière aléatoire sur le substrat. Chez d'autres, Elles les déposent en masse sur le feuillage ou les posent individuellement sur le plant. D'autres pondent à l'intérieur des racines, des tiges et à travers des troncs d'arbres à l'aide d'un organe spécialisé appelé ovipositeur.
Les mantes, les blattes et certains orthoptères pondent leurs œufs en masse dans une capsule protectrice appelée oothèque. Cette mousse de protéines forme une carapace solide assurant une protection contre d'éventuels prédateurs.
Yes, so we try to return to our relationship again... me, my garden and its inhabitants. I had an unfortunate fall about a month ago and hurt my shoulder badly. Now the damage from that accident has recovered to the extent that I can comfortably hold my camera.
A stekel of some kind (?) is the first individual to my humble delight to model like this after the new reckoning of time...
I've never seen a green ant before. I found it on a leaf of soka .
This ant is as big as a regular black ant.
It is resting on a Yellowbell, a large Texas Native shrub. For Macro Mondays theme "Garden Macro". Many thanks to iofdi for the ID.
I stopped by the lake yesterday in our smokey environment (thus the coloring). The smoke must have driven the insects lower, as the swallows, and this hummingbird, were having a grand time with the selection of tasty treats!