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Had an unexpected visitor in the garden the other day - a red admiral butterfly. Natural light/fill flash
The heat has brought he flies out, snapped these on and around the back door. Don't even think it...
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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!
I souped up Week 7's SOD post and bumped it to the top of my blog, right above the humor post from earlier this week. Still playing catch-up with the next weeks' writeups, and also have some other stuff coming. For now, enjoy a gorgeous queen butterfly, captured at Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
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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 cicada has stopped singing for this year -- just got too cold. Their song will be welcomed next year -- as they always are. Swamp Cicada (Tibicen chloromera), Mt. Pleasant, Maryland
An insect seen on a dew-covered leaf in the mountains of Western Virginia, near the W. VA border.
Taken using a Minolta Z1 using its internal flash and macro.
So I needed to make something today.. I started off quite ambitious and then quickly turned to making a $2.50 extension tube so I could take some macro shots.
Next to figure out some lighting that doesn't give me flare...
Was well pleased to get this one although it's showing a bit of wear to the wings. Easily mistaken for Southern hawker. Couple of differences are the Common has a saffron yellow costa, (Leading edge of the wing) and the blue spots at the base of the abdomen never fully join as do the Southern hawker's
Crowle moor, Lincolnshire
Beautiful orange butterfly which was willing to pose :))
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As I was watering the garden the other day I noticed this little fellow nearby, and when I looked closer, I saw he was holding a drop of water. I didn't know spiders did that. Not the sharpest shot; hard to shoot macro when the wind is blowing the web, but I couldn't resist the shot of him holding that drop of water.