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Photo made with Nokia Lumia 1020. This little guy was walkin very fast and it was hard to get sharp images. And animals was not harmed in photo session, as always.
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Monarch butterfly caterpillar
Chicago, IL USA
Wacker Drive is a major street in downtown Chicago that runs next to the Chicago River. Part of it is lined with cement planters that are quite pretty. This year, the city included milkweeds in the plantings. I'm sure they did this to attract Monarchs and they were very successful. The planters are full of Monarch caterpillars and chrysalises. Not something you expect to see on a busy street in downtown Chicago.
saw this unique very small insect and found it so beautiful. it isn't easy to photograph as it keeps on moving about. it is slightly smaller than the tip of a pencil eraser. anyone can assist me identifying this insect?
Rubber rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus), which in Latin means a heavy-scented golden shrub, blooms in the fall in Zion Canyon. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are one of the insects attracted to this beautiful and fragrant plant. NPS Photo/Christopher Gezon
Or is it a millipede? I can never remember the difference. The dogs found this on the floor and were poking their noses onto it.
“Poekilocerus pictus belonging to Family Pyrogomorphinae (known for cryptic as well as bright colours hence called Gaudy Grasshoppers are also known for “Spear” shaped heads) is commonly known as Ak Grasshopper (and one of the many Painted Grasshoppers), and is one of the most colorful grasshoppers of India. The nymphs display spots of varied colours from yellow, orange to blue and green. The adults show yellow and blue striped on head and thorax, a bright red abdomen, green-yellow forewings and red hind wings which are seen only in flight. The adults grow to about 60mm and are capable of good flight.
The adults are generally seen post-monsoon and, if conditions are favorable, they swarm. The food plant for this is Calotropis sp., especially C. procera, however it is known to attack many crops (including C. gigantea – Giant Milkweed). The color in nymphs as well as adults is bright and warning and is explained due to the presence of toxic alkaloids present in Calotropis they feed on.
The eggs are laid in “pods” (each pod contains 70 – 200 eggs) during the monsoon months June to August, and the nymphs hatch around September. The nymphs are usually seen near Calotropis plants, and by October the adults are seen specifically on the food plant. I have no records of finding it in the months after monsoon, however literature says that eggs laid in the month of September to November that hatch in April – May, here the incubation period is longer than during monsoon months due to, perhaps, climatic conditions.
According to literature, the adults are also known to turn cannibalistic even in the presence of ample food – for reasons unknown!”
Arilus Cristatus (aka - Wheel Bugs) They look like something out of the movie "Alien"! They have red antennae and one long fang that can administer a painful bite. Don't touch!
Something I've always wanted to see. This giant, gorgeous girl would take a respite every time I took a photo, pretend to be doing nothing, groom a tad, then continue to drag her paralyzed victim to its death chamber where she proceeded to deposit a larva on the spider's abdomen, which would subsequently consume the still live, but paralyzed, spider. AWESOME stuff!