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Male Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis). This is probably the most common pond dragonfly in my area during the summer season. This male's wings are locked in a downward position where he has built up and stored energy in the connective tissue in his thorax so that in a split second he can spring from his perch on passing prey. Wilde Lake, Maryland
about 10 cm long
from Reserva Mangaloma:
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Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids or bush-crickets. There are more than 6,400 species. Part of the suborder Ensifera, it's the only family in the superfamily Tettigonioidea. The name is derived from the genus Tettigonia, first described by Linnaeus in 1748. They are also known as long-horned grasshoppers, although they are more closely related to crickets and weta than to grasshoppers. Many tettigoniids exhibit mimicry and camouflage, commonly with shapes and colors similar to leaves.
I used to chase away the bugs,
To Take Photos of the Flowers
Now I search for Flowers with Bugs
Once my nemesis,
Now my passion.
Understanding mother nature,
Includes her miniature beasties.
On the way to Oakhammock Marsh in Manitoba I stopped for a break on the 700 km day trip. I saw this dragonfly on an outside windowsill to the restroom with several other varieties but I liked this one because of it's position on the orange frame next to the green partition. I tried to ID it but couldn't find it in my new field guide so if anybody knows what it is I would love to know.
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Migrant hawker dragonfly. This and the previous hawker were dog-fighting at one stage in my front garden. Natural light
Digger wasp on my finger. Just stuck my finger under it's nose on the sun chair and it happily walked on and had a look around
Pentax K-x, Sigma 105 Macro, July 10, 2011.
Je viens de découvrir qu'il s'agit d'une Chryside enflammée (Chrysis ignata), également nommée guêpe coucou, qui parasite les nids d'abeilles solitaires.
Jewel wasp sequence. I've seen this jewel wasp - Pseudomalus auratus - several times on the leaves of an abutilon. I watched it for quite a while...
This large ichnuemon wasp bores deep into wood to lay its eggs on the larvae of wood-wasps. It is one of Europe's largest ichnuemons. A wood-wasp has layed its eggs deep inside the wood where it should be safe from predators and parasites, but as usual in nature, something amazing like this ichnuemon, with an incredibly long ovipositor (for drilling into wood and laying eggs through) evolves and can find and exploit even the most difficultly placed prey.
Due to the cloudy and breezy weather, this little one posed for a bit, while I practised about with DOF and POV's. I am nowhere near even remotely close to ID'ing Butterflies yet. Another area I wish to learn more about this year. So any help would be gratefully recieved :)
A female Alaptus sp. found in the garden birch tree. Most likely an Alaptus schmitzi, but keying brings it to A.eriococci - a species that is only found on the other side of the Atlantic. The similarity between these two species means the greatest likelihood is that this one is A.schmitzi with a longer antennal scape. But ...