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Ladybugs appear as half-spheres, tiny, spotted, round or oval-shaped domes. They have short legs and antennae.
Their distinctive spots and attractive colors are meant to make them unappealing to predators. Ladybugs can secrete a fluid from joints in their legs which gives them a foul taste. Their coloring is likely a reminder to any animals that have tried to eat their kind before: "I taste awful." A threatened ladybug may both play dead and secrete the unappetizing substance to protect itself. animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/ladybug/
Spotted this lady on our cucumber vine...
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September 5, 2015
very colorful specimen showing purple, green, and even a hot pink sheen when the light hit it right; Wells, York County, Maine
This large white butterfly was photographed at butterfly world in edinburgh, home to many foreign species.
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).
another gothic looking creature, completely blending to the underneath of a branch and required the very sharp eyes of the guide to point it to us. this species have very strange orange spikes on its back. this shot even captured some cob-web on its pair of "horns" at the front of the head.
updated:
this species have been identified as a rare male Parectatosoma species endemic in Madagascar and not yet described, based on emails sent to me by various experts. glad that i had a chance to see such an amazing creature.