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Like this caterpillar changing to a butterfly, so is the old year becoming the new year! Again Happy New Year 2026!
Monarch caterpillar in its fifth stage of development.
The caterpillar goes through five major, distinct stages of growth and after each one, it molts. Each caterpillar, or instar, that molts is larger than the previous as it eats and store energy in the form of fat and nutrients to carry it through the nonfeeding pupal stage. 5th instar with the white spots visible on the prolegs.
The first instar caterpillar that emerges out of the egg is pale green and translucent. It lacks banding coloration or tentacles. The larvae or caterpillar eats its egg case and begins to feed on milkweed. It is during this stage of growth that the caterpillar begins to sequester cardenolides. The circular motion a caterpillar uses while eating milkweed prevents the flow of latex that could entrap it.
The second instar larva develops a characteristic pattern of white, yellow and black transverse bands. It is no longer translucent but is covered in short setae. Pairs of black tentacles (stinkhorns) begin to grow. One pair grows on the thorax and another pair on the abdomen.
The third instar larva has more distinct bands and the two pairs of tentacles become longer. Legs on the thorax differentiate into a smaller pair near the head and larger pairs further back. These third stage caterpillars began to eat along the leaf edges.
The fourth instar has a different banding pattern. It develops white spots on the prolegs near the back of the caterpillar.
The fifth instar larva has a more complex banding pattern and white dots on the prolegs, with front legs that are small and very close to the head. – Wikipedia
Eher in den Lack gefallen!
Die 218 435 erstrahlt seit ein paar Wochen im schönsten Verkehrsrot und ist daher trotz ihren LED Lichtern ein gern gesehener Gast an den IC Zügen im Allgäu.
Am 24.10.21 zog die Ulmer Glanzkiste den IC2084/85 und konnte von uns am Ruderatshofener Weiher festgehalten werden.
Auch im Allgäu wird es inzwischen langsam aber sicher Winter, was an dem Baum rechts im Bild schwer zu übersehen ist.
Apologies for my lack of commenting. Our son moves out this weekend and our daughter and partner move back home next weekend after giving up their flat to go travelling! So it's Mum and Dad removal services to the rescue!!
Have a good weekend everyone and thanks for all the lovely comments on my images.
One of my favourite songs ever
This painted and lacked wooden sculpture comes from China and has been made around 13th - 15th centuries.
Besides of the sculpture, you can read the following description : Lohans are followers of Buddha who have achieved spiritual perfection. Their task is to safeguard Buddhist doctrine until the Buddha of the Future appears. They do not live among people but as hermits in the mountains. They also possess supernatural powers, such as the ability to change size and to see and hear everything. There are eighteen different lohans.
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Rijksmuseum - Ajita le lohan
Cette sculpture en bois peint et laqué provient de Chine et a été réalisée aux environs des XIIIe - XV siècles.
A coté de la sculpture, on peut lire la description suivante : les lohans sont des disciples de Bouddha qui ont atteint la perfection spirituelle. Leur tâche est de sauvegarder la doctrine bouddhique jusqu'à l'apparition du Bouddha du futur. Ils ne vivent pas parmi les gens mais comme des ermites dans les montagnes. Ils possèdent également des pouvoirs surnaturels, tels que la capacité de changer de taille et de tout voir et tout entendre. Il existe dix-huit lohans différents.
A medium sized Woodpecker found in the Himalayan Belt and in a small pocket of South India. It is easily identified by its colors and size. Males are distinguished by a small red patch on their forehead which females lack.
These are commonly found in deciduous and mixed woodlands / forests, particularly those with abundant deadwood. It primarily forages for ants and termites, often feeding on the ground or probing into decaying wood. The bird is well-known for its melancholic, descending call and loud drumming used to establish territory.
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On a walk around the city catching up on happenings with a wonderful Flickr/Blip friend. October 24, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
Beautiful Blue sky over the mouth of Duffins creek flowing into Lake Ontario in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Pickering , Ontario , Canada , August 25. 2021
Shrubs
Oak tree
Large Oak tree
Trees
Sticks
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Tall grasses
Orange yellow Tamarack tree
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Lake Ontario waterfront trail
Black eye Susan’s
Colourful bird houses
A fallen tree
Monotropa a plant that lacks chlorophyll
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Reflections
Garter snake
Large mushroom
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Duffins creek
Discovery bay
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August 2021
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Mouth of Duffins creek
white Deadnetles
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Unique shaped tree
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
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Large tree
This Buzzard lacks the dark necklace of feathers around the chest and is a much lighter bird than normal even for a Buzzard .This image taken at Romney Marsh near Lydd
European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) known simply as the Robin or Robin Redbreast in Ireland.
Robins are found throughout Ireland, and are common in towns and cities as well as in the country.
Unusual among birds the female robin also sings, and the robin is the only bird in Ireland that keeps singing right through the winter. Adult male and female Robins look identical, but immature birds lack the red breast and have spotted brown plumage with a scalloped golden pattern on the breast.
Robins are wonderful opportunists, and take full advantage of their proximity to people to supplement their diet – particularly during the winter months. When the days are cold and short, Robins will be among the first to visit our bird-tables and feeders to boost the meagre pickings available in nature. At any time of the year they will flit restlessly around gardeners feet as they turn the soil, eager to cash in on a free meal of earthworms and insect larvae. Robins get bolder with repeated offers of food, and some become so tame that they will even enter houses or feed from the hand.
Irelands Wildlife by Calvin Jones
Well, considering a real lack of sleep, it felt great to be out and about on such a beautiful morning after all the over stuffing at Christmas.
Couldn't have asked for any better conditions to be honest. Not much wind, no ice, no rain, a few clouds and some really nice sunshine. What a way to recharge the batteries before returning to work.
In a doctor's office, to me very gloomy and a little scary, lack of colour and warmth.
HBM 😊😊😍
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
The lack of monophyly in the earlier starling genera has led to this species being placed variously under genus Sturnia, Sturnus and Temenuchus in the past (Zuccon et al., 2006) and studies have suggested the reuse of an old name Temenuchus for members of this clade. Later studies have suggested placement in the genus Sturnia.
There are two subspecies of the chestnut-tailed starling:
S. m. malabarica: North-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and north-western Burma
S. m. nemoricola: Southern China, Taiwan, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia
Both the nominate subspecies and nemoricola are known to perform some poorly understood movements (e.g. S. m. malabarica has been recorded from Pakistan and in central and southern India).
The taxon blythii is now usually (e.g. Rasmussen & Anderton, 2005) considered a valid species, the Malabar white-headed starling or white-headed myna (Sturnia blythii), instead of a subspecies of Sturnia malabarica. As S. m. malabarica only visits the range of blythii during the non-breeding period (winter), the two are not known to interbreed. However a molecular study found the genetic divergence between S. m. blythii not significantly greater (between 0.2% and 0.8%) than between the sisters S. m. malabarica of northern India and S. m. nemoricola of Burma and Vietnam
Sam's Point, Eufaula lake...Lack of rain and the resulting low water levels exposed these "skeletons" where the South Canadian River runs into Eufaula Lake. The light was great so I was scrambling around trying to find a decent composition. Seems like I do lots of scrambling around hunting for comps when the light gets good, almost none of my shots are pre-planned. I usually just shoot what I can find where I am at the time. Thanks for taking the time to look and have a great week!!!
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Unless we step into the uncharted territory of the gender revolution, we know exactly where we will be regressing. An all-powerful State that infantilises us, interferes in all our decisions for our own good and—under the pretext of protecting us—keeps us in a childish state of ignorance, fear of punishment and exclusion. The special treatment until now reserved for women, with shame as the primary tool for ensuring their isolation, passivity and lack of protest, could now be extended to all. To understand the mechanics of how women have been made to feel inferior, and induced to willingly maintain themselves in this state, is to understand how the entire population is kept under control. Capitalism is an egalitarian religion, in the sense that it demands general submission, making everyone feel trapped—as all women are.
Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory
This Grey Heron seen in Senegal, West Africa, on 19th January 2023, is so pale in comparison with the birds we see in the UK. It also lacks the black of European birds.
Many thanks for the visits, faves and comments. Cheers
Grey-crowned Babbler
Scientific Name: Pomatostomus temporalis
Description: The Grey-crowned Babbler is the largest of Australia's four babbler species. It is dark brown-grey above, with a distinctive grey crown stripe and a dark face mask that contrasts with a white eyebrow. The chin and throat are white, running into a pale grey lower breast. It has a long, curved bill, short rounded wings with cinnamon brown wing patches and a long tail tipped white. The eye is pale yellow in adults. There is a darker-coloured subspecies, rubeculus, in north-western Australia (often called the Red-breasted Babbler), that has a rufous lower breast and darker crown stripe. The Grey-crowned Babbler is a noisy and gregarious bird, usually found in small groups of four to twelve, and is often seen on the ground or in low trees. It is sometimes called the Yahoo, after one of its calls.
Similar species: The Grey-crowned Babbler lacks the dark crown of other babblers and has a yellow rather than a dark eye.
Distribution: The Grey-crowned Babbler is widespread throughout north-western, northern, central and eastern Australia. It is also found in Papua New Guinea.
Habitat: The Grey-crowned Babbler is found in open forests and woodlands, favouring inland plains with an open shrub layer, little ground cover and plenty of fallen timber and leaf litter. May be seen along roadsides and around farms. In south-east Melbourne, small populations survive on golf courses.
Seasonal movements: Sedentary.
Feeding: Grey-crowned Babblers feed on insects and other invertebrates and sometimes eat seeds. They forage in groups of two to fifteen birds on the ground among leaf litter, around fallen trees and from the bark of shrubs and trees (they tend to use trees more than other babblers).
Breeding: Grey-crowned Babblers live and breed in co-operative territorial groups of two to fifteen birds (usually four to twelve). Groups normally consist of a primary breeding pair along with several non-breeding birds (sometimes groups may contain two breeding pairs or two females that both breed). Most members of the group help to build nests, with the primary female contributing the most effort. Two types of nest are built: roost-nests (usually larger and used by the whole group) and brood-nests (for the breeding females), and often old nest sites are renovated and re-used from year to year. The large domed nests are placed in a tree fork 4 m - 7 m high and are made of thick sticks with projections that make a hood and landing platform for the entrance tunnel. The nest chamber is lined with soft grass, bark, wool and feathers. The brooding female (sometimes more than one) is fed by the other group members and all help to feed the nestlings. Larger groups tend to raise more young, and two broods are usually raised per season.
Calls: Loud scolding and chattering calls: 'wee-oo'. Also distinctive 'ya-hoo' duet by breeding female ('yah') and male ('ahoo') repeated six to eight times.
Minimum Size: 25cm
Maximum Size: 29cm
Average size: 27cm
Average weight: 81g
Breeding season: July to February
Clutch Size: Usually two to three, up to five if more than one female.
Incubation: 23 days
Nestling Period: 23 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar
Einen kräftigen Farbakzent in der vorfrühlingshaft kahlen Landschaft setzt aktuell die 183 005 der Länderbahn. Folgenden Hintergrund hat die auffäliige Beklebung in pink und lila sowie die Umbenennung in "Alexa": Einmal feiert die Länderbahn ihr gutes Abschneiden bei einem Ranking zum Thema Gleichstellung und Diversity. Und zweitens möchte man aufgrund Personalmangels auch mehr Frauen für die Arbeit bei der Eisenbahn begeistern. Am 16. März 2020 konnte ich die Lok vor dem ALX 79858 von Hof nach München HBF bei Oberschleissheim fotografieren.
The 183 005 of the Länderbahn currently sets a strong colour accent in the pre-spring landscape. The background to the striking pink and purple livery and the renaming to "Alexa" is as follows: once the Länderbahn is celebrating its good results in a ranking on equality and diversity. And secondly, due to a lack of personnel, the company also wants to attract more women to work for the railways. On March 16, 2020 I was able to take a picture of the locomotive in front of the ALX 79858 from Hof to Munich main station near Oberschleissheim.
Die Kathedrale Málagas wurde von den christlichen Eroberern ab 1528 über einer Moschee erbaut. Obwohl in den ursprünglichen Plänen zwei Türme geplant worden waren, wurde später aus Geldmangel nur einer vervollständigt, was der Kathedrale, die volkstümlich „La Manquita“ („kleine einarmige Dame“) heißt, ihren Namen einbrachte.
Starting in 1528, the Cathedral of Málaga was built by the Christian conquerors on top of a mosque. Even though two towers had been foreseen in the initial planning, only one was build due to lack of money. This unfinished state has led to the Cathedral being called "La Manquita", meaning in English, "The One-Armed Lady".
Quelle: Wikipedia
I apologise for the lack of comments. I am kind of busy these days...
Catch up soon... Thanks for looking ... :-)
New blog: I was looking for an affordable action camera and this is it. This camera is everything I would expect it to be.
REVIEW: Sunplus SP5K Series
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A striking gray, yellow, and green bushshrike with a dark eye, an orange chest, and a distinctive yellow forehead and short eyebrow. The juvenile lacks an eyebrow. Singles and pairs occasionally join mixed-species flocks in thornveld and broadleaf woodland, riparian forest, and thickets. The species creeps slowly through the mid-canopy of trees, hunting insects and small vertebrates, and is often first detected by its loud ringing “what-to-tooo-dooo” song and scolding “skeeeeet” calls and clicks. The larger Gray-headed Bushshrike differs from Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike by having a more robust bill, a pale-yellow eye, and no eyebrows. (eBird)
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Another find in the archive. Heading out from Accra towards Lake Volta, we stopped along the river to see what could be seen. Well, this beautiful bushshrike was high up in a tree. The first of just two of these birds seen on the trip.
Akwamu Road, Ghana. February 2019.
Ashanti African Tours.
For Macro Monday - Flame
Not really what I wanted but a lack of time sent me to the pilot light of our heater for this weeks challenge.
This Southern Toad has some interesting, and very symmetrical melanin (and lack thereof) pigment. I just built a new pond in my backyard in Gainesville, Florida, and the second night after putting it in the ground and filling it with water this toad leapt in. I saw it floating in the water from my office window and immediately thought that a frog had died overnight because all I saw was pink legs (yes I do have egress options and exposed items for animals to escape or stay out of the water). I went outside with my skimmer net and when I approached, this toad dove to the bottom. I was perplexed and silent at first, but soon realized what I was looking at and several unbridled expletives slipped from my mouth loud enough my neighbors probably heard. I have never seen a toad like this anywhere and may never again.
The stark shapes and lack of colour in this farm building cauight my eye (yes this is a colour image). This was taken straight into the blizzard; most of my attempts to shoot this featured my hand or cleaning cloth!
Bald Eagle.
A large blackish bird being 30 to 31 inches tall with a 6 to 7 foot wingspan. It is distinguished by it's white head and tail with a heavy yellow bill. Young Bald Eagles lack the white head and tail and resemble an adult Golden Eagle but are variably marked with white and have a more massive black bill.
They inhabit lakes, rivers, marshes and seacoasts.
Though previously more widespread they currently range from Alaska east to Newfoundland and south to California east through the Great Lakes and to Virginia. They can also be found in Arizona and along the Gulf Coast including Florida.
Erie Marsh Preserve, Monroe County, Michigan.
Many suffer in the short, dark days, through lack of light and get the blues. Well, the season of lights is here!
Violets, the flowers, leaves and roots of various Viola species are used for medicinal purposes, being rich in vitamins A and C.
They also contain a type of antioxidant.
And they are edible,
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This seemed like an especially chubby individual. Maybe feasting on bugs (which we seem to have no lack of)?
North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains, California.
Aug. 8, 2021