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Arthur, our pet African Grey, posing whimsically for the camera...
He's got lots of personality and he fills our lives with joy and laughter!
Soldier Beetle
The soldier beetles, Cantharidae, are relatively soft-bodied, straight sided beetles, related to the Lampyridae or firefly family, but being unable to produce light. They are cosmopolitan in distribution. One common British species is bright red, reminding people of the red coats of soldiers, hence the common name. A secondary common name is leatherwing, obtained from the texture of the wing covers.
Historically, these beetles were placed in a superfamily "Cantharoidea", which has been subsumed by the superfamily Elateroidea; the name is still sometimes used as a rankless grouping, including the families Cantharidae, Drilidae, Lampyridae, Lycidae, Omalisidae, Omethidae, Phengodidae (which includes Telegeusidae), and Rhagophthalmidae.
Soldier beetles are highly desired by gardeners as biological control agents of a number of pest insects. The larvae tend to be dark brown or gray, slender and wormlike with a rippled appearance due to pronounced segmentation. They consume grasshopper eggs, aphids, caterpillars and other soft bodied insects, most of which are pests.
Louison Thistle --> Blythe MOD MOLLY
Bonjour Blythe du 5 juillet 2010: bonjourblythe.tumblr.com/post/772311976
my husband and I went to the Safari Park in Escondido, California, (4/3/12) to see the Butterfly Jungle butterfly exhibit.
I got some film back and this is the "end of the roll" shot. I love his little peeking face.
Film. Kodak 200 (expired).
Took a bunch of these fun shots with my wife last weekend. Angle/preservative needs to be a little better. Will fix it in the next ones we take :)
We played what seems like countless hours of peek a boo this weekend. It never ceases to put a smile on her face!
DSC_5061.....The sun finally making it through the low level clouds hits the formations at Sunrise Point, Bryce Canyon National Park.
We played what seems like countless hours of peek a boo this weekend. It never ceases to put a smile on her face!
A shot of one of the cows in a field off our driveway, peeking through the fence (borders on left and right). I quite liked this shot, thinking it was quite cute, and I liked the framing of the fence, but it was really sunny, and I'd completely overexposed the background... so I fiddled to see what I could do this with it. I ended up converting to b&w and applying a sepia tone, which was surprisingly close to the colour of the cow anyway, and (I think) this makes the burnt out area look intentional :D
The Squirrel ran up the tree when the dog got let outside. He had been eating in the bird feeder again.
Village kids peeked inside the hut were we visited our sponsor child in the desert outside Bikaner, Rajasthan, India.