Scorpions
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It was my first meeting with this strange species, and I had only one chance to shoot it since it flew away when I pressed the trigger.
The impressive sting at its tail is indeed a male genital bulb, hence completely harmless for humans...
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Scientific name: Panorpa communis.
The scorpion fly, as its name suggests, has a curved 'tail' that looks like a sting. It is, in fact, the males' claspers for mating. It is yellow and black, with a long 'beak'. Look for it in gardens and woods. Info: The Wildlife Trusts.
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This land monitor (varanus bengalensis) raised its head nicely as I got closer to it. The animal's snout is a little muddy from foraging - its diet is varied, including mice, ants, fruit, frogs, spiders, scorpions and beetles. Photographed in Yala, near Kirinda, Sri Lanka.
Dominated by a bunch of Daffodils ..Myosotis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. In the northern hemisphere they are colloquially denominated forget-me-nots or Scorpion grasses...
Despite that rather vicious-looking tip to the abdomen in the male, these spectacular, large insects are quite harmless
This scorpion, seen on the island of Samos, Greece, is thought to be Mesobuthus gibbosus. Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs and are easily recognized by the pair of grasping pedipalps and the narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back, ending with a venomous stinger.
Amed, se situe sur la côte est de Bali, C'est un endroit réputé pour faire de la plongée et du snorkeling. C'est là que je me suis fait piquer par un scorpion. Eh bien vous savez quoi, ,,,,,,,le scorpion est mort !
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The scorpion fly, as its name suggests, has a curved 'tail' that looks like a sting. It is, in fact, the males' claspers for mating. It is yellow and black, with a long 'beak'. Look for it in gardens and woods.
The scorpion fly is a strange-looking insect that is found in gardens and hedgerows, and along woodland edges, particularly among Stinging nettles and bramble. It has a long, beak-like projection from its head that is uses to feed. It scavenges on dead insects and frequently steals the contents of spiders' webs. It lives up to its name by sporting a scorpion-like tail, which the male uses in courtship displays. Adults usually mate at night, but mating can be a dangerous game for the male, who might easily be killed by the female. So he presents her with a nuptial gift of a dead insect or a mass of saliva to placate her - the equivalent of a box of chocolates! The resulting eggs are laid in the soil and the emerging larvae live and pupate at the soil surface.
The scorpion fly has a black-and-yellow body, a reddish head with a long beak, dark patches on the wings, and a scorpion-like tail which does not sting (the male has two claspers at the end for mating). There is three species of scorpion fly that live in the UK, which are difficult to tell apart.
Distribution
Widespread.
Habitats
Scorpion flies belong to an ancient order of insects known as 'Mecoptera' which includes about 550 species worldwide. Mecoptera can be traced back to the Permian period, more than 250 million years ago, and are likely ancestors of butterflies and flies.
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Air-to-air image of the Textron Scorpion over the sea off the Cornish coast.
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Scorpion Gulch is an old abandoned store at South Mountain Park in Phoenix, Arizona. This rock wall building no longer has a roof.
This was a new beastie for me, both to see and to photograph. I don't think I'll forget it in a hurry
Taken at Tucklesholme Nature Reserve.
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If ever there were a creature that looked like it was designed by committee, it must be this alien looking insect. Crowle Moors, Lincolnshire.
I've been finding out a bit more about these amazing looking insects. Though I haven't yet managed to get a shot that does the tail justice.
From the Wildlife Trust's page:
The scorpion fly is a strange looking insect which is found in gardens, hedgerows and woodland edges, particularly amongst nettles and Bramble. It has a long beak-like projection from its head that is uses to feed, scavenging on dead insects and frequently stealing the contents of spider's webs. It lives up to its name by sporting a scorpion-like tail, which the male uses in courtship displays. Adults usually mate at night, but mating can be a dangerous game for the male, who might easily be killed by the female. So he presents her with a nuptial gift of a dead insect or a mass of saliva to placate her - the equivalent of a box of chocolates! The resulting eggs are laid in the soil and the emerging larvae live and pupate at the soil surface.
Taken in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
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Turkey
The Panorpa aspoeki group (or species group) is predominately found in Turkey. While identification keys for the group are lacking, researchers rely on detailed morpholoigal analysis of the male genital structures and specific features like the caudal recess on the subgenital plate, to differentiate species.
Which means we will never know. !!!!!!
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