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Shield bug on sea holly - the hot summer seems to have accelerated the dragonfly season - there were vey few on the wing yesterday and we were reduced to taking pictures of shield bugs which love to hide in the (now dry) sea holly flower heads
Went out into the field yesterday to shoot the sunrise. And then I found this lovely bugs....
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Bug hotel in the Woodland.
Create a bug hotel to provide hidey-holes for creatures galore. Building a bug hotel (also known as a wildlife hotel or stack) in your garden can provide a safe hideaway for wildlife and help make use of your garden waste. A well-built hotel can shelter anything from hedgehogs to toads, solitary bees to bumblebees, and ladybirds to woodlice. You can build your bug hotel at any time of year, but you might have the most natural materials such as straw, dry grass and hollow plant stems in autumn.
Jewel Bug (Chrysocoris)
Scutelleridae is a family of true bugs. They are commonly known as jewel bugs or metallic shield bugs due to their often
brilliant coloration. They are also known as shield-backed bugs due to the enlargement of the last section of their thorax
into a continuous shield over the abdomen and wings.[1] This latter characteristic distinguishes them from most other families
within Heteroptera, and may lead to misidentification as a beetle rather than a bug. These insects feed on plant juices
from a variety of different species, including some commercial crops. Closely related to stink bugs, they may also produce
an offensive odour when disturbed. There are around 450 species worldwide..
L to R from back to front: (row 1) Gentleman Ghost, Pied Piper, Bug-Eyed Bandit, Mr. Element, Samuroid, Turtle, Murmur, Gorilla Grodd, Shade, The Top, Weather Wizard.
(Row 2) Icicle Jr., Icicle Sr., Frank Miller Flash, Heatwave, Captain Cold, Mirror Master, Trickster II, Trickster I, Plastique, Captain Boomerang.
(Row 3) Cobalt Blue, Black Racer, Black Flash, Daniel West, Professor Zoom, Reverse Flash, Dark Flash, Savitar, Inertia, Negative Flash.
(Row 4) Jesse Quick, Liberty Belle, Johnny Quick, Jay Garrick, Iris West, Barry Allen, Wally West, Linda Park, Wallace West, Impulse, Hot Pursuit, Max Mercury, XS
And there it is! All of the figures I have made over the past month or so! Thank you again for all the support along the way! As I said in my Wally post yesterday, it is really awesome to write Flash stories again! Be on the lookout for more things from me!
© Jim Gilbert 2010 all rights reserved
Decided to go out in the yard and see if this was possible.
Front yard, Bernardsville, NJ
I was testing my latest home-made softbox and overdid the rim lighting (I'm trying to come up with a way of not having to lug lots of supporting equipment for the flashes around). I rather like the end result though, even if there isn't much detail in the insect's face. This guy was very tiny - his head was about 1mm wide. I chased him around his leaf holding the camera in one hand and a 430EX flashgun in the other.
Canon 30D with MP-E65mm lens, 1.4x converter 430EX flash and ST-E2 IR transmitter
1/250 sec @ f/16 ISO 100
My favorite weather
Has come out today
It begged me
To come out to play
Please don't bug me
Please go away
I have a date
With a beautiful day.
They weren't functional, but Zingers had full-scale engines. The one on the bug was topped by two superchargers! It has a wheelie bar and brake parachute at the back.
This thing is as long as my little finger and its brothers/sisters are trying to eat all of my herb garden.