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I found this bug in my yard, perhaps it is a stink bug, I really do not know. Thanks to my friend Christine and a check with Google I now know this is a Crusader bug
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*Bug buddies*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
featuring: ImpyDimpy & Lovey
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Lami is wearing:
[IMP] Spooky Fitted Cap & [IMP] Bugs are Fun
Shown, but not worn: [IMP] "Sad Boi" Fitted Cap
All can be found at the ImpyDimpy main store
Pose: Lovey- Walking Pose Set
@Roselline Kids Event
25th Dec
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Full credits here: babilleuad.blogspot.com/2023/12/bug-buddies.html
A 150mm macro shot of this bug moving across some fallen stone work at Ta Prohm. I love the bokeh on this shot.
Olympus E-M1
OLYMPUS M.14-150mm F4.0-5.6 II
Aperture Æ’/5.6
Focal length 150.0 mm
Shutter 1/400
ISO 500
This bug is being bugged (by me). I'm trying to hold the camera still but I guess my hands were shaking bad, thus, it's not that good of a macro shot.
"BUGGED" is about AGGRAVATION.
IT'S ABOUT BEING HASSLED and HOUNDED and BITCHED AT. It's about every little AND BIG PROBLEM that continuously shadows us during our lives.
Like the buzzing of a mosquito in your ear at night, these problems and hassles and often, PEOPLE ... will not leave us alone! Thus, we are "BUGGED!"
Ambush bugs
Bluff Spring Fen, Elgin IL USA
I think ambush bugs are fascinating. They're like tiny armored vehicles or mini-dinosaurs.
On a hot day, I saw this beautiful insect. Sitting in the sun, on a dandelion. I think, it's a beautiful picture with the colors of the background.
It's well into autumn, but the garden is still full of flora and fauna. There are lots of wasps still flying around and the shield bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidalis) also seems pretty active; it must have fallen from the nearby hawthorn bush and onto this globe thistle.
Daughter finally got brave enough to hold this cool looking bug which seemed to enjoy being perched on her finger and soaking up the sun. :D
This follows on from a previous post from the bug hotel in our garden. Here is one of the solitary bees hard at work to seal a tube after laying her eggs. The brood chamber will contain a number of eggs, each on a bed of pollen, which is the food for the larvae when they emerge. I believe the plug is a mixture of mud and saliva.
There are vastly more species of solitary bees than bees which live in colonies. I don't know which particular species this is, but I found the following interesting information about mason bees, for example...
They will lay female eggs towards the back of the nest, and male eggs towards the front. The males always emerge earlier in order to ensure that they will have the opportunity to mate with the females; they may even help pull them out of their nests once they begin to hatch. The other advantage is that if birds get to the nest and they pull out a few larvae to eat, their beaks will only reach the males and the females will hopefully be untouched. Dead female bees would mean the end of the line for that generation, but if only the males are eaten then the females still have a chance to seek out males from other nests to mate with.
Bees are remarkable creatures. The larvae may overwinter as pupae, and then emerge as adults next spring? Or maybe yet this year? I'll be waiting... :o))