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The weekly challenge for the Thumb's Up Group was bugs... hehehe.. I chased butterflies and bees around my yard... then went to the Harbor where there are fantastic gardens... and was chasing this guy around!!!! I sooo love ladybugs..
FINALLY got to take my top down!!! (on my Jeep that is! ;-) ). It is gorgeous out today!!!!!!!!!!!!
Been crazy all day... I have no idea how women who DO do everything... actually can stand it!!!!!!!!!! LOL...
Hope you are all having a great Sunday... I sooo sooo sooo wish Monday wasn't tomorrow... BOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was so focused on the insects beneath the mushrooms when I was shooting that I failed to see how beautiful the curves and swirls of the gills were until I got home and downloaded the photos. It reminded me of a cavern with curtain-like formations, or granite with geologic folds.
Driving on I-680 out of the Bay Area, I was completely seduced, sucked in, lured by the impossible greenness of the hills around me. The traffic was crawling along, so I ducked out of it at the next exit and, instead, tooled along this lovely road alongside verdant fields and happy California cows galore.
I noticed this strange almost cloud looking patches swooping by, and thought it must be my windows... maybe come strange distortion of the tinting... maybe my driving addled madness. Finally I realized, as I pulled to a startled stop, that it was bugs. Hundreds of bugs. Millions of bugs. Far. Too. Many. Bugs.
They hovered in clouds above this little road, with an imposing fence that didn't allow me to explore further, in an undulating line in the air. They were tiny gnat-like things, and they were Everywhere. Freaky. Maybe they were planning something. Keep an eye out...
This underside belongs to a northern fruit bug (Carpocoris fuscispinus) which was climbing around on the flowers outside the front of my house back in mid-September of 2025.
From this angle, you can see the long proboscis which shield bugs use to feed on pland sap and fruit.
Identified by Al JC and others as a shield bug, that gives off a bad smell...glad I never touched it :). others have also referred to it as a stink bug.
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A verrrrrrrrry, small bug...exploring a Gerbera Daisy Petal.
Who couldn't use a little whimsy in their thank you's? A great match with our "Bug in a Jar" Invitations, these 4 x 5 thank you notes will leave your guests grinning!
Found this very common bug nymph on Uapaca trees (U. kirkiana) in the miombo (Katanga, DR Congo, 35km NE of Lubumbashi, January 2015).
Field stack based on 18 usable exposures, assembled in Zerene Stacker (Dmap & Pmax). Cropped image, now 25-27mm high. Canon 5D mkii, EF 100mm macro 1:2.8 USM, ISO-100, f/4, -0.7step, 1/50s, natural light.
I noticed the other day that one of the trees at work had some cute little bugs on it, so I decided to take my camera into work today. I waited until lunchtime and then went and took some snaps. I had to climb in under the branches which where about shoulder height, it wasnt until I was surrounded by branches that i discovered that the leaves where teaming with bugs, which kind of freaked me out. I didnt take a lot of photos and will try again tommorrow