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All the little black dots - are love bugs! It kinda gives the effect of an old time movie. I just need to turn the video black and white. lol.
Aren't you guys glad you aren't here right now. I think this is the most love bugs I've ever seen down here. Its insane!! I think love bugs are attracted to carbon monoxide, gasoline or what ever else comes from an engine - cuz when I first went outside it wasnt that bad. As soon as I started mowing my lawn its like they all swarmed to the area i was in. I'd go inside for a break 15mins. Then so back out and they seemed to have lowered in numbers. As soon as I started mowing again - the swarm was back. I had to wear a hat and sunglasses and I almost wore something over my mouth and nose. They kept hitting me in my eyes. It was really annoying.
Short videos taken between some of the shots updated previously during a weekend, from a small secondary growth atlantic forest. Watch it in HD! Oh and yes, Flickr has a 3min limit. Complete one on YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHkFcXFNcY
Music by Mervent.
Attachment system on the Arkel Bug. Did not fit my Zefal rack, dissappointing, since it's one of the most widely available rack brand in France and Spain.
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A much anticipated comparison between two pannier/rucksac products from two of the leading brands (a pity Ortlieb hasn’t come out with a good solution yet).
So I got the Arkel Bug a couple of years ago, and was extremely disappointed with the result. The fitting hooks did not fit my Zefal rack (one of the most widely available brands in France and Spain), so I had to replace the rack. Then I discovered that the aluminium hooks were so sharp that they literally destroyed the metal part of the rack on the contact point.
As a rucksack is not very comfortable either, the metal hook that attaches the bag to the bottom part of the bike rack is always on the way (that’s on your back); you got two clunky bits of aluminium up your neck (the bag is really tall), there’s no chest strap, and to make things worse, the bottom of the bag is shaped as a wedge, so the bag is never ever going to stand, it just falls (ok for a pannier that you are not going to be putting anywhere but on your bike rack…but not very clever for a rucksack that you are to take with you anywhere, librarly, class, office, sports centre, etc).
On the fabric/material side comes the only plus of the bag. The entire product oozes quality (at 179 $ / 100 GBP is the least you can get); for the ridiculously high price you don’t even get a rain cover. Result: I haven’t used the bag for 2 years. The inside of the bag is “Spartan” to say the least. The back is not padded and there is no pocket/keyring/pen holder of any kind.
Same goes for the outer pocket (there is an extra hidden pocket that is supposed to house the raincover). So it seems that they took a pannier and tried to double it as a rucksack adding some features; a complete fail (since it simply doesn’t work), obviously in my opinion.
So last month I bought a Vaude Cycle 25, another pannier/rucksack combo I had been looking at for years (after wasting a lot of cash on the Arkel Bug, I didn’t exactly felt like spending more on another bag, so I stuck to my Ortlieb panniers until now). So I got the Vaude. What a nice surprise.
The bag is almost 400 gram lighter that it’s Canadian counterpart (which is nearly 50% of its weight). The bag comes with plastic hooks that fit into my Tubus rack AND it comes with an extra pair of hooks for thicker tubed racks (say a Zefal or a German/Dutch bike). The fitting on the bike is fast with a black adjustable rubber band. The fabric not the Vaude is not as sturdy as the Arkel’s Cordura, but it’s tons lighter AND comes with a raincover, that it’s neatly stowed on a lower compartment. This same compartment houses the “pannier system” ; you simply undo the zip, and the pannier hooks disappear of sight under the bag leaving you with a proper rucksack (way more comfortable than the Arkel), a bag that no one would actually suspects is a pannier.
The inside of the bag looks also like a proper rucksack, there is a padded compartment for a laptop/books, a keyring hanger, and the outer pocket has lots of little pockets for coins, mobile phone, etc.
The Vaude comes with an extra flexible attachment to carry a helmet. All in all, a really well made bag, light, comfortable and nice. But most of all, a product that delivers (at a reasonable price, you could actually buy more than 2 Vaude for the price of the Arkel).
Arkel Bug: 1365 gr (3 Lb): 179 $ (100 GBP)
Vaude Cycle 25: 980 gr (2 Lb 2 Oz): 45 GBP
A review of someone who likes the Arkel Bug: EcoVelo
A review of someone who does not like the Arkel Bug: Why I hate my Arkel Bug
This is the Lychee stink bug, the bane of many farmers, look for them as they infest trees like Longan and Lychee trees and suck the sap.
A great place to find these are in Tai Po Kau nature reserve.
These are the colourful juveniles. The adults are almost uniform in appearance and quite drab by comparison.
Fascinating fact: The females always lay exactly 14 eggs!
Their name comes from their foul smelling, and long lasting excretion, to ward off predation.
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Good morning everyone and Happy Hug a Bug Day. I was working on a series on moths I photographed last season to post, but ran out of time to complete it for today. So instead just a single posting of a Orange-tipped Leaf-footed Bug (Anasa tristis) a member of the family Coreidae.
Coreidae are a large family of predominantly herbivorous insects that belong in the hemipteran suborder Heteroptera. There are more than 1,800 species in over 250 genera. They vary in size from .250 - 1.750 inches (7 to 45 mm) in length, making the larger species some of the biggest heteropterans. The body shape of Coreids is quite variable, with some species broadly oval while others are slender. Coreids are found throughout the world but most species are found in the tropics and subtropics.
In North America they are colloquially called “squash bugs” because some species, such as Anasa tristis, are pests of squashes. They are also called “leaf-footed bugs” due to the leaf-like expansions some species have on their hindlegs that can be clearly seen above.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you have a truly nice last day of January, which is ending on a warm note here locally.
Lacey
ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .006 seconds (1/180) focal length 300mm
I used to give out something called the "Bug Award". I put it on the windshields of 100s of VWs throughout the Chicagoland area, and DeKalb, Illinois in the early 1990s.
Any time I saw a VW Bug I'd pull a U-ey, or drive back around the block, pull over and put this under the windshield wiper. I drove my friends nuts! I marked off my finds on a map, and marked off every one I gave out.
Beetles were rare in Illinois by this time, eaten up by road salt. So to find one in the midwest was truly special. (Even more so now.)
" This Bug's For You" is a reference to Budweiser's famous ad slogan of that era, "This Bud's For You."
In Arizona if I gave out Bug Awards I'd never get anywhere. I'd be stopping all the time.
I believe this to be the leaf-footed bug. Its classification is within the family of Coreidae and more specifically, it is within the species Acanthocephala declivis. This name translates from Greek meaning ‘sloping thorn head’. This bug was found on February 23, basking in the sun outside of the Village apartments at UNCW. This bug demonstrates the concepts of Intrasexual selection. The males will fight competing males by delivering a powerful squeeze in order to deter them from mates or food. The length of the back femur and its largest tooth are proportional to its body size. A larger A. declavis would have larger femur and tooth compared to a smaller one. The female femur and tooth ratio has not been studied, but it is assumed that they play a role in the female-female battles and that the scaling is also increased with size. However, it was found that the females use these hind legs as warning display and as a visual signal for other A. declavis. More information can be found here: www.stri.si.edu/sites/publications/PDFs/1998_Ann_Ent_Soc_...
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n Mexico some things seem to live forever, like old VW bugs. Also, on the walls, the butterflies never die... From my morning run. A long one. Today a worker I past fist bumped me. Out of the blue. ✌️