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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.
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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The splash of colors on these bugs warn birds and other predators of a nasty taste and poisonous meal. The toxin come from eating the Milkweed plant which creates the chemical.
Please enlarge for an even better creepy-crawler :) Enjoy!
I've tried trice before to get a ring flash- one was got from ebay but was advertised wrongly so would not work on my camera and the other was very cheap from Poland and didn't work properly either. Today, my sigma one arrived- second hand from ebay again, but fantastic! I have only had 5 minutes in the garden with it- I was focussing on the bug here deep inside the tulip - a shot I never could have got on a windy day before hand held. i'm looking forward to getting some better shots with it!!
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.
An engineless VW Bug in an Mojave desert yard.
Exposure: 2.4 minutes @ f/8, 200 ISO. Full moonlight and AA maglite
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_...
Large Milkweed bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) feed exclusively on milkweed plants, sucking plant juice through their long, sharp proboscis.
Hand-held Nikon D5200 at ISO 200, with Nikkor 105G macro lens, 1/200-sec at f/16, diffused sunlight + Nikon SB-600 speedlight with 6x8-in FotoDiox softbox diffuser.
Friday bugs porn again. Cicadas, again. I think it's their mating season or something. Everywhere I go, i see them in pairs! More bugs porn: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2011/01/bugs-porn.html
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. ✌️
Always worth checking out the garden plants in the evening :)
Spotted this Green Shield bug settling in for the night lol.
Unlike Darters he didn't take to my flash and flew off only to land on our Confers where i took a few more shots :))
Two bugs on a walnut tree leaf. What can they be?
The tree's in the mountains of Gran Canaria, in case that helps.
Another tree nearby had some larvae but my guess is they're not related. But then I'm a bug-ignoramus :)
Update: seems to be vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus