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My good friend Peter EW&F suggested that I improve my bug trap to save the Honey Bees.
I haven't caught any Honey Bees yet mostly flies and ants but I improved it anyway just incase, I can now open the lid and let them out.
See original trap below.
Have a great day!
A most colorful bug (Sphaerocoris annulus, Scutelleridae, Hemiptera) feeding on herbaceous plants along the Luapula river (Upper-Katanga, DR Congo, 1 February 2018).
Live specimen. Fieldstack based on 66 images (fast method, Zerene Stacker, Dmap & Pmax). Sony A6500, FE 2.8/90 Macro G OSS; ISO-200, f/3.5, 1/400s, -0.3step, diffused natural light.
Find a previous post of this specimen in the first comment line
Gear and methods: www.flickr.com/photos/andredekesel/8086137225/
Article about this image here: www.boredpanda.com/picasso-bug-sphaerocoris-annulus/
Green shield bug (Palomena prasina) nymph on a leaf.
Nimfa odorka zieleniaka (Palomena prasina) na liściu.
Actually called the Portland Headwater Light, but knows as the Bug Light for its small size. Built in 1875 in Portland Maine.
Hanging out by the flowers
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Jagged Ambush Bug ~ Genus Phymata
The Jagged Ambush Bugs are insects I see quite often. 99% of the time they are set up on a wildflower and waiting for some poor soul to land on it - then they strike. They have strong grips on their front to hold an insect inplace when it land, and those other sets of legs anchor it to flower while their venomous beak does the rest.
CC Week 19 - It's the Little Things
While taking flower photos at sunset I noticed that as it got later, more and more insects started to appear. Crane flies live only briefly in their adult phase, and are much more destructive in their larval stage when they can damage lawns and other plants. Adult crane flies do not eat very often. When they do, it might be sipping on nectar, as this one was attempting to do. Since they live most successfully in areas where there is plenty of water, it makes sense that they would do well in a wetter than usual year like this one.
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This beautiful female Blue Dasher sure did give this sick old lady a wonderful opportunity for lots of photos. I really enjoyed her. Hot summer here and I still can't get out anywhere. Thank You, Jesus, for beautiful bugs in God's garden!
For Macro Mondays theme; "Multicolor. HMM!
*(I found this little bug crawling around in our woodpile. He was too cute to dispatch, so I decided to leave him there. His face measures one and a half inches wide, by one and three quarters inches from chin to top of his antennas.)
A tiny striped bug on a Scotch thistle.
When I first saw this, I wasn't even sure it was a bug. Then it started to move. The camera can see better than my eyes!
Maybe it's the nymph of a stinkbug? I'm not an entomologist.
I have no idea who this insect is, but I do know its legs are more than twice as long as its body. I'm imagining one of those monster movies set in maybe the downtown streets of Los Angeles among the skyscrapers. It's coming down the street King Kong size and all the people are scattering, screaming in horror running for their lives. Actually just a wildflower find a couple of years ago, on some lupine. Have a nice day.
I'm pretty much a novice at anything other than geometric patterning. I was experimenting with shapes, and they looked like a bug. I looked at Swooshable for help with 180 degree snot-work, and they had a thing with finger hinges that worked decently. It's a bit fragile, but it's all stuck together -- a minor victory. Anyway, I learned something new while making it, so that's good. Now I only have about 15.3 trillion more new things to learn about LEGO. ;-)
I think this is a nymph of the white-margined burrowing bug, Sehirus cinctus. It was nestled in among the leaves, though, so I couldn't get a good look...
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." - Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It's not easy to see, but there are four bugs gathered on the petals of this flower; I imagine they were discussing politics, or where to go to lunch. Maybe they were just gossiping about Sally in accounting. They wouldn't let me in on the conversation, so I really couldn't say with much authority and am completely speculating.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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