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Bugs in the compost heap - kinda puts you off sticking your hands in it :)
This is however non mature compost. Only the second time I've seen those pale waxy looking detritus mites
www.stvincent.edu/wpnr | The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve at Saint Vincent College hosted its annual Bug Camp for 5-6 year olds (with an adult). Campers search for butterflies, spiders, dragonflies, bees, beetles, and more!
Shield bug, probably Poecilometis parilis (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Paruna Reserve, Como NSW Australia, January 2011.
... tisck... look at all those bugs dyeing off of the grid... how are you supposed to properly survey bug density if they keep killing themselves off of the grid?
I don't remember where I took this. I think this is a grasshopper, but don't take my word for it.
Photoshop: crop, curves, hue/saturation, layers, eraser
www.stvincent.edu/wpnr | The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve at Saint Vincent College hosted its annual Bug Camp for 5-6 year olds (with an adult). Campers search for butterflies, spiders, dragonflies, bees, beetles, and more!
In all my years in and around the mountains, I've never seen anything quite like this. Those little puffs of "smoke" coming off the tops of the trees are, in fact, insects.
Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
These bugs come from our compost. This one was drowning in the birdbath so I rescued it along with the green bug and got some photos as my reward.