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BUG
by Tracy Letts
February 15 - March 10, 2008
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The Ringwald Theatre
Ferndale, MI
Photos by Colleen Scribner
Also known as the Assassin Bug. Found it outside our lanai door this morning. This deadly insect preditor is great to have around the house but don't get bit. Bite can be very nasty to humans. Wheel Bug is slow moving, not agressive, and will only bite if mishandled. :)
Joe - here is the Anthocoris that was on the same plant as that red bug nymph i uploaded the other day from Kingussie, cairngorm National Park, Scotland.
Does it help in IDing that nymph at all?
Who Wants Cake?
presents
BUG
by Tracy Letts
February 15 - March 10, 2008
@
The Ringwald Theatre
Ferndale, MI
Photos by Colleen Scribner
This bug was cute and I was going to free him after taking his photo. But I found out he was dead. Interesting how he died with his hands (feet...) in prayer position.
This is just one of many times I've gone out of my way recently to free an already dead bug....
This Savannah Sparrow was chowing down on this bug. The funny behavior was when the bird was throwing down the bug on the ground. It did this repeatedly. I've seen other animals do this to kill their prey but never from a small bird with a bug. Very entertaining.
In between i saw these typical bugs in so many different colors, so i think they are various like butterflys.
New track in my audio-blog: Winds of Change
I'm involved with planning a wildlife garden outside our museum store at the moment, and have started on a prelim survey of the existing fauna. It's quite fascinating...
The site is in the old industrial area of Leeds, concrete factories being knowcked down, concrete flats going up all around. At first glance, the only things alive are Buddleia and bunnies. However, there's a bit of really poor clay topsoil dumped there, with a quite high diversity of scrawny wild plants growing, and a wonderfully odd fauna. Most of the diversity is flies, spiders and beetles, and I'm seeing quite a few of each that I've never seen before. Likewise, it seems, for the bugs... These three nymphs were all scuttling around on the almost bare earth.
I think this one is possibly a Saldula sp... there were large puddles over the winter, so maybe that counts as a shore..!
Just need to leave this little inconspicuous device where you want to monitor sounds.
The dimension (4 x 3 x 1.3cm) makes it one of the world’s smallest voice monitor spy bugs.