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This bug is being bugged (by me). I'm trying to hold the camera still but I guess my hands were shaking bad, thus, it's not that good of a macro shot.
Ambush bugs
Bluff Spring Fen, Elgin IL USA
I think ambush bugs are fascinating. They're like tiny armored vehicles or mini-dinosaurs.
A sorry looking V.W. waiting for sunnier weather in a local field.
I think it is need of a bit more than a touch up ;)
The bug that lays the golden egg. I spotted this on the top side of a camellia leaf. Focus stacked using zerene.
No other eggs on the same leaf. Suspect it belongs to a box bug. Gonocerus acuteangulatus. Using a 10X microscope lens
Ever been bitten by a love bug? 3 Harlequin Beetles on a Hibiscus leaf shaped like a heart. These beetles are sap-suckers and you can see the damage they've done to this leaf.
The weekly challenge for the Thumb's Up Group was bugs... hehehe.. I chased butterflies and bees around my yard... then went to the Harbor where there are fantastic gardens... and was chasing this guy around!!!! I sooo love ladybugs..
FINALLY got to take my top down!!! (on my Jeep that is! ;-) ). It is gorgeous out today!!!!!!!!!!!!
Been crazy all day... I have no idea how women who DO do everything... actually can stand it!!!!!!!!!! LOL...
Hope you are all having a great Sunday... I sooo sooo sooo wish Monday wasn't tomorrow... BOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
300ft highway 2017: Sad sight, indeed, a Volkswagen Beetle which was left to rot at a garage in Dhanmondi before being shifted to this garage at the 300ft. Is in the process of being resotred as a 'show piece;.
Driving on I-680 out of the Bay Area, I was completely seduced, sucked in, lured by the impossible greenness of the hills around me. The traffic was crawling along, so I ducked out of it at the next exit and, instead, tooled along this lovely road alongside verdant fields and happy California cows galore.
I noticed this strange almost cloud looking patches swooping by, and thought it must be my windows... maybe come strange distortion of the tinting... maybe my driving addled madness. Finally I realized, as I pulled to a startled stop, that it was bugs. Hundreds of bugs. Millions of bugs. Far. Too. Many. Bugs.
They hovered in clouds above this little road, with an imposing fence that didn't allow me to explore further, in an undulating line in the air. They were tiny gnat-like things, and they were Everywhere. Freaky. Maybe they were planning something. Keep an eye out...
Identified by Al JC and others as a shield bug, that gives off a bad smell...glad I never touched it :). others have also referred to it as a stink bug.
What is it about bugs and loo rolls (no not the singer) - in the current climate of Covid19 restrictions I'm working from home, so lunchtime relief was to photograph this beetle I found crawling over contraband Andrex - how rude.
Lit with my phone torch and taken without a tripod, using my macro lens, it wasn't the easiest of shots since it wouldn't stand still - rude again, does it not know how important I am?
This follows on from a previous post from the bug hotel in our garden. Here is one of the solitary bees hard at work to seal a tube after laying her eggs. The brood chamber will contain a number of eggs, each on a bed of pollen, which is the food for the larvae when they emerge. I believe the plug is a mixture of mud and saliva.
There are vastly more species of solitary bees than bees which live in colonies. I don't know which particular species this is, but I found the following interesting information about mason bees, for example...
They will lay female eggs towards the back of the nest, and male eggs towards the front. The males always emerge earlier in order to ensure that they will have the opportunity to mate with the females; they may even help pull them out of their nests once they begin to hatch. The other advantage is that if birds get to the nest and they pull out a few larvae to eat, their beaks will only reach the males and the females will hopefully be untouched. Dead female bees would mean the end of the line for that generation, but if only the males are eaten then the females still have a chance to seek out males from other nests to mate with.
Bees are remarkable creatures. The larvae may overwinter as pupae, and then emerge as adults next spring? Or maybe yet this year? I'll be waiting... :o))