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It's not my usual inclination to make direct political statements on these bike centric posts, but whenever I see an image of Donald Trump it makes me think of an old Mose Allison song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpekvOkwNM
I don't know the precise name of this wasp, but I do know it's a 'social' wasp, rather than a solitary one, as the social wasps gather gather wood fibre from weathered wood to create the pulp for their nests. This image was taken in my Mum's garden in Zurich, but my Flickr friend Linda Peall (Rivercrouchwalker) has recently taken a practically identical one in this country.
A piece of Timothy grass glistens in the morning light. Do you remember plucking out a piece of Timothy grass and chewing on the end when you were younger???
See light box view.
Lucy chewing the tape on a box. She especially enjoys chewing plastic tape.
Since she wasn't eating the tape or hurting herself, of course I took a few photos before moving her and recycling the box.
Yuki chewing a piece of rope that him and Molly love to play tug 'o war with. Not sure they would play it now as he is twice as big as he was in the picture, and many times stronger.
This evening in my computer room I discovered a wasp chewing one of my plastic frozen dinner bowl flash diffusers. I had noticed a few wasps buzzing around my basement over the last week or so, would catch them, then release them outside. The computer room door is left open and any flying insect will eventually find its way in there. The wasp was busily chewing away on the bowl, with the chewed area appearing as a rough spot below its closest foot. Shreds of plastic can be seen clinging to its mandibles. It didn't appear to be in a hurry so I decided to use this opportunity to try a macro test with an old enlarger lens by reverse mounting it on the front of my old Nikon AI-S 105mm f/2.5 lens.
I had fitted an empty 52mm filter ring onto an old Leica snap-on lens shade (UFOO-1956) that fits a 9cm Elmar and 13.5cm Hektor lens. This allows it to be mounted backwards onto any lens I have that takes a 52mm filter. Three old enlarger lenses in my inventory are quite small and have a raised aperture ring configuration that allows them to be fitted (reversed) into the end of the shade that has the push-button operated retractible "lugs" used to mount the shade onto the front of a Leica lens. These lugs bear against the sloped surface of the aperture ring, gripping it firmly. The particular enlarger lens used for reversing was an old "Laminex" 90mm f/4.5 that was in a box of optical "junk" someone gave me. The Nikon AI-S 105mm f/2.5 was set at it's closest focusing distance... 3.5 feet. The aperture was set at f/16. I very briefly considered taking a number of photos for "stacking", but this shot looked so good on playback that I decided not to. An attempt at a "rapid fire" shooting sequence for stacking a few years ago blew the flash in this camera so I use it with a small Nikon speedlight (SB-23). Because of the D40 "hybrid" shutter, it synchs up to the top speed of the camera... 1/4000 sec.
Using another frozen dinner bowl diffuser, I was able to pop off a series of shots without disturbing the wasp. The only reaction to the multiple flashes, and repositioning of the bowl it was busy with, was a short pause (seen here), and a brief waving of the antennae. Then... it was back to more chewing. I have no idea why it was engaged in this unusual activity. They'll chew wood to make pulp for nest construction... but plastic??? The dinner bowl diffuser it was chewing on is several years old, so no food residue can possibly be present. Besides, it was physically chewing, scoring, shredding the material... not feeding on anything.
After a 20 minute shooting session I CAREFULLY and SLOWLY carried the diffuser, with the wasp along for the ride, upstairs, out onto the back porch, and sent it on its way back to wherever it came from.
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A recent visit to Chester Zoo. The zoo first opened in 1931. I have been visiting the zoo since the late 1960s.
I went back to Chew Moor yesterday for the 47's which were opposite way round from last week 47790 slowes for the stop at Lostock with 2Z08 10.45 Chorley Manchester Victoria.
Saturday 29 November 2014.
Chew valley lake, in the Mendip Hills. Taken on a not so sunny day. Still least it gave me this rather dramatic photo.
Loved watching these three monkeys. They were like three old men sitting on a park bench chewing the fat!