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Decked out in its frilly yellow costume, this Dagger caterpillar posed nicely for me on our patio concrete.
On my belly to get this shot, of course :)
While it's beautiful to the eye, it won't be beautiful to your skin... Those five black dagger-like bristles on its back are tipped with poison and will cause stinging and welts on human skin.
Not life-threatening, but definitely not pleasant, especially for children who can innocently pick them up in their fascination of that bright yellow color.
"A Dagger moth caterpillar is a larval stage of the American dagger moth. It’s poisonous and dangerous and can sting with the long black bristles it has on its body" ... from butterflyhobbyist.com
With age, the yellow frills turn lighter and then whiten. The caterpillar eventually morphs into a nondescript, small, brown moth, which is completely innocuous at that point as an adult.
There... Your entomology lesson is over for the day.
Now, run out of the classroom and enjoy the weekend :)
What I believe to be a four yr. old on final approach to the next meal. What remains unseen is the unsuspecting Shad who's moments away from their first and last acupuncture treatment.
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Photographed this insect just before sunset so it was covered by a lovely orange glow. Thanks to Rob for identifying it as a Dance/Dagger Fly. Image taken on the River Soar just behind Dishley Pool in Loughborough.
Decorative daggers! Can be used as paper weights or shelving displays!!!
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raise me more love… raise me
my prettiest fits of madness
O’ dagger’s journey… in my flesh
and knife’s plunge…
sink me further my lady…
the sea calls me
add to me more death …
perhaps as death slays me… I’m revived
your body is my map…
* * * * *
Chant to me…
since from the start of creation
I’ve been searching for a homeland to my forehead…
for a woman’s hair…
that writes me on the walls… then erases me…
for a woman’s love… to take me
to the borders of the sun… and throws me…
from a woman’s lip… as she makes me
like dust of powdered gold…
shine of my life. my fan
my lantern. declaration of my orchards
stretch me a bridge with the scent of oranges…
and place me like an ivory comb…
in the darkness of your hair… then forget me
I am a drop of water… ambivalent
remaining in the notebook of October
your love crushes me…
like a mad horse from the Caucasus throwing me under its hoofs…
and gargles with the water of my eyes…
add to me more fury… add to me
O’ prettiest fits of my madness
for your sake I set free my women
and effaced my birth certificate
and cut all my arteries…
Nizar Qabbani. your body is my map.
Thick layers of volcanic tuff are shaped into fantastically chiseled features by the deft hand of erosion, Wheeler Geologic Area, La Garita Wilderness, Colorado.
One of the largest volcanic explosions the Earth has ever endured is thought to have occurred not far from the location seen here when the La Garita Caldera erupted approximately 28 million years ago. Ash from the explosion was deposited in extraordinary layers 300 feet thick (100 m), and after a thirty year effort to map it, the Caldera was discovered to be gargantuan, comprising an area that is oblong in shape and roughly 22 miles (35 km) by 47 miles (75 km). The volume of material let loose into the atmosphere is estimated to be 4,800 times that of the Mount Saint Helens eruption. The only known explosion of greater force the Earth has known is when the meteorite that pushed the dinosaurs to extinction slammed into the Yucatán Peninsula.