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After yesterday's curve ball post, here's my change-up pitch.
Another subject that's a bit out of my normal photo repertoire, this large bloom atop a Spanish Dagger plant was found in Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas.
I didn't have to get low for this shot. The overall plant was about 8 feet high and the bloom was at least a foot tall.
The Topkapi Dagger is an emerald-studded curved dagger, known as a jambiya. It was created in 1746 on the commission of Sultan Mahmud I as a peace offering to the Shah of Iran, Nadir Shah. It was never delivered, as the Shah was assassinated before it arrived.
Three large Colombian emeralds and many rose-cut diamonds are set into the gold hilt. An English made watch is embedded in the pommel and covered with another emerald.
The dagger is housed in the Imperial Treasury, located in the Third Court of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Türkiye.
Tug, tug, tug went the hem of his shirt. A small hand grazed over the hilt of his knife, as if ensuring it was still their. Pointy ears twitched once, twice at Guin's question. "Err...no? I'm the manager. You can be my assistant, though. I'll hire you. But I'm in charge of raises too. So no giving Whysper any raises without my permission. She gets paid in coal, mostly. And pinches." He nodded once at the conclusion of his illustrious job offer. "You can be my dagger."
Pushing off from the counter, she gives Conor her deepest, most illustrious curtsy. ... "I would be honored, to be your dagger, Mr. Nitely."
(Yes, yes, I know these are wicked old, but I wanted to share anyway... :p)
Gold inlays originally from a bronze dagger that has since rotted away. From a tholos tomb in Laconia (south Peloponnese, around later Sparta).
Hakea teretifolia
Dagger Hakea
With a little red & black spider hiding on the left ... didn't see it 'til on the computer.
Acronicta hastulifera
This dagger species is a very rare occurence in my neck of the woods. There is a small group of alder trees that has been a consistant producer over the past several years. These larvae occur in late summer and, like most daggers, prefer the undersides of leaves.
Frederick County (Catoctin Furnace Quad)
September 2, 2021
6578
Family - Empidae and one of the dagger fly species possibly Empis tessellata or Empis opaca.
I wanted to get a shot of a St Mark's fly ( Bibio marci ) yesterday as there are still plenty around but they were all flying and settling too high off the ground.
However I did get one in a roundabout way as I think this dagger fly has captured one.
I'm not sure if this poor St Mark's fly is dinner or intended as an offering to a female dagger fly which is a ritual the male has to perform in order for the female to allow him to mate with her.
Incredible really I think for insects to have rituals like this.
Said to be indistinguishable from the Grey Dagger moth except by disection. As I draw the line at killing and disection I have listed this as a Dark Dagger as it struck me as being darker than any Grey Dagger I have seen previously.