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Harlequin Ladybird, Harmonia axyridis.
Size ranges from 5.5mm to 8.5mm.
Widespread in England and Wales and spreading into Scotland.
The Harlequin Ladybird can be difficult to identify because of its variations in colour, spot size, and spot count. The easiest way to identify is to look at the pronotum and see whether the black markings look like a W or M. and the head has an obvious white triangle in the centre. It is a typical Ladybird beetle in shape and structure, being domed and having a smooth transition between its wing coverings, pronotum and head. The common colour form is orange or red with 0–22 black spots of variable size. The other usual forms are uniformly black with two or four red markings. The underside is dark with a wide reddish-brown border. However, numerous other forms have also been recorded. Extreme forms may be entirely black, or feature complex patterns of black, orange and red.
When identification is difficult, the underside pattern usually enables a reliable conclusion. Identification is most simple for the common forms, while less common varieties may take longer to identify. They always have reddish-brown legs and are obviously brown on the underside of the abdomen.
Originally from Asia, this species is widely considered to be one of the world’s most invasive insects. In Europe it is currently increasing to the detriment of indigenous species, its voracious appetite enabling it to outcompete and even consume other ladybirds. The harlequin ladybird is also highly resistant to diseases that affect other ladybird species, and carries a microsporidian, single-celled fungi, parasite, to which it is immune, but that can infect and kill other species. Native ladybird species have experienced dramatic declines in abundance in areas invaded by the Harlequin. In 2015, it was declared the fastest invading species in the UK, spreading throughout the country after the first sighting was confirmed in 2004. It can have multiple broods throughout the spring, summer and autumn, which also gives it a competitive edge.
They often congregate in sunlit areas because of the heat available, so even on fairly cold winter days some of the hibernating beetles will "wake up" because of solar heating. Large populations can be problematic because they can form swarms and linger in an area for a long time.
This species became established in North America as the result of introductions into the United States in an attempt to control the spread of aphids, but he Harlequin itself has also been reported to be a minor agricultural pest that is inadvertently harvested with crops. This can cause visible and sensory contamination and contamination of grapes by this beetle has been found to alter the taste of wine.
It's difficult to be certain, but I believe this small member of the so-called "tyrant flycatchers" is the Acadian Flycatcher. Based on location - during spring migration - size, coloration and the two-toned bill. It did not call out while I was photographing and watching so it's just a best guess. There are several species of similar size, shape and general appearance. This one was seen at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center in Port Aransas, Texas.
Very, very difficult... Henri´s street photography is awesome and very strong, and definitely his style is very dificult to catch. You need to be a superb photographer and to stay in the precise moment... I always lose the scene or shot in a too slow speed. The hardest style for the time being, at least for me.
Sorry for the delay posting, but I tried a lot of places and subjects in order to get a good photo. This is the result. I hope you enjoy it.
Just as a fletcher straightens an arrow shaft, even so the discerning man straightens his mind—so fickle and unsteady, so difficult to guard.
As a fish when pulled out of water and cast on land throbs and quivers, even so is this mind agitated. Hence should one abandon the realm of Mara.
Wonderful, indeed, it is to subdue the mind, so difficult to subdue, ever swift, and seizing whatever it desires. A tamed mind brings happiness.
Let the discerning man guard the mind, so difficult to detect and extremely subtle, seizing whatever it desires. A guarded mind brings happiness.
Dwelling in the cave (of the heart), the mind, without form, wanders far and alone. Those who subdue this mind are liberated from the bonds of Mara.
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Eeny meeny mine moe. A wild flanged (dominant) male Bornean orangutan trying to choose a banana from a large pile, Tanjung Puting NP, Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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This was a difficult neg, but had plenty of room for manipulation and interpretation.
'Electric' candles with 'angel-hair', I love the mystery created, the light-play.
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Waders, or shorebirds if you are American, can be difficult to identify but this one made life easy when it wing-stretched revealing its white rump. This bird used to be called Bonaparte's Sandpiper, after Charles Bonaparte (Napoleon's nephew) but unfortunately for him its white rump was too obvious a feature, so its name changed to White-rumped Sandpiper. Bizarrely its scientific name (Calidris fuscicollis) means dusky-necked sandpiper, a feature that would not distinguish it from any other sandpiper. White-rumped Sandpiper is difficult to see on its breeding grounds and on its wintering grounds. This is because it only breeds in the very far north of Canada and Alaska, and winters at the very south of South America. So the majority of sightings are of passage birds, in both spring and autumn. But very long-distance migrants are prone to getting lost and White-rumped is one of the more frequent American shorebirds to turn up in Britain, usually young birds in autumn. I photographed this one on the wintering grounds in the far south of South America.
Sabine's Gulls are quite a difficult gull to see. They breed in the high arctic but migrate south after breeding to spend the winter at sea off the continental shelves in the southern hemisphere. In the Atlantic they mainly winter off southern Africa and South America. They are only occasionally seen from land, usually when storms have blown them inshore. They are rarely seen in Britain in spring, but about a hundred are recorded annually in autumn, usually August to November. I photographed this juvenile yesterday, which has spent a few days in the Mersey Estuary near Hale lighthouse. The trees in the background are not something usually seen in Sabine's Gull photographs.
The three triangle pattern on its wings is highly distinctive. They also have a forked tail visible here which is accentuated by the juvenile black tail band. It is currently placed in a genus (Xema) all by itself. But rather unexpectedly molecular data suggests its closest relative is the Ivory Gull, which also breeds in the high Arctic but looks nothing like this. Here's one I took years ago in Svalbard: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/4775193476/in/photolist .
The name commemorates Edward Sabine who discovered the gull in 1818 while trying to discover the North West Passage (a route over the top of Canada that reaches the Pacific). He sent the specimen to his brother Joseph who named it in honour of his brother. You cannot name a species after yourself but naming it after your brother sort of circumvents this rule. Joseph called it Larus sabinii but a year later William Leach (of Leach's Petrel fame) named it Xema sabinii. Xema is just a made up word by a museum taxonomist who was having difficulty finding a name that had not been used before.
Himantoglossum adriaticum (Adriatische Riemenzunge) Klosterneuburg, Niederösterreich, Austria. This orchid appeared spontaneously in my garden. They are difficult to capture because they hide away in the tall grass in June.
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I thought M78 was difficult to process, even with over 4h of data. I must have reprocessed this 3 or 4 times, each time over stretching it before I realised I was not going to get what I wanted out of this image.
I think I'm going to have to invested in a ZWO1600MM cooled camera, "Telescope House" I might be over shortly.
I apologues in advance to all Astrophotography in southern England because when I get this camera we won't have another clear night for months.....
Well if I don't get a chance to image before Christmas have a good Christmas one and all.....
EQUIPMENT:-
Telescope Meade 6000 115mm and **New AZ-EQ6 GT**
Canon EOS 500D Astro modified
Orion Mini Auto Guide
Explore UHC Filter
CONDITIONS:-
Chip Temp 15 degC
IMAGING DETAILS:-
IC 410 (Auriga)
ISO1600
Dithering
52subs@300sec (4h 10min)
No Darks
25 Flats
50 Bias
PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-
Backyard EOS
DSS (Sligh Crop)
PS CS2
First time using my new lensbaby with a macro filter attached. I am finding it quite difficult to use, but like the effect.
In difficult situations, The Bluebird is equipped with a variety of gadgets to help Arthur with his investigations. These include:
Twin, double barreled blasters (equipped with stun and flamethrower settings)
Static bond tires (for hi speed driving on difficult roads, as well as wall climbing)
Grille mounted bonnet launcher (for catching monsters and pulling down obstacles)
Bomb deployment chutes: (useful for smokescreens, and high speed getaways)
Hidden weapons and tool hatches: (should Arthur need to make emergency repairs, or use a spare pistol)
I think it would be difficult to make a photo of this bridge without making THIS photo. The identity of the Granville Street Bridge is very tied up with the identity of Granville Island. But it is these sorts of scenes that I like to look for when photographing bridges. I am not trying to make simple architectural documents of these structures but rather reflect bits of their identities, or to make statements toward the broader identities of bridges in general. In that sense, this really is a necessary part of the Granville Street Bridge story.
What isn't a necessary part but one that I am interested in nonetheless is the fact that this bridge is the third Granville Street Bridge to exist. Many bridges aren't original. In Portland where I live, several bridges are on their second or third iteration. Unless you live during that transition though it is easy to think that all bridges are one-offs and permanent. This is not so. Another interesting fact was that when this third version of the Granville Street Bridge opened in 1954, the first civilian to drive across it was the same person who was the first to drive across the second version's opening in 1909.
Hasselblad 500C
Kodak TMAX 400
This looks like Neoscrobiger patricius, but has some distinct extra blobs that I haven't seen on any other examples of the species. This one was really fast and looked/behabed exactly like a spider wasp (video to accompany). the bottom unfocussed pic shows the markings.
At certain points in your life difficult decisions have to be made and your choice can alter your route through life.
Sometimes identifying animals is difficult, but sometimes you catch a break and it becomes much easier.
Here is one of many greyish, almost chalky larvae which I found on some flowers at my mother's summer house.
Sounds like a difficult ID, but first we can see notice the distinct head shape with small round eyes on the side which tells us it is a larvae of a sawfly.
Then we consider the host plant which in this case is the yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata) and the location (Sweden) which narrows it down to just one species - the loosestrife sawfly (Monostegia abdominalis).
There is actually a very similar species (though not found in Sweden yet) which could have fit the bill, M. nigra - but that one lacks the black spot on the head which this one has.
For the edit if this one, I'm trying out Topaz AI Sharpening after processing it in Photoshop and so far I am very pleased with the results although I wished that Topaz didn't strip the EXIF metadata from the image so I had to restore it in Photoshop afterwards.
Because there's also the rest of the jacket assortment. After trying on all of them, my girlfriend, whom I married some months later, was at a loss, and I had to help her by whispering softly in her ear: The first jacket was the most beautiful one, the red one (the one you see here). In the meantime I had taken dozens of pictures of the surroundings.
In Kunming, the capital of the Chinese province Yunnan. My wife comes from there.
The bridge was red and green for the Lord Mayor's lighting of the Christmas Tree in King George Square. It was busy in Brisbane last night, that is for sure. The lights were moving or changing, so very difficult to get a light trail or two, or some cloud action with the lights moving every .3 seconds or so. Nonetheless, very pretty. Another combination of photos, something different.
A really tough course, very hilly. It was really difficult for me, specially going downhill (my left knee was giving me problems), but I did it. The weather was very nice! It took me 3 hours 22 minutes and 30 plus seconds to cross the finish line. I brought with me a little camera to document some of the scenery.
Participé en una media maratón (21 km) que se hizo en un parque que se llama Quicksilver. El recorrido fue muy duro: muchas colinas, con subidas bravas y bajadas empinadas. Mi rodilla izquierda sufrió mucho en las bajadas, pero lo hice!! El tiempo estuvo espectacular. Me llevó 3 horas 22 minutos y más de 30 seg cruzar la meta. Llevé una cámara chiquita para poder documentar parte del recorrido y el paisaje.
Lying on the border between Utah and Arizona, the valley is well-known for having been used in many films - most famously with John Wayne*. Notice how the clouds are tinged red - that's not a camera fault, it's reflection of the red soil!
This is Navajo Nation country and if you zoom in and look at the far left you can (just!) see a Hogan - one of their homes (where tourists are not to go without an invitation)
** It's possible to tour many parts of the valley in your car or on a tour with a guide or even on horseback. I've done it in an "ordinary" car and although it's rough and sandy in places it's not too difficult.
*MANY films have been made here - too many to mention, so I suggest looking here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_appearances_of_Monument_Val...
The name Camellia Kyo Nishiki (京錦) translates to 'Kyo Brocade'. The 'Kyo' in the name is short for the name of Japan's old capital, Kyoto, and just means 'capital' as does the kyo in Tōkyo. There are at least two other cultivars, 'Yamoto Nishiki' and 'Taiyo Nishiki', that combine a placename and the word nishiki in the cultivar name.
When looking into the history of this cultivar, a lot of things are uncertain and sources are difficult to find. For example, I have found the claim that Kyo Nishiki must have been bred before 1867 but no reason for that assumption.
What we do know is that Camilla Kyo Nichiki is part of a distinctive type of C. japonica cultivar known as Higo. Higo refers to an old province in Japan (fully known as 肥後国, Higo no kuni), where this type of cultivar was first produced. Higo Province lay on the southern most of the four main islands of Japan, Kyūshū, in today's Kumamoto Prefecture.
The Higo style of camellia cultivar is known for single flowers with a splayed-out flare of stamens in the center. These camellias were prised by members of the Samurai class. In that culture, they were and still are connected to tea gardens and to the tea ceremony, and are used to produce bonsai. There seems again to be some doubt around the Higo's background. I found them described as a hybrid produced from C. japonica and C.rusticana or, via an earlier hybrid (Camellia × vernalis), from C. japonica and C. sasanqua.
Camillia Kyo Nishiki is normally described as having lighter pink stripes with darker accents and as having the typical Higo-style center. Neither of these are present in the flowers of the plant this picture comes from. However, given there was a name tag attached to the plant and that I found it in a botanical garden, I will assume that it is indeed what the tag claims it to be.
As an amusing aside: When searching for Kyo Nishiki, the fifth result that came up for me was my own picture of the same plant, taken a couple of years ago. flic.kr/p/2p6YTp1
The difficult topography of Tasmania can be noted here with Thursday evening's paper train which can be seen here heading South ( towards where the train has just come from ) . The TR units can be seen approaching the Inglewood Road level crossing near Andover. It is about to negotiate a 180 degree horseshoe curve which will take it due North the line skirting the bottom of the hills on the right hand side towards Nala. This formation was created as part of the Tin Dish Deviation project of 1931 to decrease the curvature and grades although adding extra mileage to the line. The result was bigger loads and cheaper running costs.
Sunday 29th January, 2017.
Photo By Steve Bromley.
Difficult one to process since Narborough was sodium lighting but here is 47805 arriving with the 1Z61 1437 Blackburn - Leicester railtour. The 47 replaced steam loco Mayflower at Crewe 21/12/22.
fortunato incontro, non ho avuto altre possibilità di andarmi a cercare le amate orchidee di Robert.
Orchis robertiana - Loisel.
Orchis longibracteata - Biv.
Loroglossum longibracteatum - (Biv.) Moris ex Ardoino
Himantoglossum longibracteatum - (Biv.) Schlechter
Barlia longibracteata - (Biv.) Parl.
Barlia robertiana - (Loisel.) Greuter
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This is yet another arctic bird of prey overwintering here in the northern United States.
The species, named for its feathered legs, breeds throughout the arctic and sub-arctic regions of North America, Europe, and Asia. They typically breed in the open tundra and semi-open taiga.
Rough-legged Hawks primarily eat lemmings and voles, but will also hunt for other small rodents, such as shrews and mice.
I had an unexpected opportunity to observe this youngster hovering, successfully hunting and subsequently eating a vole last week. All with a broken leg, which made it that much more difficult for him. But he did it!
This is an after-meal photo :)
San Felice Circeo
Really difficult manage with this hard light, lens flares and foreground shadows, i did my best!
nikon d60+sigma 10-20@ iso 100 f22 1/2 sec+ Hitech 0.9 reverse GND + 0.9 soft GND
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Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth
for Karolina´s 365 project
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Quenching your thirst is a necessity but for some creatures it is a time when they are most vulnerable.
This Reticulated Giraffe is drinking water from the Ewaso Nyiro River in Samburu National Reserve, whilst a couple of colleagues are on the lookout in case of an ambush from a nearby predator.
The origin of the town of Oudewater is obscure and no information has been found concerning the first settlement of citizens. It is also difficult to recover the name of Oudewater. One explanation is that the name is a corruption of old water-meadow. Oudewater was an important border city between Holland and Utrecht. Oudewater (lit. "Old water") was of great strategic importance.
The town was granted city rights in 1265 by Hendrik van Vianden, the bishop of Utrecht.
Oudewater took place in the First Free States council in Dordrecht on 19 July 1572, Oudewater was one of the twelve cities taking part in the first free convention of the States General in Dordrecht. This was a meeting that laid down the origin of the State of the Netherlands, as we know it now, under the leadership of the House of Orange. This happened at the beginning of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) when the Netherlands were still part of the Spanish Empire. After a Siege of Oudewater, the city was conquered by the Spanish on 7 August 1575, and most of its inhabitants were killed