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One of my favorite things in the spring and fall is to burn all the brush and stuff collected, drink some beer, and take some pictures. This is burn #1 for fall 2010...
near Mindo, Ecuador
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
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windblown frost and ice clinging to a fence post on the Torrs ridge in Cheshire.
This is looking Westwards with the distinctive conical summit cone of Shutlingsloe in the centre of the picture
This old wooden fencepost is one of my favorite locations to photograph during the wildflower and bluebonnet season in the Texas Hill Country. Just outside Llano, Texas, this location can provide a great place to capture the state flower, Texas bluebonnets.
Year after year, I've returned her to photograph the same scene, and it never fails to disappoint. Unfortunately, however, you need to get there early in the season. This bluebonnet location tends to get trampled by folks wanting their picture taken here.
One of my favorite things in the spring and fall is to burn all the brush and stuff collected, drink some beer, and take some pictures. This is burn #1 for fall 2010...
This fencepost doesn't hold up much fence anymore.
It's located in Avondale on a pretty busy street.
Probably a long time ago it might have had animals behind it but now it's a vacant lot.
100% cotton fabric fused onto muslin then quilted. this is an old country road down the street from where i live. i solf the finished quilt at the west textures gallery
Just outside of Toledo Union Station in Toledo, Ohio, I found this rustic chain-link fence with hearty brush growing up all around it. Literally!
Tychus niger short-winged mold beetle found on a fencepost at the edge of broadleaf woodland at Low Ploughlands near Finglandrigg Wood, 24 October 18.
Had I not been searching for the diminutive Phloiophilus edwardsii at the time, I might have missed this little beetle, as it's even smaller! There was no chance of any in situ shots with my bridge camera, and my first attempts with my SX10D microscope were also a dismal failure, as it just wouldn't stay still long enough to photograph - even after cooling it down for an extended period in my fridge.
As often happens with small insects, it didn't survive its first night in captivity, but even then I couldn't get any decent shots, as its legs were all hunched up. So I left it for a day in a relaxing box to free up its joints, and then after an hour or so of tedious micro manipulation - using a pair of my finest gauge ento pins - I finally managed to needle it into shape.
Both photos were taken at 40x magnification, Photo 1 giving a dorsal view (and length measurement) and Photo 2 a ventral view.
As noted previously, the Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre no longer allows public access to county data via NBN Atlas, and so I don't know how common this insect is in the Carlisle area. However, Tullie House apparently holds 14 preserved specimens most of which appear to have been collected from the north-east of the county, although the most recent of these was from 1938.
Note on identification: As I couldn't initially find this beetle in the image galleries I usually refer to (mainly because I didn't realise it was classed as a rove beetle!) I ran it through the relevant AIDGAP guide (Ref 1) so that I could at least identify it down to family level. It was eventually determined as a Pselaphidae, with the full sequence of couplets being: A1 - A2 - A3 - C1 - C2 - C3 - C4 - C5 - C6 - C7. (I should point out here, that Couplet C6 relates to the presence of ocelli, and as the beetle's dark and hairy head was only about 0.2mm in width, it was not possible to pick these minute features out with my low-powered microscope - I just had to assume they were there!)
This family isn't covered explicitly on the UK Beetle Recording scheme, and the species was in fact identified from images on the Beetle Fauna of Germany website:
www.kerbtier.de/cgi-bin/enFSearch.cgi?Fam=Pselaphidae
Tychus niger is the only convincing match, especially when the enlarged fifth antennal segment is taken into account.
According to Ref 1, in the UK the Pselaphidae family comprises 19 genuses with a total of 51 species, whereas the above link only covers 15 genuses and 27 species, and so it's clearly not comprehensive. Consequently, the considerably larger Staphylinidae group on the UK Beetle Recording scheme website was also checked through but no other candidates were found:
www.coleoptera.org.uk/photo-gallery
So in view of the fact that Tychus niger has previously been recorded in north-east Cumbria I'm as sure as I can be that it has been correctly identified!
Ref 1: A key to the families of British beetles, D. M. Unwin, FSC Publications (2015)
This little fellow (or a tree rat as he is otherwise known by certain folk) is enjoying some seeds he has just gathered from the bird feeders behind him. We purposely hung the feeders from the holly bush to deter such creatures, but it makes no difference to him!
20 June 2008; the sun is going down on this schoolhouse on Kinde Rd...a few miles east of Kinde, MI.
This is a part of Overnight Photo Trip June 2008.
Photos of and from my Zeiss Ikon Contessa LK, which was made sometime from 1963 to 1965
Taken in Cumberland Mountain State Park near Crossville, TN
Old cedar fencepost with barbed wire. This was once part of a pasture boundary. Since grazing ceased about 60 years ago the forest has reclaimed the land. Instead of cows there are now ovenbirds, warblers, wolves, and blue-spotted salamanders. Many of the trees (white spruce, tamarack, balsam fir, paper birch) are one foot in diameter and 60 to 80 feet tall. The grasses have been replaced with wood rush, lady's fern, wood fern, anemone, baneberry, bunchberry, and clubmosses.
Nikon F2 3.5/135 on Tri-X 400 @400 in
Spur HCD-S + HCD-2 1:24 (2 min, 30 sec agitation then stand + 5:30, 30 sec agitations then every 60 sec 3 times; 20°C)