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A fella, I caught in my garden after the rain...
Addition: The red-black fella is a Pyrrhocoris apterus --> Firebug in english and Gendarme in french.
They are frequently observed to form aggregations, especially as immature forms, with from tens to perhaps a hundred individuals.
Firebugs generally mate in April and May. Their diet consists primarily of seeds from lime trees and mallows.
They can be seen in tandem formation when mating which can take from 12 hours up to 7 days (?!?! uuuuu, mmmmm :D :P). The long period of copulating is probably used by the males as a form of ejaculate-guarding under high competition with other males.
Maddie lighting a sky lantern during our Labor Day camping extravaganza ... OK, we mostly sit around the campfire telling tall tales and drinking malted beverage products ;-)
After doing yard work all day, I threw some sticks into the firepit. I don't know if I gave him the idea or if he already had the thought...every time I looked at him he was sitting by the firepit!? "Ok bud, if you want to sit by a fire, I'll make one and sit with you" :-)
Not Eurydema dominulus but rather Pyrrhocoris apterus die Gemeine or Common Feuerwanz. The creatures with three small "buttons" on their backs are the nymphs. English wikipedia page for the Firebug here. It feeds on the seeds of Lime trees.
A cute little Tuscan firebug that kindly posed for a quick macro.
I've only seen firebugs once in our garden in the UK so was surprised/delighted to find hundreds of them around Capanna Leopoldina, the property at which we stayed in Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany. Not everyone in the party was as pleased as me as they frequently came to visit the breakfast table!
This is shot by placing an old piece of vine against a stone wall, gently lifting one of the firebugs onto the vine and allowing it to climb until it had nowhere to go.
Processing is in Color Efex Pro 4.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II
EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM@100 mm
1/160 sec at f/13
ISO400
Sporty's was a short hop from Red Stewart Airfield. We stopped by for some charts and to get some paperwork signed by Steve and give Jerod a little extra practice. The inside was really cool. There was a cool diner inside, a Cessna hanging from the ceiling that was being raffled off, and you could order anything from their catalog and a girl would get on a bike and ride through the big warehouse in the back to pick it up. This is also where Firebug got her transponder installed. Steve was very sad to see someone else flying her.
يمكن التعرف عليها بسهولة بسبب لونها الأحمر والأسود الملفت للنظر. تتزاوج حشرة النار في شهري أبريل ومايو و يمكن أن يستغرق التزاوج من 12 ساعة إلى 7 أيام، ويتألف غذاؤها في المقام الأول من بذور الأشجار وغالباً ما تتواجد في مجموعات قرب جذوع الأشجار الخبازية وبذور الزيزفون.
The thing thats so good about the Firebug extension, is not just that it combines all the useful inspection tools - DOM Inspector, View Source, Javascript console etc into one place, but that its an extension that HAS A DECENT MAC THEME FOR IT. Huzzah!
So many extensions are great, but look overly PC-esque on OS X, but not this. This has attention to detail that floats my boat, as well as being so useful.
Ack! Browser decisions are so hard these days...
Pagan Wanderer Lu playing at the Sweeping The Nation gig, Firebug Leicester UK. Part of Summer Sundae Fringe