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L'Ordre des Odonates regroupe les Libellules et les Agrions ou Demoiselles.
Ce sont tous des insectes de taille moyenne ou grande. La plus grande libellule actuelle mesure 19 cm d'envergure, celle de son ancêtre du Paléozoïque atteignait 60 cm.
Les Odonates ont de grands yeux composés et des antennes de très petite taille.
Leur appareil buccal est de type broyeur.
Les Odonates sont des prédateurs tant à l'état larvaire qu'adulte. Les 4 ailes sont de taille égale (Zygoptères) ou peu différente (Anisoptères).
L'abdomen comporte 10 segments bien apparents et un 11ème réduit.
Les larves sont aquatiques et peuvent vivre entre 1 et 3 ans.
L'accouplement se déroule en vol, le mâle tient la femelle au niveau du cou par une sorte de pince située à l'extrémité de son abdomen, la femelle courbe alors le sien vers l'avant pour mettre en contact son orifice génital terminal avec celui du mâle situé au niveau du 9ème segment.
Il y a 5700 espèces d'Odonates dans le Monde et environ 120 en Europe.
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The Order of Odonates includes the Dragonflies and the Agrees or Demoiselles.
They are all insects of medium or large size. The largest dragonfly currently measuring 19 cm wingspan, that of his ancestor Paleozoic was 60 cm.
Odonates have large compound eyes and very small antennae.
Their mouthpiece is of the grinder type.
Odonata are both larval and adult predators. The 4 wings are of equal size (Zygoptera) or slightly different (Anisoptera).
The abdomen has 10 conspicuous segments and an 11th reduced.
The larvae are aquatic and can live between 1 and 3 years.
The mating takes place in flight, the male holds the female at the neck by a kind of forceps located at the end of her abdomen, the female then bends her forwards to bring her terminal genital orifice into contact with that of the male located at the 9th segment.
There are 5700 Odonata species in the world and about 120 in Europe.
L'Ordre des Odonates regroupe les Libellules et les Agrions ou Demoiselles.
Ce sont tous des insectes de taille moyenne ou grande. La plus grande libellule actuelle mesure 19 cm d'envergure, celle de son ancêtre du Paléozoïque atteignait 60 cm.
Les Odonates ont de grands yeux composés et des antennes de très petite taille.
Leur appareil buccal est de type broyeur.
Les Odonates sont des prédateurs tant à l'état larvaire qu'adulte. Les 4 ailes sont de taille égale (Zygoptères) ou peu différente (Anisoptères).
L'abdomen comporte 10 segments bien apparents et un 11ème réduit.
Les larves sont aquatiques et peuvent vivre entre 1 et 3 ans.
L'accouplement se déroule en vol, le mâle tient la femelle au niveau du cou par une sorte de pince située à l'extrémité de son abdomen, la femelle courbe alors le sien vers l'avant pour mettre en contact son orifice génital terminal avec celui du mâle situé au niveau du 9ème segment.
Il y a 5700 espèces d'Odonates dans le Monde et environ 120 en Europe.
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The Order of Odonates includes the Dragonflies and the Agrees or Demoiselles.
They are all insects of medium or large size. The largest dragonfly currently measuring 19 cm wingspan, that of his ancestor Paleozoic was 60 cm.
Odonates have large compound eyes and very small antennae.
Their mouthpiece is of the grinder type.
Odonata are both larval and adult predators. The 4 wings are of equal size (Zygoptera) or slightly different (Anisoptera).
The abdomen has 10 conspicuous segments and an 11th reduced.
The larvae are aquatic and can live between 1 and 3 years.
The mating takes place in flight, the male holds the female at the neck by a kind of forceps located at the end of her abdomen, the female then bends her forwards to bring her terminal genital orifice into contact with that of the male located at the 9th segment.
There are 5700 Odonata species in the world and about 120 in Europe.
** Image d'archives : juillet 2019 **
L'Ordre des Odonates regroupe les Libellules et les Agrions ou Demoiselles.
Ce sont tous des insectes de taille moyenne ou grande. La plus grande libellule actuelle mesure 19 cm d'envergure, celle de son ancêtre du Paléozoïque atteignait 60 cm.
Les Odonates ont de grands yeux composés et des antennes de très petite taille.
Leur appareil buccal est de type broyeur.
Les Odonates sont des prédateurs tant à l'état larvaire qu'adulte. Les 4 ailes sont de taille égale (Zygoptères) ou peu différente (Anisoptères).
L'abdomen comporte 10 segments bien apparents et un 11ème réduit.
Les larves sont aquatiques et peuvent vivre entre 1 et 3 ans.
L'accouplement se déroule en vol, le mâle tient la femelle au niveau du cou par une sorte de pince située à l'extrémité de son abdomen, la femelle courbe alors le sien vers l'avant pour mettre en contact son orifice génital terminal avec celui du mâle situé au niveau du 9ème segment.
Il y a 5700 espèces d'Odonates dans le Monde et environ 120 en Europe.
PS : Un grand merci à toutes celles et ceux qui choisissent de regarder , de commenter et d'aimer mes photos . C'est très apprécié , comme vous l'avez constaté , je ne répond plus directement suite à votre commentaire juste pour dire en fait " merci et bonne journée " , mais en retour je passe laisser une petite trace chez vous sur une ou plusieurs de vos éditions .
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** Archive image: July 2019 **
The Order of Odonata includes Dragonflies and Agrions or Damselflies.
They are all medium or large insects. The largest dragonfly today measures 19 cm in scale, that of its ancestor from the Paleozoic reached 60 cm.
Odonata have large compound eyes and very small antennae.
Their oral appliance is of the grinder type.
Odonata are predators both in larvae and in adults. The 4 wings are of equal size (Zygoptères) or little different (Anisoptères).
The abdomen has 10 clearly visible segments and a reduced 11th.
The larvae are aquatic and can live between 1 and 3 years.
Mating takes place in flight, the male holds the female at the level of the neck by a kind of forceps located at the end of his abdomen, the female then curves hers forward to bring her terminal genital orifice into contact with that of the male located at the level of the 9th segment.
There are 5700 species of Odonates worldwide and around 120 in Europe.
PS: A big thank you to all those who choose to look at, comment on and like my photos. It is much appreciated, as you have noticed, I no longer respond directly to your comment just to say in fact "thank you and have a good day", but in return I will leave a small trace with you on one or more of your editions.
This Long-billed Dowitcher was photographed near Utqiaġvik, Alaska, during breeding season, standing tall on a tundra perch like he was auditioning for a solo in the Arctic choir. And he was. Males take the high ground to deliver rapid, piping calls—keek-keek-keek-keek-keek!—part love song, part turf warning. Rivals are notified. Females, ideally, are swooning. If not, well—he still looks fabulous doing it.
Dowitchers are shorebirds engineered for mud. Their bills don’t just stab and slurp—they pinch. The flexible tip works like forceps, able to grasp prey deep in the muck without opening the beak and filling it with sludge. It’s like using chopsticks with built-in fingers.
Inside those bill tips are Herbst corpuscles—pressure-sensitive nerves that detect the faintest wiggle from prey hiding below the surface. Even when they can’t see the food, they can feel it moving.
He’s a performer, a mud-prober, and a living multitool—proving once again that Arctic love songs are better with tweezers.
Das Innenleben des "Universal-Mavometers" (wobei das Kürzel "Mavometer" für Multi-Ampere-Volt-Meter steht) der Firma Gossen, Erlangen, dürfte interessant und anregend sein. Immerhin ist es durch mindestens ein Deutsches Reichspatent (D. R. P.) geschützt...
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The inner workings of the “Universal-Mavometer” (with the acronym “Mavometer” standing for Multi-Ampere-Volt-Meter) by Gossen, Erlangen, Germany, should be interesting and inspiring. After all, it is protected by at least one Patent of the German Empire (D. R. P., Deutsches Reichspatent)…
This my first capture of an American Kestrel, and this fellow didn't make it easy on me. He was perching on the power lines and power poles surrounding this large field that I entered to photograph an Eastern Phoebe. I heard this strange squeaky little call which sounded like a dog's chew toy. I spotted the source of the sound on the other side of the field. I used my telephoto and discovered that the sound was coming from an American Kestrel. I started to dash across the field, which was no small feat because the field is filled with Florida Sandspurs. Thank goodness I had my heavy Cardhartt pants. By the time I was in range for the shot it flew off to the opposite side of the field. We played this little game two more times and I finally managed to get three quick snaps before he left the area completely. I was so thrilled with having an image in the camera I didn't notice I had Sandspurs covering most of my lower pants legs. Fortunately, none of the Sandspurs broke skin, but I spent about 20 minutes, and surgical forceps to remove the nuisance spurs from my shoes, shoelaces and pants legs.
A Pair of Western Grebe Caring for their chick.
A large, elegant, black-and-white grebe, the Western Grebe breeds in lakes and ponds across the American West and winters primarily off the Pacific Coast.
Western Grebes breed on freshwater lakes and marshes with extensive open water bordered by emergent vegetation.
During winter they move to saltwater or brackish bays, estuaries, or sheltered sea coasts and are less frequently found on freshwater lakes or rivers.
Western Grebes eat mainly fish, catching them by diving in open water. They either spear prey or capture it with a forceps-like motion of the bill, taking larger prey items to the surface before swallowing. They also occasionally consume bottom-dwelling crustaceans and worms.
Nests are most often built on floating vegetation hidden among emergent plants; Western Grebes occasionally nest in the open and rarely on land. Both sexes build the nest using material brought from underwater, found floating on the surface, or growing near the nest. Western Grebes often nest in colonies, with hundreds or even thousands on one lake.
The Western Grebe, like other grebes, spends almost all its time in water and is very awkward when on land. The legs are so far back on the body that walking is very difficult. Western Grebes are adept swimmers and divers. Courtship happens entirely in the water, including a well-known display known as “rushing,” where two birds turn to one side, lunge forward in synchrony, their bodies completely out of the water, and race across the water side by side with their necks curved gracefully forward.
(Nikon, 300/4 + TC 1.4, f8 @ 1/800, ISO 220)
Mein Leatherman (rechts) und SwissTool beim Kräftemessen
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My Leatherman (right) and SwissTool at the power test
Forficula auricularia is reddish-brown in color, with a flattened and elongate body, and slender, beaded antennae. An obvious feature of earwigs is the pair of 'pincers' or forceps at the tip of the flexible abdomen. Both sexes have these pincers; in males they are large and very curved, whereas in females they are straight. Nymphs are similar to adults in appearance, but their wings are either absent or small
Male Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Cordulegaster boltonii
Gomphidae - Onychogomphus forcipatus / Onychogomphe pliers ( or forceps !) ; every male gender feature anal appendages sugar tongs .
The yellow longnose butterflyfish or forceps butterflyfish, Forcipiger flavissimus, is a species of marine fish in the family Chaetodontidae. The yellow longnose butterflyfish is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific area from the eastern coast of Africa to Hawaii, Red Sea included, and is also found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Baja California to the Revillagigedo Islands and the Galapagos. It is a small fish which grows up to 22 cm in length. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade. 31234
I'm not feeling alright today
I'm not feeling that great
I'm not catching on fire today
Love has started to fade
I'm not going to smile today
I'm not gonna laugh
You're out living it up today
I've got dues to pay
And the gravedigger puts on the forceps
The stonemason does all the work
The barber can give you a haircut
The carpenter can take you out to lunch
Now I just want to play on my panpipes
I just want to drink me some wine
As soon as you're born you start dyin'
So you might as well have a good time, oh no
Sheep go to heaven
Goats go to hell
Sheep go to heaven
Goats go to hell
I don't wanna go to Sunset Strip
I don't wanna feel the emptiness
Old marquees with stupid band names
I don't wanna go to Sunset Strip
I don't wanna go to Sunset Strip
I don't wanna feel the emptiness
Old marquees with stupid band names
I don't wanna go to Sunset Strip
And the gravedigger puts on the forceps
The stonemason does all the work
The barber can give you a haircut
The carpenter can take you out to lunch
Now, but I just want to play on my panpipes
I just want to drink me some wine
As soon as you're born you start dyin'
So you might as well have a good time, oh no
Sheep go to heaven
Goats go to hell
Sheep go to heaven
Goats go to hell
Sheep go to heaven
Goats go to hell
Sheep go to heaven
Goats go to hell
Sheep go to heaven
Goats go to hell
Sheep go to heaven
Goats go to hell
Sheep go to heaven
Goats go to hell
Sheep go to heaven
Peter sent a message to Bill at Classic FM, asking if he had ever come across anyone else who had been stringing their beans using artery forceps! He was delighted when Bill read out the message and played some Mozart to help them grow! You can see the string he was using..... If you read this, Bill, I am sorry, but Peter was so delighted that he can't stop sending you messages - he's a very clever man, my husband, but sometimes, I feel, he just doesn't understand the world...
Flickr Friday,
Aqua,
Fly Fishing,
Forceps,
Macro,
Macro Mondays,
Parachute Adams,
Tabletop,
Water Drops,
Wet
Fly is ~ 3/4” long.
Well today I achieved two of my ambitions (I have many). One was to photograph a Hoopoe in Britain, and the other was to photograph a Hoopoe with its crest fully raised. Yesterday a Hoopoe was found on a small housing estate in Collingham, West Yorkshire and this morning it was still there. So I set off through the rush hour traffic to try to see it before the forecast rain arrived. When I reached the site I had to stop the car as the Hoopoe was walking down the road in front of me. I watched it for a couple of hours as it picked insects out of paving cracks using its forceps-like bill. It steadfastly refused to forage on lawns, but moved from driveway to driveway, seemingly oblivious to a group of admiring birdwatchers and bemused residents. They raise their crests when excited or agitated and it did so several times while I was there, albeit briefly.
Hoopoes are scarce visitors to Britain, usually with about a hundred and twenty-five records a year. In spring there is a southerly bias to records but in autumn there are relatively more records along the east coast and in the Northern Isles. This suggests that autumn birds have a more easterly origin as they breed as far east as Lake Baikal. European breeders winter in Africa, and Hoopoes have nested in England on about 30 occasions, but not elsewhere in Britain. Also interestingly, the number of records in Britain has remained stable for the past sixty years whereas records of most scarce birds have increased in line with the increasing popularity of birdwatching. This is probably because few are missed as they will be reported even by non-birders.
A large, elegant, black-and-white grebe, the Western Grebe breeds in lakes and ponds across the American West and winters primarily off the Pacific Coast.
Grebs have a dramatic, choreographed courtship display, in which the birds rush across the water with their long necks extended.
Western Grebes breed on freshwater lakes and marshes with extensive open water bordered by emergent vegetation. During winter they move to saltwater or brackish bays, estuaries, or sheltered sea coasts and are less frequently found on freshwater lakes or rivers.
Western Grebes eat mainly fish, catching them by diving in open water. They either spear prey or capture it with a forceps-like motion of the bill, taking larger prey items to the surface before swallowing. They also occasionally consume bottom-dwelling crustaceans and worms.
Seen at a U.S. Civil War reenactment last autumn
According to "The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles," Union surgeons during the war "were issued all-purpose surgical sets outfitted for an array of battlefield injuries. Along with amputation instruments, these typically included trephines, retractors, bullet extractors, razors, forceps, along with lancets, tourniquets, tweezers, bone gougers, hooks, probes, scalpels, surgical razors, suturing needles, and wedge-shaped Hey's Saws, useful in skull surgery."
Canon EOS 6D - f/5.6 - 1/80sec - 100mm - ISO 200
- The Force is a metaphysical and ubiquitous power in the Star Wars fictional universe.
In the story, the Jedi utilize the "light side" of the Force, while the Sith exploit what is known as the "dark side".
The Force has been compared to aspects of several world religions, and the iconic phrase "May the Force be with you" has become part of the popular culture vernacular.
- De Kracht (Engels: The Force), is een geheimzinnige kracht die gebruikt wordt door Jedi en Sith in de Star Warsverhalen.
Der Sekretär macht in seinen Beiträgen keine Werbung. Auch dies ist keine Werbung, aber eine kleine Hommage. Einmal die Woche gibt es einen längeren Podcast «Lage der Nation» von Philip Banse und Ulf Buermeyer (ersterer derzeit in seiner Babypause vertreten von Sandra Schulz), der für den Sekretär seit seiner Entdeckung zum Pflichtprogramm gehört. Aus Berlin wird auf die politische Woche in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt geschaut: Sehr kritisch und hart in der Sache, aber fair, konstruktiv und unaufgeregt, manchmal auch durchaus unterhaltsam. In diesem Jahr sind zusätzlich die «Baustellen der Nation» erschienen, in denen einige grosse Themen vertieft behandelt werden.
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Secretary does not advertise in his posts. This is not an advertisement either, but a little homage. Once a week there is a longer podcast "Lage der Nation" (State of the Nation) by Philip Banse and Ulf Buermeyer (the former is currently being replaced by Sandra Schulz during his parental leave), which has been a must for Sekretär since its discovery. From Berlin, they look at the political week in Germany, Europe and world: Very critical and tough on the issues, but fair, constructive and unexcited, sometimes also thoroughly entertaining. This year, the "Baustellen der Nation" (Construction Sites of the Nation) have also been published, covering some major topics in greater depth.
These birds do have the most extraordinary beaks. The tip of the beak is used like a pair of forceps, to grasp seeds, fruit, nuts, insects and, occasionally, small mammals. The serrated part of the beak is used to crush food items prior to swallowing. Photographed in The Kalahari, Botswana. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography & Fishing Travels" - www.colin-pacitti.com.
Edgar no quiso salir, y tubo que ser sacado con forceps y ventosas, y yo estoy poco más que destrozada, pero bueno ahora en cuanto me recupere, podré disfrutar del enano por completo.
Well I may have jinxed things by saying that the Hoopoe in Collingham has been present for nearly a fortnight as it appears to have flown off overnight. One of the reasons I returned was because I wanted a decent photograph of it playing catch with a grub, in decent light. I know lots of other people have uploaded images of it tossing a Crane-fly larva into the air but here is my best effort. Crane-fly larvae (aka leatherjackets) feed on the roots of plants, especially grasses, and the absence of legs identifies it from any similar moth caterpillars or sawfly larvae. This Hoopoe would immerse the entire length of its bill into the soil and poke around intently, usually emerging with a leatherjacket in the tip of its bill. You then had to judge when it was likely to toss the grub into the air and be ready with the shutter. Each time it did this you could hear the machine-gun fire of dozens of cameras firing simultaneously. By good luck I managed to take many photographs of it with a grub in the air. I was never any good at catching things in my mouth yet this Hoopoe did it all the time. But if you think about it this is the only way it can get a morsel from its bill tip into its gullet. If I had, say, a peanut in my lips, I could manoeuvre my lips until the peanut was on my tongue, which would then manoeuvre it to my teeth to be chewed and swallowed. But birds' mouths are very different. This Hoopoe was picking up leatherjackets by the very tip of its forceps-like bill. But it doesn't have lips to manoeuvre it backwards, and its tongue is hard and far less flexible than ours. So the easiest way to get the leatherjacket from bill tip to gullet is to toss it in the air and catch it. It doesn't have teeth to chew its food, so maceration of food takes place in its gizzard ( a muscular organ near the start of the digestive tract). Birds that eat hard food like seeds eat grit which they retain in their gizzard to help grind up the food.
is the patron saint against abortion and of families, mothers, physicians, unborn children, wives, women struggling to become pregnant and World Meeting of Families 2015.
St. Gianna, patron of those who heroically die so that others can live, pray for us.
St. Gianna, patron of those experiencing hyperemesis gravidarum, long pregnancies, long labors, forceps deliveries, inductions, cesarean births, miscarriage, pregnancy at an advanced maternal age, and perinatal anxiety; those whose children are sick or need regular medications; those who knit; those who dislike watching reruns; those who die to themselves a bit every day; those let down by science and the medical system—pray for us.
Another fairly unusual underwater photo.
People with aquariums worry if their fish swim upside down but it seems to be natural for some fish to do this in certain situations. Here a juvenile Masked bannerfish, Heniochus monoceros ( the black yellow and white one) is swimming upside down in the company of some Crown squirrelfish, Sargocentron diadema ( red and white stripes and bad tempered looking ) and a band of young Striped eel catfish Plotosus lineatus ( strped white and dark grey ones at the back).
Masked bannerfish can also swim the right way up and usually do so when swimming in the open. Another fish that also swims upside down is the forceps butterfly fish ... so far I don't have as good a photo of one doing it.
Swimming upside down under a rock or coral presumably makes it harder for a predator to catch you - it certainly made it more difficult to get the photo.
From Wikipedia: The royal spoonbill is a large, white bird with a black, spoon-shaped bill. It is approximately 80 cm (31 in) tall, 74–81 cm (29–32 in) and a weight of 1.4–2.07 kg (3.1–4.6 lb).[4][5] It is a wading bird and has long legs for walking through water. It eats fish, shellfish, crabs and amphibians, catching its prey by making a side-to-side movement with its bill.
The end of the bill of the royal spoonbill is broader and works more like a pair of tongs than the narrower bill of the yellow-billed spoonbill, which acts like a forceps.
THE TEMPLE OF KOM OMBO is an unusual double temple constructed during the Ptolemaic period, which lasted from 108 to 47 BC. The ancient Egyptian place of worship features a unique engraving that is thought to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.
The relief showing the medical tools is among the most intriguing features of the temple. It can be found in the building’s rear, in the passageway that surrounds the main area. The depicted surgical instruments include scalpels, curettes, forceps, specula, scissors, medicine bottles, and prescriptions. The image is completed with two goddesses sitting on birthing chairs. At the time the relief was carved, Egyptian medical science was almost certainly the most advanced in the world.
Males can reach up to up to 8 centimeters. The males have enlarged jaws, with this genus they are long, thin and forceps-shaped. In any case, pronotum is strikingly hairy. One striking feature is that the males have four facet eyes. These species often have metallic colors on the cover wings. These species reside in higher forests, usually between 2000 and 3000 meters above sea level.
Western Grebes are adept swimmers and divers. Courtship happens entirely in the water, including a well-known display known as “rushing,” where two birds turn to one side, lunge forward in synchrony, their bodies completely out of the water, and race across the water side by side with their necks curved gracefully forward.
A large, elegant, black-and-white grebe, the Western Grebe breeds in lakes and ponds across the American West and winters primarily off the Pacific Coast.
Western Grebes breed on freshwater lakes and marshes with extensive open water bordered by emergent vegetation.
During winter they move to saltwater or brackish bays, estuaries, or sheltered sea coasts and are less frequently found on freshwater lakes or rivers.
Western Grebes eat mainly fish, catching them by diving in open water. They either spear prey or capture it with a forceps-like motion of the bill, taking larger prey items to the surface before swallowing. They also occasionally consume bottom-dwelling crustaceans and worms.
Nests are most often built on floating vegetation hidden among emergent plants; Western Grebes occasionally nest in the open and rarely on land. Both sexes build the nest using material brought from underwater, found floating on the surface, or growing near the nest.
Western Grebes often nest in colonies, with hundreds or even thousands on one lake.
The Western Grebe, like other grebes, spends almost all its time in water and is very awkward when on land. The legs are so far back on the body that walking is very difficult.
(Nikon 300/2.8 + TC 1.7, 1/1600 @ f6.3, ISO 250)
La casa en que nací
Porque entonces se nacía en casa.
Tanto más cuanto que uno fue el primer hijo del Practicante del pueblo, que además era un experto comadrón a quien don Antonio, el médico, encargaba una gran parte de la asistencia a los partos de ese y de trece pueblos más que constituían el partido médico de Puente Almuhey, uno de los cuales era precisamente el mío.
Y así fue como, asistida por don Antonio, mi padre y Alfredo, el hijo del médico, a la sazón estudiante de Medicina, mi pobre madre soportó estoicamente tres días de trabajo de parto sin que yo me decidiese a venir al mundo. Hasta que, exhausta y ya sin fuerzas para seguir con las contracciones, soportó ella más de quince centímetros de fórceps en sus entrañas y soporté yo el hecho que no recuerdo, por suerte, de unas pinzas enormes comprimiendo mis sienes y tirando de mi hacia lo desconocido.
Las dos vueltas de cordón umbilical y la falta de respiración del recién nacido acabaron en unos minutos con un sonoro llanto y una desconsiderada y abundante meada sobre la ropa de Alfredo, el hijo de don Antonio, que fue el encargado de anunciar, después de mis potentes y enfadados exabruptos pulmonares, que el recién nacido estaba vivo, lloraba con ganas y se anunciaba como un verdadero "meón".
Y esa es la historia que podría contar, en el mes de Julio de 1954 al menos, la ventana central de la casa blanca más alta de las que muestra la imagen, la casa del entonces facultativo de minas de la compañía "Hulleras de Prado", mi abuelo Miguel.
No quiero acabar este pequeño relato sin destacar que, incluso sin hojas ni frutos, todos y cada uno de los árboles de esa preciosa huerta, "MI huerta", reconocerían mis pies, mis manos y mis posaderas si algún día vuelvo a subirme a ellos para "vendimiar" sus deliciosas manzanas, peras, cerezas...
Música recomendada: "Espaldas mojadas". Tam Tam Go!
Forficula auricularia, the common earwig or European earwig, is an omnivorous insect in the family Forficulidae. The European earwig survives in a variety of environments and is a common household insect in North America. The name earwig comes from the appearance of the hindwings, which are unique and distinctive among insects, and resemble a human ear when unfolded; the species name of the common earwig, auricularia, is a specific reference to this feature. They are considered a household pest because of their tendency to invade crevices in homes and consume pantry foods, and may act either as a pest or as a beneficial species depending on the circumstances.
Forficula auricularia is reddish brown in color, with a flattened and elongate body, and slender, beaded antennae. An obvious feature of earwigs is the pair of 'pincers' or forceps at the tip of the flexible abdomen. Both sexes have these pincers; in males they are large and very curved, whereas in females they are straight. Nymphs are similar to adults in appearance, but their wings are either absent or small.
Males can reach up to up to 8 centimetres. The males have enlarged jaws, with this genus they are long, thin and forceps-shaped. In any case, pronotum is strikingly hairy. One striking feature is that the males have four facet eyes. These species often have metallic colors on the cover wings. These species reside in higher forests, usually between 2000 and 3000 meters above sea level.
Este macho de Onychogomphus forcipatus estaba posado en el suelo y me dejó acercarme hasta él cuando empezó a abrir sus pinzas y mantenerlas así. Pensaba que iba a defecar, pero no.
Fotograma recortado un 6% y adaptado a formato 16:9
En el río Chícamo. La Umbría (Murcia) España
This male of Onychogomphus forcipatus was perched on the ground and allowed me to approach him when he started to open his claws and keep them that way. I thought I was going to defecate, but no.
Frame cut by 6% and adapted to 16: 9 format
In the Chícamo river. The Umbria (Murcia) Spain
A 4.6mm long nymph (excluding antennae & forceps) beaten from nettles. Conventional wisdom says this should still be in a nest, being tended by its mother. Some precocious nymphs do apparently leave the nest early, but who knows how many, and what the 'default' situation really is?
Cound, Shropshire.