Blue Ameraucana (front), Black Copper Marans (middle), and Blue Laced Red Wyandotte (back)

Butterflies emerge from their bead like cocoons in the Natural History Museum butterfly house.

I'm hatching

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Nest hatch! You can see the first hole in the egg on the right, with the chick's egg tooth sticking out!

Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin Co., CA

Photos taken during US Fish and Wildlife Service permitted monitoring.

Yesterday, the Braconid wasps began emerging from their cocoons. The process was so quick. Some of them were pushing through and out in as little as a few seconds. Each cocoon is no bigger than a small, dry piece of rice--so you can imagine the depth of field I'm working with! It was very difficult to get precise focus, particularly with a rare shot like this where siblings are meeting face-to-face.

These are the times when I wish I had a better, bigger sensor. This is about a 70% crop and it really break down the closer you get. 30+ megapixels and that fabulous 105mm would really shine. Alas, we were happy just to be around to see them emerge. We all watched about 10 or so pop out and then I dispatched the wasps cocoons and their poor, suffering mind-controlled host who was still alive after this whole ordeal.

Seriously, what is going on here?!

Button quail

South Africa

Found in the garden-Is this a blackbird egg?

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Shieldbug egg sequence. Focus stacked using zerene

Yorkshire wildlife park

The witch's egg begins to hatch...

A stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus) emerging from leaf litter on the woodland floor.

Photographed in the Moss Valley near Sheffield.

Photo taken at 09.26.

Click here for a photo of the same specimen, taken six hours later.

Click here for a photo of an unhatched stinkhorn egg.

Drawing 1

hanging by a thread

Ameraucana, duck, bantam, and other assorted eggs

Button quail that hatched less than three hours ago.

on kantenah beach, as i was heading back i noticed that one of the beaches many turtle nests was begining to move a little, moments later heads emerged

Bishops Square, Spitalfields

羽化してました。

Panasonic G1＋C.Z.Jena Tessar 50mm F2.8

Chonburi, Thailand

dust to dust

great crested grebe [Podiceps cristatus] with 3 eggs

L2 larvae coming out of the eggsack. The whole was made by the small spiderlings or by the mother

Close up of succulent in hand planter at my Home in Seattle, WA. Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T6 on August 30, 2018

13.00

A developing single blossom of euphorbia pulcherrima. The mouth will spend nectar to attract insects.

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Eine Einzelblüte des Weihnachsstern in der Entwicklung. Der Mund gibt später Nektar für die Insekten ab

These eggs were laid on the 26,9,10 and hatched today on the 21 11 10 yay!!!!