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Ladybirds hibernating hidden in a sunscreen.
Bad dark circumstances to take a picture, but it was worth to try it.
Most ladybirds, also known as ladybugs and lady beetles, can live for several years. To survive the cold winters we experience throughout most of Europe, they must go into a special type of hibernation called diapause.
Some ladybirds can congregate together in very large numbers when they find a good place to hibernate. This mass gathering of insects is known as aggregation.
These critters will diapause in all sorts of places. The two main requirements they look for in an overwintering site are warmth and protection.
Diapause is a form of hibernation insects use, it doesn’t involve sleeping.
To put it simply, they shut down their system for the winter to survive the cold.
The other adult desert tortoise in our yard, Eddie, having his first bite to eat since October. He had been hibernating in the burrow he dug in our desert garden, and yesterday came out to sit in the sun. These tortoises are a protected species, and are not allowed to be bought or sold, or taken from the wild as "pets" -- but many years ago, before that legal protection existed, some people in the desert southwest picked them up took them home to their yards -- and since they have long lifespans, many of them are still around.
We are at least the third home in our neighborhood to house Eddie (and our other tortoise, Bob); in other words, these two reptiles have lived on our street longer than most of the people here.
Captive tortoises may not be released back to the wild, as many of them carry a respiratory illness that could decimate the wild populations. Both Eddie and Bob are registered with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and are thus legal for me to keep. If the time comes to re-home them, the California Turtle and Tortoise Society is sanctioned to find them new adoptive homes (and is a great resource for proper care).
The Vancouver Island black bear is blacker in colour than the mainland bear and is considered slightly larger, the females growing up to 180 kg, and the males reaching 275 kg. This is likely as a result of Vancouver Island being a genetically “older” variation of the bear, having remained relatively isolated from the mainland breeding pool.
Contrary to popular belief, the bears do not truly hibernate, but enter a state more similar to a deep sleep. Unlike true hibernators, their metabolic activity is still close to normal, and their body temperature does not drop more than a few degrees.
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Notice the size of the rain drops in the stream - so big the bear thinks that they may be fish jumping.
Any further back would've required me to step into a BUSY road so this is the best side-on I could accomplish.
Unless I'm mistaken, this is a Halyzia sedecimguttata. It's hibernating in a crevice in an ash tree. If you're looking for it, it's in the tree to the right of the tree with the stick in it. You can't miss it! 😄
365/13 - Year 11 Photo 3300
Hibernation dans le sens réel pour moi au niveau photo, vu la température froide. J'en profite pour réaliser un vieux rêve: développer une application Web permettant de générer des cadavre exquis à la volée, aussi divertissant qu'inutile n'est-ce pas, mais un beau défi:
Cette application s'améliore de jour en jour, elle est déjà impressionnante, mais je pense que dans quelques mois ce sera vraiment fantastique!... ;-)
Stuck in the city, I was desperately looking for something to photograph when I spotted these go-karts clustered together in the middle of a bend in the track
Everything really is shutting down for winter now!
One of the tree's overhanging the Upper Woman's Way Lake at the NT property Sheffield Park
The American Century (left) and American Spirit are tied up in Duluth for the winter. The tug Helen H breaks ice to make room for the Philip R. Clarke to join the den. The BNSF ore cars in the foreground are stored as well, but hopefully will return to service this March when Keewatin Taconite restarts production.
This is a cute pattern I got from polka dot bunny www.flickr.com/photos/chezbunny/ a while ago, I was saving him to sew later on in the year, but with being off work and I notice the leaves are changing colour already I figured it was time.
I made him a bit bigger than the original pattern as I was going to add more colours on the wood grain, but once I started stitching, I think it was coming out too dense, so I have just added some running stitches and seed stitch details.
I couldn't believe my eyes today when I saw this butterfly walking on patio slabs at work.
He was to weak to fly, just able to walk - so decided to move him closer to flowering heather. Hopefuly he's having his lunch now ;-)
40/365 for 2015 : one photo each day group
Unbelievable as it seems (to me anyway!) my ex Turner of Brown Edge Daimler Fleetline JBF 169N has been tucked away in a shared barn now for nearly two years. A couple of days ago, with two new batteries fitted the old girl burst into life and eased out into the spring sunshine ready for a spruce up. Shortly the bus should carry out a requested engagement carrying guests at a wedding of a member of the former Turner family so there's some tidying up to do.
This must be 'the' week for former Turner's buses, because we were also delighted to hear that the only other survivor Fleetline LVT 699V, (their last new service bus), has just left the paintshop to embark on it's new life as a restored bus too.
My tortoise came out of hibernation today, making it 57 winters he's survived in my ownership!
Having weighed him before and after hibernation, he lost 3.7% of his body weight during the five months he was asleep.
The bats do it. The bears do it and the hedgehogs do it too. Perhaps when you have a cat that looks like a bat it might also sleep all winter.
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