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an Orius niger bug found in gorse growing opposite the visitor centre of Hastings Country Park - thanks are owed once again to Maria for help with identification
What is this insect? I found it searching, with a very rushed and erratic demeanor, for something outside my front door, waving its antennae conspicuously. Evidently, in its haste it had been blundering through cobwebs, and I got the feeling it had travelled a fair distance. And what is that strange furry growth on the left side of its thorax? Could it be the victim of a mind-controlling parasite? After I had finished a session with it in the white-box, I placed it in a garden-bed, and it proceeded up a tree quite mindlessly.
J'ai vu plusieurs Cicindèles hier qui se promenaient ou se posaient sur le sable du seniter au soleil... Au soleil son coprs brille comme un bijou... Un joyau, un émeraude!!
La Cicindèle champêtre est un beau coléoptère vert, parfois bleuâtre, plus rarement noirâtre. C'est un insecte chasseur redoutable d'une grande rapidité et d'un appétit féroce. Elle attrape ses proies à la course et effectue des vols courts en cas de danger. Sa larve, également carnivore, vit dans un terrier vertical où elle attend qu'une proie passe à sa portée.
Higgins Lake, Roscommon, Michigan, USA.
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I was somewhat surprised to see this bug outside my room soon after dawn.
Help with ID would be welcome.
Strobist: one SB600 at 1/64 and 85mm held high overhead, balancing against the faint light of the insect.. Started by exposing for the green "lamp" and then added fill.
Have been laid up in bed for two days with a bout of flu, but took a walk round the garden today for some fresh air. Also wanted to get some photos of my Snake's Head Fritillaries. Was surprised by the number of ladybirds, but how nice to see.
#37 Small for 111 pictures in 2011 group.
WONDER exhibit, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Jennifer Angus (1961– )
In the Midnight Garden
2015
cochineal, various insects, and mixed media
Courtesy of Jennifer Angus
"Angus's genius is the embrace of what is wholly natural, if unexpected. Yes, the insects are real, and no, she has not altered them except to position their wings and legs. The species in this gallery are not endangered, but in fact are quite abundant, primarily in Malaysia, Thailand, and Papua New Guinea, a corner of the world where Nature seems to play with greater freedom. The pink wash is derived from cochineal insect living on cacti in Mexico, where it has long been prized as the best source of the color red. By altering the context in which we encounter such species, Angus startles us into recognition of what has always been a part of our world."