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We were staying at a place with a tree-level deck, and I was hoping for some good bird shots. The birds just didn't show up for me, but the wasps sure did...
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Le scarabée rhinocéros européen, Oryctes nasicornis, est une espèce d'insectes coléoptères de la famille des Scarabaeidae et de la sous-famille des Dynastinae.
Chez Oryctes nasicornis, le dimorphisme sexuel est marqué. La tête du mâle est surmontée d'une longue corne recourbée en arrière, d'où son nom vernaculaire de rhinocéros. Pendant la saison des amours, il l'utilise comme arme pour soulever ses adversaires puis les projeter au sol pour éviter que ceux-ci ne s'accouplent avec la femelle. Cette dernière est dépourvue de corne.
The European rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes nasicornis, is a species of beetle insect in the family Scarabaeidae and subfamily Dynastinae.
In Oryctes nasicornis, sexual dimorphism is marked. The male's head is topped with a long horn curved backwards, hence its vernacular name rhinoceros. During the mating season, he uses it as a weapon to lift his opponents and then throw them to the ground to prevent them from mating with the female. The female is hornless.
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Powdered dancer. Most of my damselfly shots are in the field, but they pass through the gardens at times. This one lingered for quite a while, still there after I came back from downloading images from the first session...
The mutabilis rose bush has been very productive the last week or so. Seems like most of the flowers are occupied by either a cucumber beetle or one of these flower flies...
On the gaura flowers, like last season. I've only seen these on the gaura plants, and I've never seen any other insects on gaura plants...interesting...
Cette jolie petite mouche jaune avec l’abdomen tout rond est une tachinaire, dont la larve se développe en endoparasite de plusieurs espèces de punaises pentatomidés.
Gymnosoma cf. rotundatum Linné, 1758
En anglais, on la nomme « ladybird fly », la mouche coccinelle, à cause bien sur de son abdomen jaune orangé avec des points noirs.
Suddenly I'm seeing these very young (or very small!) grasshoppers around the house - this one was sitting on a mistflower leaf...
Spotted in the garden... "Braconid wasps are Mother Nature's way of keeping pests like hornworms under control. These parasitic wasps disrupt their host insect's development, effectively stopping the pest in its tracks. Braconid wasps are parasitoids, meaning they eventually kill their hosts."
Quite a bit of action around the lantanas this afternoon. A pair of these ladies were fluttering around, posing every now and then...
That small yellow sack on his side is a Halter - one of a pair of small club-shaped organs that provide information about body rotations during flight. Halteres oscillate rapidly along with the wings and operate like vibrating structure gyroscopes. Watch them in action at ibycter.com/high-speed-arthropod-week-day-4-halteres/
ID corrections welcomed.
21 Oct 2019, Columbia, SC, USA.
Yet another of these colorful little critters, this one nestled in the leaves of a hardy hibiscus plant...
This guy was vigorously rubbing his body with his hind legs - they are quite powerful, enabling jumps of up to several body lengths - note the spines.
In case you're wondering - "... the male Dogface has a black border on the forewing, outlining what resembles a “poodle” head, which is where the term dogface stems from." Kind of funny to picture a butterfly with a dog's face, though.
Here working our lantanas...
They're starting to fade now, but the asters have provided quite a few shots the last few weeks. Happy Fly Day Friday!
The Drone fly, one of the first hoverflies I see in my garden. Sadly none yet, this is a very old one from the archives.
Looks like a Celia's roadside skipper. These mystic spire salvia flowers are very attractive, it seems...