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..you are literally what the cat dragged in :(
An uncharacteristically glum dragonfly in recovery after being presented to me as a 'gift' from my cat.
Focus stack = 3 images (F13, 1/160sec, iso100).
Canon 100mm macro lens, 1.4x teleconverter plus 36mm extension tube.
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juvenile Wagler's pit viper + banded mangrove snake, yellow ringed cat snake
Tropidolaemus wagleri + Boiga dendrophila melanota
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spent an awesome morning with Dave(cotaar) and Theresa(keleka656), both flickr contacts and superb photographers, shooting in the greenhouses of the Chicago Botanic Garden....and to start of the Valentine's week, i'm posting this shot of 3 ladybugs getting it on....in fact, there were a handful of these shy insects just getting it on....i think Al Green's song "Let's Get It On" was playing in the background....pls. View On Black
flies are usually always some of the first subjects to readily pose in the spring
backyard capture in chesterfield
Nikon D200 Micro-Nikkor 55mm 1:3.5 + TC-200 Teleconverter
1/250 sec - f/16 - ISO 400 - Exp comp +0.7EV SB-600 Speedlight on camera with diffuser.
Pain In The Neck -
Have you come across a tiny longhorn with hairy chest and limbs? I saw one the other day with turfs even on his antennae; and he was so bushy hair was sprouting from every pore. The next amazing thing was the longhorn piggyback a tawdry red seed on his shoulder. “I was a greenhorn and this bloodsucker fooled me into believing he was helping to eat my dead skin,” said the beetle. “He used to ride on my rear but now his head is burrowed in my collar bone. Soon he will go all the way up, my nutritious brain juice to maintain his rosy looks.” The beetle waiting to be heard wants to get rid, the tick waiting to be told wants to hang on. Who am I to decide who had the right to thrive? I look on with amusement and left them alone.
Eight-Legged Cobra -
Along a blissful avenue aligned with orange blossoms, two spiders were playing a game of merriment. The lad would hide and the lass count to ten and seek. The female spider was outstanding in demeanor and I was infatuated at first sight. Deep tan complexion, gorgeous lime-green belly etched with swimming tadpoles; her beauty spit like a cobra in my eyes. Flustered by my close presence, she glanced up and I returned a nervous smile. You can’t get blood out of stone but innate charm will ooze from spiders without effort.
A tiny 2mm beetle crawls around among the stamens feeding on micro sized pollen grains in the quince flower on our quince tree in our garden today
A macro shot of tiny native beetle, climbs up a seed heads of a blade of grass looking for grubs . In the early morning sunlight, on the banks of the stream by our place
A Weevil is any beetle from the Curculionoidea superfamily. They are usually small, less than 6 mm (¼ inch), and herbivorous. Due to the shape of their heads, weevils are commonly known as snout beetles. There are over 60,000 species in several families, mostly in the family Curculionidae (the true weevils). Some other beetles, although not closely related, bear the name "weevil", such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum), which belongs to the family Anobiidae.
Acorn weevils have snouts with small, saw-like teeth at the very end. There are two types, or genera: the long-snouted acorn weevils (genus Curculio) and the short-snouted ones (genus Conotrachelus). The longsnouted Acorn weevil's snout may be equal to or greater than the length of its body. These specimens are, of course, the long-snouted variety.
Adults of both genera feed on acorns, but only the long snouted weevils can drill into the shells to feed and lay eggs inside the nutmeat. The tip of the snouth is actually a miniature saw, and the weevil places the tip against the shell, circling endlessly around the pivot point until the shell is pierced. Females place eggs inside the nut using a long ovipositorthat descends from the abdomen.
Grub-like Acorn weevil larvae hatch from eggs a few days after they are laid. There may be one to several Acorn weevil larvae in each acorn. Larvae typically go through five growth stages, or instars. Each instar ends with the molt or shedding of the old skin, providing the larva with more room to grow. After a few weeks, larvae chew their way out of the acorn, burrow into the soil to pupate, and eventually emerge as adults the next year. Short-snouted larvae usually exit from a single hole that already exists in the acorn, but long-snouted larvae may chew their own exit hole through the acorn shell. Like larvae of the short-snouted Acorn weevil, acorn moth larvae can feed only on damaged or sprouting acorns. The grayish female acorn moths lay eggs in damaged acorns, sometimes in the emergence holes of acorn weevil larvae. It's easy to distinguish the acorn moth larva, a caterpillar, from Acorn weevil larvae. The acorn moth larva has three pairs of legs near the head and is generally longer than the legless, fat larvae of Acorn weevils. Larvae of the acorn moth feed on acorns and probably on the fungi that often grow in damaged acorns. They usually pupate inside the acorns.
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