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The jewels off summer. A beautiful metallic golden green beetle seen in the UK from May-September. Adults can often be seen in warm sunny weather obtaining pollen and nectar from Hog weed, Rose flowers, Bramble Gorse and Elderberries. Larvae will feed on rotten wood of old stumps. Photographed in a part of leafy suburban London, who said you can only find the most beautiful looking insects in the tropical rain forest.
This tropical butterfly can also be known as the Blue-Banded Purple Wing, Whitened Bluewing, Tropical Blue Wave or the Royal Blue. As this butterfly moves around the iridescent blue purple on the wings can actually change colour depending on the angle of the sun. The adults are not great nectar feeders and prefer to feed on rotten fruits. Adult males tend to sit on tree trunks waiting for a female to pass by. Found from Central and south America.
A large slender-bodied damselfly with a stunning metallic green colour where as the male is a blue green colour with dark patches on the wings. Often found over slow flowing streams and rivers on waterside vegetation. Can be seen from mid May to mid September. Dragonflies and Damselflies belong to the order of insects called Odonata which in ancient Greek means 'toothed jaw'. There are about 5,500 Odonata species know in the world today with around 52 recorded in the British Isles.
Larger that the Green Bottle Fly and found common in many continents which include Europe, Americas and Africa, also a species of blow fly. Adults will tend to feed on nectar and females will deposit their eggs on rotten corpses and this is why they make important forensic insects as their eggs and the timing of oviposition can be used to help estimate time of death. The name Bluebottle is an old name that is shared with the Portuguese Man-O-War and certain blue flowers.
61st Imagoism Thursday
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This spider is usually found low down in vegetation in a funnel web often in brambles, gorse and heather, In late summer the female will construct a chamber within the web which is made up of a complex maze of silken tubes that will contain her egg sac and will often be seen guarding the entrance. The spiders main primary function is to quickly immobilize and subdue its prey and start the digesting process. The venom can contain many different substances which can include amino acids, proteolytic enzymes and neurotoxic polypeptides. Once a spider has caught its prey and will want to eat its food the first step is to literally vomit a digestive fluid all over the food and then to chew the item with the jaws (chelicerae), then on to suck up the fluid back into the mouth together with the liquified meat. Some spiders can produce at least six different kinds of silk and if spiders were scaled to the same size as us it is said that the Web would be strong enough to catch a helicopter. It has also been claimed that a cable of silk as thick as a thumb woven from spider silk would be able to bear the weight of a jumbo jet. Unfortunately most of us have been brought up in life from young children to fear a spider and most will feel sorry for the bee straight away but how many feel sorry for the bee in a beak of a stunning looking Bee-Eater Bird or the Stickleback fish repeatably being hit on a branch before being swallowed down whole by a stunning blue King Fisher or even a earth worm that snaps in half when being pulled out of the ground by our friendly Robbin in our gardens. The answer is not many as all three do not have eight legs and look like a spider, its a funny old world that we live in.
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This is a little flower from an oxalis indoor plant which I bought the other day. We visited a gardening centre to buy this and that and came home with lots of plants for indoors and outdoors. The area we live in is so green and flowers everywhere and you see people have a multitude of pots filled with plants and flowers outside their houses so we want to start doing the same. In London we only had the plants and flowers in the garden but here the possibilities are endless!
I took the photo on the terrace as I put the oxalis plant outside during the day and without realising it I was afforded a lovely blue background as one of the sun bed mattresses was propped up in a corner. I like the contrast of the blue against the pinkness of the little flower.
Happy Sundays all round! :-)
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# my first view of a lady bug - under a dandelion ! - Coccinellidae + Taraxum officinales
Happy Tuesday for every one !
While waiting in the front yard one day, for the Hummingbird to come and visit. All of a sudden this wonderfully beautiful Hummingbird came to visit our garden, for it's rewards of sweet nectar from our Aloe Vera Flowers. Such a extraordinary capture full of wonderful details of "Nature's Smallest Bird". Hope Y'all like it. !! Lol.
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Thanks to everyone who responded to this Awesome image, I am very happy that you liked this moment in time, you are all my insperation to make me strive to do even better in art of Photography, Thanks to all and God Bless. !!! Gaston (aka Gasssman)
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Common Name : Bee-Fly or Bombyliidae.
I don't really have a title for this picture. Any help, will be appreciated.
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The red dog bin in my local park came in very handy for this one. The spider's main primary function is to quickly immobilize and subdue its prey and start the digesting process. The venom can contain many different substances which can include amino acids, proteolytic enzymes and neurotoxic polypeptides. This adult female has not quite finished her meal here. Once a spider has caught its prey and will want to eat its food the first step is to literally vomit a digestive fluid all over the food and then to chew the item with the jaws (chelicerae), then on to suck up the fluid back into the mouth together with the liquified meat.
The Goal was to combine the Flickr Fridays Theme and Macro Mondays in one shot.
Flicker Mondays theme is shadows. Where there is no need, to include the object itself. Macro Fridays, war redo, like repeat or do it again. And for Macro Mondays there are size restrictions, too. Maximum size of 75 mm or 3 “.
Anyway, all these pictures include shadows and repeated pattern. Therefore, photos were made with two different sizes of forks, smaller one and larger one. Started with 5 of larger onces and then reduced to 4, 3, 2 and one, and repeat with the smaller once. And partly, just for fun a caliper was include to measure the size of the shadows. In Total approx. 30 pictures,
As for the making of, these photos, sometimes in the afternoon, on a black plate of slate, normally used as coaster at my dining table or the balcony table
Feel free to leave comments and constructive feedback. No P1/C1 or seen in group and similar. I will delete these mostly, especially with a big logo.