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When I took this photo I could see the spider was moving, but I had no idea he was in the process of spinning a web. I guess that is part of the appeal of macro photography; sometimes there are wonderful surprises.
As a general rule cicadas emerge at night and I don't get to watch. This Linne's Cicada (Tibicen linnei) for some unknown reason emerged around noon so I was lucky enough to get to photograph the process. His high-pitched, rapidly pulsating song will soon be heard along with other cicadas in the nearby trees.. Mt. Pleasant, Howard County Concervancy, Maryland
Ingeniousness....Many animals feed on caterpillars as they are rich in protein. As a result caterpillars have evolved various means of defense. The appearance of a caterpillar can often repel a predator: its markings and certain body parts can make it seem poisonous, or bigger in size and thus threatening, or non-edible. Some types of caterpillars are indeed poisonous, some have long "whip-like" organs attached to the ends of their body. The caterpillar wiggles these organs to frighten away flies.
from Wikipedia
Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 90mm + Ring Flash + Handheld.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is a gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are His workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus unto good works, which God
hath before ordained that we should walk
in them.
Ephesians 2:8-10 (KJV)
Males are often more strikingly coloured, patterned or adorned with leg or body hair tufts than are females. They use these adornments to impress the females during often elaborate courtship displays. No group illustrates this better than the southern Australia jumpers of the genus Maratus (= Saitis). Its members could justifiably be called peacock spiders, both for the bright colours of the males and the way that they display them. Males have flap-like lateral extensions of the abdomen that fold down along each side and are edged by white hairs. When a red, blue and black coloured male of Maratus volans courts his relatively nondescript mate, he expands and raises the lateral flaps so that the abdomen forms a white-fringed, circular field of colour which is tilted up towards the female above the brightly coloured carapace, a truly spectacular sight.
Scientific name: Mopsus mormon
Family: Salticidae
Order: Araneae
Equipment: Canon 40D + Speedlite EX 430II + Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di
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Explore #218
my work so tight todaY..
uuwwaa.. TiReD..
I got tagged from MIss KimberlyClark...
Well here are my listing 16 randoms things about me...
Let start.. 1.. 2.. 3..
1 : I'm a GirL.. so sporty.. so kind.. I live in Malaysia...
2 : Some friend call me azriena, riena, sis, but mostly i love who called me azriena ;)
3 : I'm 29 years oLd.. siNgLe not married yet...
4 : I love my boyfriend so much n hope will get married next year...
5 : I love dragon ball cartoon so much till now... can't wait for this film soon...
6 : When i want to sleep i playing a guitar n singing to myself...
7 : I love my father's cooked...
8 : I've big laught.. (so bad) sometime make funny like crazy...
9 : As a kid I wanted to become a air hostess...
10 : I love purple sometimes turquoise make me crazy...
11 : I want to play in snow...
12 : I love my garden (greenhouse)...its make time to do it..not complete yet..
13 : I work to hard...sometime i hate myself!!!! i do it my friends paper work..
i likeall work make it faster!!!!!! dont like wasted time n weak person...
14 : I love my huge family.. all of them to care about me... i've 2 niece so qute
(Dania & Dini) DND...
15 : I hate lier... example: if u stay at Malaysia just tell the truth..
don't cheat where your place..
16 : I can't stop watching korea drama n love korea language forever....
Reminds me of the song we sang when I was in public grade school ! Nice to reminisce your happy childhood days !
Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont, NC.
Strobist Info"
580EX II w/ Mini-Softbox High Camera Left
Jumping spiders are Scopula bearing spiders, which means that they have a very interesting Tarsal section. And the end of each leg they have hundreds of tiny hairs, which each then split into hundreds more tiny hairs, each tipped with an "end foot". These thousands of tiny feet allow them to climb up and across virtually any terrain. They can even climb up glass by gripping onto the tiny imperfections, usually an impossible task for any spider.
Jumping spiders also use their silk to weave small tent-like dwellings where females can protect their eggs, and which also serve as a shelter while moulting.
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Explore on Wed Feb 11,2009 #416
There are some broken leaves on it.. it just like our life..there will be unperfect things happened.
All the Best to all of u including myself =)
The Gray Pansy or Junonia atlites is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia.
from Wikipedia
Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 90mm + Ringflash + Handheld.
Some of the Maple trees in the neighborhood this year are full of seeds. They are so numerous in some trees that there are more seeds than leaves.
The distinctive fruit are called samaras or "maple keys". These seeds, or 'whirlybirds,' occur in distinctive pairs each containing one seed enclosed in a "nutlet" attached to a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue. They are shaped to spin as they fall and to carry the seeds a considerable distance on the wind. Children often call them "helicopters" due to the way that they spin as they fall. One tree can release hundreds of thousands of seeds at a time. Depending on the species, the seeds can be small and green to orange and big with thicker seed pods. The green seeds are released in pairs, sometimes with the stems still connected. (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple )