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Hornet Mimic Hoverfly. 4x
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This incredible leaf mimic even has "holes" (actually, not holes but clear membranes) in its wings, like a decaying leaf. Best guess is Chorotypus sp.; Sabah, Borneo.
Hornet Mimic Hoverfly | Volucella zonaria | Syrphidae
Certainly the biggest Hoverfly I've ever seen.
Samsung NX1 & LZOS Jupiter 9 - 85mm f/2
16mm Macro Tube | 15 Aperture Blades | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
Skiathos | Northern Sporades | Aegean Sea | Greece
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3am
After a long day of exploring dungeons and slaying dragons, a Human Bard and a Treant Fighter decide to spend the night in the small town of Yellowstone. Despite the small size of the place, it's filled with shops, taverns and merchants trying to sell you low quality gear and weapons at every corner.
The two walk into an empty tavern run by a friendly four-armed bartender and order a couple of beers. After they both had a couple of drinks a big group of people enter the tavern as well. They try to take some seats, but soon find themselves taken by surprise as the chairs and tables come alive as soon as they are touched. It doesn't take long for the Bard and Fighter to figure out what is going on; a group of Mimics seem to have found a way into the village, disguising themselves as regular items hoping to find some easy prey.
Although they manage to kill the couple of Mimics in the tavern with ease, a quick look outside the window fills them with dread. Dozens of Mimics disguised as barrels, books, chests and even chessboards, have awoken and are now terrorizing the townsfolk with even more swarming out of the homes.
Will the two manage to save the town, or will they get overwhelmed by this infestation of Mimics?
A small ant mimic jumping spider hanging out on a leaf, for some reason i tried a BW and preferred it.
Right in my own back yard!!! I really should have been packing last night, as I'm headed to my dad's tomorrow, but I couldn't help grabbing my camera and taking a spin around the yard. I'm so glad I did! I haven't seen many of these, and it's been four years since I saw the last. And I had NO idea they were right in my own yard! I shined the light up into the branches of the big Southern Magnolia, and as soon as I laid eye on this "ant" I felt a thrill of excitement, knowing it was probably no ant, sitting stationary all by itself on that leaf. He turned around to look at me, but kept his position. In photos I noticed he's actually tucked below silken threads of a retreat he's made there, so that is his "home". I went back this morning and, sure enough, he's still there.
7 Arachtober 2023
Ant-mimic jumping spider, Synemosyna formica
Alexandria, VA • 7 October 2023
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.” -A.S.
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Great excitement here in our Brisbane garden for me on 8/2/21. Back in 2014 I photographed a wasp mimic bee (Hyleoides concinna) on a leaf in our garden, not aware of what it was until someone (Bernhard Jacobi : www.flickr.com/photos/29697818@N03 ) identified it for me. I’ve been hoping to see one ever since then.
Recently I’d been puzzling over some strange filigree-like structures in holes in one of my oldest bee homes, and today I got the answer. A wasp mimic bee has made at least 7 nests in the hotel, alongside mud cupped nests belonging to the spectacular wasp, Rhynchium superbum. Today I saw the bee investigating holes and also entering a couple of her nests through the centre of the woven curtain. She’s made some of her nests in holes previously housing old Megachile and wasp nests.
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Not in focus but I like it anyway. Hover fly. Probably Simosyrphus grandicornis, family Syrphidae, or a close relative. They mimic bees and or wasps but are flies. And they hover.
The latest adventuring party finds themselves in a little bit of a pickle when they accidentally stumble upon a mimic disguised as a treasure chest!
I haven't built anything in a while, so I thought I'd do another D&D themed MOC. This time around I decided to do a more traditional vignette, and I also thought I'd try something new with how I did the floor.
The human bard has treasure in his sights! Unfortunately the treasure chest he tried to open transforms into a monstrous mimic! Before anyone can react, the surprised bard finds his foot stuck to the mimic like glue. The tiefling warlock springs into action, sending an eldritch blast hurtling towards the monster. The human monk stands in silence, fascinated by the creature that's about to devour his friend. The elf rogue, still distracted by the thought of treasure, asks for help reaching the key for the actual treasure chest. If the adventurers survive this encounter, maybe they will find some useful items on the skeletal remains of the mimic's last meal: the unlucky wizard who created it.
-Taylor
...and best viewed large.
Good morning and Happy Butterfly Monday to everyone. I need to keep things simple the first part of this week so just a single posting today of a female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) I captured resting in the afternoon sun, which allowed for only this open wing shot.
For those of you not familiar with this species of butterfly, there are two morphs of adult female Tiger Swallowtails, a yellow and the above dark one. The yellow morph is similar to the male, but in the dark morph, most of the yellow areas are replaced with dark grey to a black. The dark form is more common in the Southern portions of its range, especially in areas also inhabited by the Pipevine swallowtail, which it seems to mimic. About one in four female Tiger Swallowtail females I've seen this season have been black, which is about normal for here.
Thank you for visiting...and I hope you have a truly great Monday and week.
Lacey
ISO400, aperture f/8, exposure .004 seconds (1/250) focal length 260mm
"There is nothing quite as magical as friendship, or so I have been told. It can make one being risk everything and take foolish chances with little hope of reward. It can also make someone incredibly easy to manipulate. Mimic is an example of the latter."
MLK Regional Shoreline seems to always provide us with birding photography opportunities. We spotted two Mockingbirds singing to each other. This bird was ok with us taking its picture as it took a break from singing to watch us. Both male and female mockingbirds sing. They often mimic the sounds of birds (and frogs) around them, including shrikes, blackbirds, orioles, killdeer, jays, hawks, and many others. They go on learning new sounds throughout their lives.
"There is nothing quite as magical as friendship, or so I have been told. It can make one being risk everything and take foolish chances with little hope of reward. It can also make someone incredibly easy to manipulate. Mimic is an example of the latter."
This find was a real treat. I'm not sure of the exact species, but ant mimics are fascinating, with body shapes that differ wildly from most of the Salticids I'm used to. I believe this one was a female.
-Gear and Settings-
Fujifilm X-T3 w/ Laowa 60mm Ultra Macro at ~1.5x magnification.
f8, SS 1/250, ISO 400
Lit with the kit flash diffused by paper mounted on the lens.
Lightly cropped and edited in CaptureOne with minor additional edits in Photoshop.
This curious insect belongs to the group of treehoppers belonging to family Membracidae. It is also called thorn Mimic treehopper as it looks like a thorn. most treehoppers are considered as pest, but some like Leptocentrus taurus was found feeding on the noxious weed Parthenium hysterophorus in Chuadanga, Bangladesh, thus acting as potential biological control agents. I found this Leptocentrus species on a Smooth rattlepod (Crotalaria pallida)plant.
I liked the way that when the tide was just right, it mimicked the shape in the clouds. It was just a case of timimng the shot right.
A young girl mimics the stance of dissident Irish Republicans parading outside the GPO in Dublin to commemorate the Easter Rising in 1916.
Another remarkable find in the Sicilian garden. This little fly was warming-up in the morning sunshine. It was just a few millimetres long.
As it came into focus through the viewfinder, I thought for a second that it was in fact a jumping spider. Those shiny black "eyes" on the thorax and those multi-coloured real eyes, had me fooled. It even turned its false eyes towards me as I moved.
Anyway, it's obviously a fly; a tephritid picture-wing fly perhaps? It's a surprisingly good spider-mimic too.
[Update: I've been advised that this is Ceratitis capitata; the Mediterranean fruit fly. A destructive fruit pest and recognised jumping-spider mimic.]