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A flash of green and red, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird is eastern North America’s sole breeding hummingbird. These brilliant, tiny, precision-flying creatures glitter like jewels in the full sun, then vanish with a zip toward the next nectar source. Feeders and flower gardens are great ways to attract these birds, and some people turn their yards into buzzing clouds of hummingbirds each summer. Enjoy them while they’re around; by early fall they’re bound for Central America, with many crossing the Gulf of Mexico in a single flight.
From www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-throated_Hummingbird/id
If you look carefully you will see the extended tongue of the female hummingbird.
Absolutely cute as a button, this Ruby-crowned Kinglet looks resolute in a bush on the ridge in Britannia Woods, Oct 12, 2012.
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The ruby-tailed wasp (Chrysis ignita) is a common species of cuckoo wasp with a distribution area going from UK and Ireland to Europe, Russia, China and Japan.
As the name implied, cuckoo wasps are parasites, specifically parasitoïds (which mean the larva purposely kills the host).
The wasp breaks in its host's nest and lay an egg neer the host's egg, generally, the ruby-tailed wasp's hosts are potter wasps but it has been observed parasiting numbers of other wasps and bees.
There's two types of parasiting strategies for larvea:
- The larve eat the host egg or host larva and then eat the food ressources in the nest.
- The larva wait until the host larva enter prepupal stage (the stage before pupae which is the stage that allow metamorphosis) after it consumed all the ressources in the nest to then eat it.
Because the intrusion in a nest often lead to a confrontation with the nest builder, cuckoo wasp have a thick cuticle (insect's exoskeleton) that protect them from bites and stings.
Ruby Tuesday (4,858 square feet)
1201 North Military Highway, Broad Creek Shopping Center, Norfolk, VA
This location was built and opened in 2001.
This is the preferred perch for this male ruby-throated hummingbird. Sure, it perches other places, but not as much as this perch. As you can see, it can't stay long before it is time to launch another defense of his territory.
Esta es la percha preferida del colibrí garganta rubí macho que ha declarado mi patio como su territorio. Seguro que se posa en otras ramas de vez en cuando pero no con la frecuencia en que se posa aquí. No puede disfrutar su percha mucho porque pronto se arroja a la defensa de su territorio.
Ruby Tuesday #5064 (4,692 square feet)
5310 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA
This location opened in July 2005 and closed on March 3rd, 2018. It became a First Watch on February 8th, 2021.
The site originally housed My Sisters Restaurant, which opened on July 16th, 1953. It became The Broadmoor Fine Foods/Broadmoor Teletray Drive Inn/Broadmoor Restaurant on July 14th, 1954, Shoney's Big Boy on October 12th, 1958, which relocated here in spring 1976, Ground Round in winter 1982, which closed in April 1994, and Richmond Finance Company in the late 1990s.
This is Ruby Dixon. She is my Nan. This was taken during the hiatus between wedding ceremony and meal. You can see she is much happier after a box of cashews and an orange juice.
Prior to this she was 'kicking-off' due to a lack of food (sugar). "No, i am not having a nice time. I am uncomfortable. This is like no wedding I have ever been to."
She was on cheeky top form all day, even giving me a wink after a particularly sweet diss. The perfect diss-machine. As she said, no one can touch her because she's 80.
The cane is just for show. My sister busted her breaking into a little jog on the way to the toilet. She is not frail. She is powered by nicotine and belgian chocolates.
RUBY (Corundum) From Tanzania. Completed tabular cleavage
183 carats
All rubys are Corundum...But, not all Corundum are Rubys...Any other color of Corundum (other than red or pink) are called Sapphires
Corundum measures 9 on the Moh's Scale ...The only thing that can scratch it is a Diamond
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Jen's House, Waterloo Ontario, Canada
Nikon D300 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/500s f/6.3 at 400.0mm iso200
2 more workshops coming this weekend.. lots of birds!
Another of my brother's cats, the gorgeous Ruby.
Ruby is blind in one eye after being hit by a car while in the care of his previous owner a few years ago .
Spectrum of ruby stimulated by a blue LED and taken through a toy spectroscope. The top image was exposed less to show the features on the blue side of the R-line (doublet) at 693nm/694nm. The bottom image was exposed more to show the features on the red side of the R-line.
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Heather makes the pimp hat look good.
In fixing the red eyes, I noticed that her right eye had a very cool looking star effect (like a star ruby) so I kept as much of it in as possible.
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Ruby-Crowned Kinglet - My brother, Joe and I went out Sunday morning to the Outdoor Discovery Center.
Trying something different to help get better photos of the hummingbirds when natural lighting is too low. I placed two dome worklight fixtures on a light stand and place LED bulbs in the fixtures. I think it helps and got lots of decent photos but need brighter LED bulbs.
Faceted beads of the gorgeous precious gemstone Ruby are wire wrapped in 14k gold fill wire to create these lovely earrings. One ruby on each earring is enveloped in a herringbone weave wrap with a second ruby left to dangle from the bottom of the earring. The earrings are then suspended from hand forged ear wires, also made with 14k gold fill wire. These are luscious earrings that you will come to treasure.
Length from Earwire: 2 1/4 in (5 1/2 cm)