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I found this pretty little bug just sitting on the leaf, and it stayed for a bit so I could get some shots :)
Hope everyone has a great week! :)
Oh yeah, it's that stink bug again.... we were chatting for a while a few days ago... and no matter how small the little rascal was, it felt like it was constantly looking down on me.... well, not as a person then but as a human being... as a representative of the idiocy of evolution.. and/or the creator's bizarre humor... and once again it felt like we need to do more to care for our dear planet, our mother Gaia... and it feels like we're on the right track.. NOT!!
Think about how strangely unexpected encounters can make thoughts fly.... Show less
Spring arrived October last year and with it a delightful find for me...a collection of silver Pentatomidae eggs at the tip of a blue chalk stick succulent (complete with trailing spider silk!).
Each egg just 2 mm in width.
The Pentatomids are known as stink bugs or shield bugs. These insects are frequently found in large numbers on crops and weeds.
Possibly eggs of the spined predatory shield bug Cermatulus nasalis, the brown soldier bug.
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Using a small panel light, I focus stacked 200 shots. He was fairly cooperative; I only had to touchup one leg and one antenna as he was moving them around.
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"Love Stinks" by J. Giles Band
You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else
You just can't win
And so it goes
'Til the day you die
This thing they call love
It's gonna make you cry
Sammy wonders if it's his own pits that stink or that scruffy mallard duck Horace that's offending his olfactory
The lantana berries that replace the flowers are about 5 mm in diameter. Pretty sure these are Chlorochroa ligata nymphs, congregating in a couple of locations of the plant.
With 25 mm tube, Raynox DCR-150 snap-on macro lens
Lyramorpha rosea, in its nymphal form, on a new Native Tamarind (Diploglottis australis) compound leaf.
The Mt Pleasant track in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Focus stack using Zyrene
Stink bugs get their name from the unpleasant odor they produce when they are threatened. Predators prefer meals that smell good.
"How many roaches does It take to screw In a light bulb? Can't Tell. Soon as the light goes on, they scatter." Slim - It's a Bug's Life,"
A lateral shot of Musgraveia sulciventris which is a true bug in family Tessaratomidae with piercing and sucking mouthparts. These bugs live in forests, orchards and gardens in coastal areas here in Australia. Feeding on plants belonging to the citrus family Rutaceae.
Commonly called bronze orange bugs, they are known for their ability to produce unpleasant chemicals when disturbed. They can squirt a foul smelling fluid that will burn human skin and cause great discomfort if it gets in the eyes.
This was one of a large grouping covering a single plant. It is a 4th or 5th instar nymph.
25 mm length
Link to a dorsal view: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/51665556911/in/datepo...
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Its common name has several possible sources: the Latin word for red, ruber; Shakespearean character Robin Goodfellow, the mischievous hobgoblin in A Midsummer Night's Dream; an early duke of Normandy named Robert who is rumored to have commissioned the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum; or abbot and herbalist Robert of Molesme. Freshly picked leaves have an odor resembling burning tires when crushed, and if they are rubbed on the body the smell is said to repel mosquitoes.
I don't get to worried about Stinker running off, all he ever wants to do while he's outside is eat grass.
I looked out my kitchen window just before dinner and noticed this Barred Owl sitting in a tree. I quickly grabbed my camera and stepped out my back door, hoping that it would look my way. Eventually it turned around to look at me and gave me "Stink Eyes" for interrupting the search for their dinner.
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Two by two and side by side
Love's gonna find you, yes, it is
You just can't hide
You'll hear it call
Your heart will fall
Then love will fly
It's gone, that's all
I don't care what any Casanova thinks
All I can say is
Love stinks
Yeah, yeah
- The J. Geils Band
NB: not captive. Seen on garden plant pot gravel.
I believe this bug with lovely markings and texture is genus Platycoris, perhaps bipunctatus. Commonly known as the toad stink bug.
This is a true bug, with piercing and sucking mouthparts.
Body length 10 mm.
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Every great story of mine at least starts with that... So ... And There I was with the wife and we were walking back from the dock where I normally take images of the Manatee. My have had seen them from a distance many of time but today was going to be different. I looked to the shoreline and there he was. It was a young Manatee that was pretty small, he was face down in the grass just enjoying himself some dinner. H was no more then 3 or 4 feet from me, I started to snap away.. After a few minutes he turned around and wanted to come in at a better angel. That is when I was able to capture this. He never came up for air and eventually swam away. But this was just amazing to see in the Wild, The image stinks, but the experience will last a lifetime.