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This small brown Jumping Spider (Genus Phidippus) was not daunted by my lens, and proceeded to engage in a stare-down. Pretty comical from something that's smaller than a pencil eraser.
This red tailed hawk gave me a glare as he preened during a snowfall. If only it hadn’t been so dark; he let me get pretty close.
Every time I got close to these guys, they promptly turned their backs toward me and their noses up, no matter if I snuck up from the right or tiptoed from the left. Do I stink? Did they perhaps see some of my photos on Flickr? I gotta say, though - these lazy beach bums stink just as bad! I found that quite surprising, what with the ocean being right there. They could rinse themselves off a hundred times a day if they wanted to.
I think this is the best photo that I've ever taken of a Brown Marmorated Stink Bug. I was lucky to find this guy practically posing on a small flower at Lake Waterford Park in Maryland this afternoon 10/19/23.
A pretty little green-and-pink stink bug (Antheminia sp., I think A. remota) on blanket flower (Gaillardia) in Montana.
A juvenile stink bug on a leaf. Captured with Homemade Diffuser DIY by myself :D I really love the lightling, it's soft enough!
Walking along the Thames Embankment one day I came across this truncated lamp post. Odd. But look closely and you'll see a vent where the light should be. This is the work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette and Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, the engineers who sorted The Great Stink of 1858. This pipe vents the explosive gases from the sewer that runs just below. Usually these pipes are much taller.
Two days in a row! This guy was actually in my backyard for this photoshoot; and judging by his expression he did not appreciate the early morning photo session!
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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I had to google around a bit, but I think this is a pinacate beetle. The butt-in-the-air position is supposedly a defensive position. If further provoked it lets loose with a stink cloud to offend any would-be attackers. It's also known as a stink beetle.
This week's Saturday Timewatch features one from a big American road trip in 2015. This came to mind from a discussion a couple of weeks about Bliss, Idaho which is another Stinker Station location!