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Golden Northern Bumblebee.
Male drones are 3/8 to 5/8 cinehs; workers 1/2 to 3/4 inches and pring queen 3/4 to 7/8 inches. They are robust and hairy with a face and head mostly black in color. Black bands between wings. The female is yellow on most of the thorax and abdominal segments. Wings are smoky and they have pollen baskets on their hind tibia.
They inhabit clearings in forests, roadsides and open areas.
They range from Quebec to New Brunswick south to Georgia, west to California and north to British Columbia.
Crosswinds Marsh, Wayne County, Michigan.
This shrub is also called Sweet box or Christmas box.
At Rowallane Gardens.
Gorgeous heavy scent at the moment is amazing - a winter wonder!
white pollen load visible on outside of the right tibia and also a lot of pollen on the pollen brushes on the inside of the left basitarsus.
For 122 pictures in 2022 Number 114: White in nature
The White Stripes - Look Me Over Closely
Oedemera flavipes (Fabricius, 1792) = Necydalis flavipes Fabricius, 1792, l’oedemère à tibias jaunes.
En la imagen podemos ver a un macho inmaduro de Platycnemis latipes.
Lo encontré en la ribera del Cabriel muy cerca del puente de Cristinas.
El brillo de sus alas y el color de sus ojos nos delatan que hace poco que ha emergido. Sus tibias anchas, se les conoce por patiplumas, nos lleva a su identificación. Se puede observar la genitalia secundaria en la cara ventral del segundo segmento abdominal lo que demuestra que es un macho.
Fotograma completo adaptado a formato panorámico.
In the image we can see an immature male of Platycnemis latipes.
I found it on the banks of the Cabriel very close to the Cristinas bridge.
The shine of its wings and the color of its eyes reveal that it has recently emerged. Their wide tibias, known as patiplumas, lead us to their identification. The secondary genitalia can be observed on the ventral surface of the second abdominal segment, which shows that it is a male.
Full frame adapted to panoramic format.
Near the Cristinas bridge. Pajaroncillo (Cuenca) Spain
Cerca del puente de Cristinas. Pajaroncillo (Cuenca) España
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is way beyond all my expectations, so thank you all!
Wikipedia
Senja (nordsamisk: Sážža) er Norges nest største øy etter Hinnøya (Svalbard ikke medregnet) og ligger i Troms fylke. Øya har et areal på 1 586,3 km² og i underkant av 8 000 innbyggere, og omfatter kommunene Berg, Torsken, Tranøy og deler av Lenvik. Befolkningstyngdepunktet er langs Gisundet på innsiden av øya. Her ligger også det største tettstedet, Silsand. Det største fiskeværet er Gryllefjord i Torsken kommune, som sommerstid har fergeforbindelse med Andøya i Vesterålen.
Senja (Northern Sami: Sážžá) is the second largest island in Norway (not counting Svalbard). Senja is mentioned in David Armine Howarth's World War II novel We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance. It has a namesake island in the MMORPG Tibia.
Norwegian musician Moddi comes from the island and his music has been said to have been influenced by the beauty of the island
Senja is located along the Troms county coastline with Finnsnes as the closest town. Senja is connected to the mainland by the Gisund Bridge. The municipalities located on Senja are Lenvik (part of which is on the mainland), Berg, Torsken, and Tranøy. Senja had 7782 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.
The north and western coasts of Senja are facing the open sea. Here, steep and rugged mountains rise straight from the sea, with some fishing villages (like Gryllefjord, Husøy) wherever there is some lowland. The eastern and southern parts of the island are milder, with rounder mountains, forests, rivers and agriculture land.
Male bees do not actively collect pollen, only the queen and worker bumblebees do. They transfer the pollen they collect to the sacs or baskets on their hind legs to make it easier to transport back to the hive. Bumblebee pollen sacs or baskets are known as corbicula. Bees have a tibia (lower leg) just like humans.
Bumblebee pollen sacs or baskets are known as corbicula.
The hairs in the pollen basket hold it in place.
When the pollen sac is full, it can hold more than one million grains of pollen
This is one of the group of hoverflies known as 'footballers' because the striped thorax looks like a football shirt. The most common is the sun fly (Helophilus pendulus), but this one occurs a lot near water. Unlike pendulus the hind tibia are mostly dark and the white dusting on the face reaches the ocellar triangle.
Photographed as part of a biodiversity survey on a former MOD petrol depot now owned by Chester Zoo and proposed as an extension to the zoo's nature reserve.
It would be incredibly inefficient for a bee to have to travel back to its nest after visiting each flower. So, to be more efficient female bees have a special apparatus for holding and transporting pollen. The pollen collecting apparatus in apid bees, which include honey bees and bumblebees, is commonly called a ‘pollen basket’ or corbicula. This region is located on the tibia of the hind legs and consists of hairs surrounding a concave region. After the bee visits a flower, she begins grooming herself and brushes pollen gathered on her body down toward her hind legs and packs the pollen into her pollen basket. A little nectar mixed with the pollen keeps it all together, and the hairs in the pollen basket hold it in place.
Helophilus Pendulus, size, - 12mm
This hoverfly has a black stripe down its face and the basal half of the hind tibia is brownish yellow, April - October in many open habitats, also called the Sun Fly as it likes to bask, favours damp habitats.
The larvae inhabit rotting matter such as liquid manure,
Hover flies are the most easily recognizable of the flies due to their often wasp-like or bee-like appearance and their ability to hover.
These superb aerial acrobats can move in all directions, including backwards, and can hold a fixed position in the air even in gusty conditions.
The adults are typically slender-bodied with black and yellow or white stripes; some are stout and hairt.
The eyes are large and in males meet on top of the head.
The wings have a characteristic false vein running down the middle ( a simple thickening of the wing membrane ) and a false margin at the edge ( the joining together of the outer wing veins ).
Despite the warning, wasp-like markings, and the bee-like appearance of many species, hover flies are harmless nectar feeders.
The larvae of a few species can be pests of cultivated bulbs.
Order - Diptera,
Family - Syphidae,
Species in Family - 6,000,
Size - 0.4 - 2.8 cm, ( Body length ),
Feeding - Larvae; predators and scavengers, Adults; liquid-feeders, herbivors,
Impact - Beneficial as predators of aphids,...
An Andrena tick for me, if I've got the ID right. She's looking a bit worn, but you can just about make out the short fringe and the broad, flat tibia in this shot...
Westhay
The banded lapwing (Vanellus tricolor) is a small to medium-sized shorebird, found in small parties or large flocks on bare ground in open grasslands, agricultural land and open savannah. Lapwings belong to the family Charadriidae (plovers) and sub-family Vanellinae. It is native to Australia and in the past considered as a game bird for hunting. Population estimate is 25 000 - 1 000 000. Other names include banded, black-breasted, brown flock and plain plover. It is a medium-sized shorebird with short dark purplish legs and a dull red tibia. 15298
View from the back of Many Glacier Hotel.
This was the first stop of our trip to the Canadian Rockies. The light was not that great, in part because the atmosphere was full of remnant smoke, from the fires in Colorado. Nonetheless there was a moment when the light was beautiful. This is a four horizontal images panorama.
Esta fue nuestra primera parada, de nuestro viaje a las Rocosas Canadienses. La luz no era la mejor, por que la atmósfera estaba cargada de humo, de unos fuegos forestales en el estado de Colorado. A pesar de esto, hubo un momento que la luz esta tibia y bella. Esta es un panorama de cuatro imágenes horizontales.
My now-annual trip to Cherhill Down in Wiltshire to see these rare & protected bush crickets produced lots of singing males, heard with a combination of bat-detector & the 'naked ear' but just this one sighting of a rather high-mileage male (both antennae broken off, wings tattered, left foreleg missing from tibia downwards). However, he was worth the journey!
Cherhill Down, Wiltshire.
In the summer, nights are shorter and daybreak is earlier than the rest of the year. With sunrise set for 5:37am, one needs to be in place more than the usual one hour prior to sunrise, for the first light. As can be seen here, with the first image as I arrived, taken at 4:24am. It was very difficult to get to this location, especially following an intense day of driving long distances, the day before. The drive from Jasper to the lake is approximately one hour. The drive is in the middle of the night, on a road full of animals crossing signs. Five minutes after this shot, the magic was gone. As the fog cloud cover wrapped the glacier in the distance, the warm light from the boathouse faded into the blue. To me, part of the charm is in the golden light, against the cool backdrop of the lake and mountains. This continues to be one of the most heartwarming corners, I've been to. A piece of my heart will always be here.
Have a blessed Sunday!
En el verano, las noches son cortas y los amaneceres mas temprano que el resto del año. Con el amanecer a las 5:37am, se necesita estar en el lugar al menos una hora antes, para poder captar la magia de esa primera luz. Como se puede apreciar, esta imagen la tome a las 4:24am, despues de una hora de manejar desde Jasper. Es difícil manejar en la oscuridad, con muchos letreros de animales cruzando el camino. Todo despues de un día muy intenso, manejando largas distancias.
Cinco minutos despues de esta fotografía, la magia se habia ido. Al crecer la neblina, que en principio solo era una franja en el Glaciar, acabo por cubrirlo todo. La luz dorada y tibia de la casita se convirtio en azul y fria. Este es uno de mis rincones favorito en Las Rocosas. Siempre ocupara un lugar muy especial en mi corazón.
Tengan un Feliz Domingo!
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The Footballer Hoverfly, Helophilus pendulus, (female).
Habitat; Around muddy puddles, wet ditches and ponds, but also in most sunny situations along roadsides, field margins, etc.
Found; April - November, but very common from June to August with a peak in July.
UK Status; A common Hoverfly, widespread throughout Britain and is the commonest of the Helophilus species.
This Hoverfly is sometimes called 'The Footballer' due to its stripy thorax. Another name is 'The Sunfly' due to its preference for bright sunny days. There are in fact several species with similar stripes which are difficult to tell apart. In this species the black on the hind tibia is restricted to the distal third and the mid tibia is all yellow.
Larvae have been found in farmyard drains, very wet manure, and very wet sawdust.
France; Manche (50) 11/9/08. Bulbous-tipped bill, flattish crown. Tertial 'step', broad pale tips to tertials, wings sticking out above tail. Chequered, contrasting appearance (cf L. argentatus), all-black bill and dark-centred juvenile/1W mantle and scapular feathers. Long legs with large amount of tibia visible
Black-legged Golden Orb-web spider (Nephila fenestrata)
She is not dangerous for humans, only for insects. But with her size of nearly 10 cm (leg span) she looks very impressive.
Cape Town, South Africa
The female, with a body length of 20-30mm, is almost entirely black and the first, second and fourth pairs of legs have a brush of bristles on the tibia. The third pair of legs is the shortest with no brush. The abdomen is elongated (long oval) and is cream to yellow with the caudal section (towards the tail end) black or blue with speckles infusing forward into the yellow. There is a huge variation of abdominal patterns with the amount of black or blue on the abdomen. The key feature to identify this species is the black legs and window pattern ventrally. Thanks to www.projectnoah.org/spottings/27393215
A pair of sun flies (male on the left) at Burton Mere Wetlands. Species ID is based on less than 50% of the hind tibia being black.
This is one of several hoverflies where gender can't be determined from the spacing of the eyes - often males' eyes are closer together or even merge. Instead, the shape of the abdomen has to be used - the male as an obvious genital capsule projecting from a flat tip whilst the female's abdomen comes to a smooth point.
The awe-inspiring and legendary Atrax robustus, the Sydney funnel-web spider.
The body position seen here in this female is not aggression but defense. And when operating at such heightened levels, she has her defenses fully primed and ready to go...that is indeed venom seeping from those incredible fangs.
Body length 45 mm
Link to non-defensive pose:
www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/49800593842/in/album-...
UPDATE January 2025: Exciting development in the world of arachnology, and on my doorstep as it were. Six years ago almost to the day, I came across my first Sydney funnel web. This is the time of year that males will be wandering in search of the females and I'd learned of several very large specimens having been found within a 25km radius of where I live.
Scientific examination (gene sequences, in combination with fine morphological detail) has shown that Atrax in this area are indeed a new species and have been named Atrax christenseni. The new species is named in honour of Kane Christensen for his dedication to documenting aspects of funnel web behaviour and collecting specimens for study. So, I have to amend my records of sightings. (Males of this new species can be separated from the Sydney funnel web and the Southern Sydney funnel web by the extra-long palpal tibia and embolus).
Sadly, our eight-legged icon is in decline. Loss of habitat and illegal trafficking being cited as probable main causes. For this reason, collection sites were not included in research papers.
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This photo gives a great view of the corbicula or pollen basket. The bee uses honey or nectar to pack the pollen onto this specialized area of the tibia. This packed pollen is called bee pollen or bee bread.
Sometimes photos get stuck on the harddrive due to lack of a proper ID. This one is one of those, but when I finally made an effort to figure out what it was - I got immediate help and learned it was a species named for its larvae - say hello to the western grape rootworm (Bromius obscurus).
There are at least three distinct colour forms of this one with elytra and tibia in brown plus this one which is the typical one in all black.
This is a two-exposure fous stack for a little added depth of field.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54457008149/
Having seen this species only once before in 2022, in 2025 I set out to deliberately find it again. This involved looking closely at all the dark bumble bees I could find. I managed to see it twice, in different locations, but both times on red clover. The females are quite similar to the common red-tailed bumble bee (B. lapidarius) with the following differences: red hairs on the hind tibia, more compact build, more elongated and slender face and a more shaggy appearance. These are quite tricky traits to judge, when the bees are moving quickly, so a lot of photos are needed for a positive id. In the mountain regions of Europe there are additional similar species. HWW!
Shiny black beetle on Wood's Rose. Apparently of the genus Mordella. Condie, Saskatchewan, Canada. 26 June 2022
Genus Mordella
Numbers: 25 species in our area*(1);
Size: 3-8 mm
Identification
Antennae strongly sawtoothed to clubbed. Each hind tibia has tubercles, but not ridges, on its outer surface, near the tip. Usually black but some have a pattern of light colored hairs on their elytra.
Food
Larvae in dead wood.
It was a beautiful but fateful day on April 7, 2022.
I was finally recovering from my broken tibia, when my kneecap snapped in two. Ow! One step forward...
The engraving in this video is from The Graphic, August 18, 1875. It is by F. Morris, and is entitled 'The Mowers'.
WOUNDWORT
A clownish answer he gave, when I,
A man of letters, offered aid:
“I can ‘eal it better mesel’.”
The grass was flush with his gush of blood
And flecks of it dripped from docks
And plantains. A red runnel ran down
The scythe blade, which cleaved the air
Where he had dropped it. His leg
Was open to the shin, and within
I glimpsed a gleam of tibia, white
Before the blood engulfed it.
He shrugged me off, and dragged
Himself to the hedge, where woundworts
Spired their flowers – a signature
In clotted gore – ripped
The stinking leaves with a quaking hand,
Restrained his stertorous breath,
And crammed them into the gash.
The burnt rubber taint of the herb
Mingled with the rusty smell of blood
As the wound lips sandwiched its leaves.
Forty days, it should have taken,
Balsam-poulticed, for such a wound
To heal; he hobbled out each day
To work his field, the gash
Sealed with hog’s grease and herb,
And was whole within a week.
A clownish answer he gave, and I,
A man of letters, use it yet:
Clown’s Woundwort – All Heal to the wise.
Source material: Marcus Woodward (Ed.), Gerard’s Herbal: John Gerard’s Historie of Plants, (1597), Middlesex, 1998, pp. 238-240. Adapted from Gerard’s account of how he “discovered” the healing qualities of this herb. “Clownish” is not quite as insulting as it seems; a “clown” in the sixteenth century was a country labourer, not necessarily a fool. John Clare’s use of the word to describe himself in the nineteenth century was tinged with self-irony, but was in no way intended to suggest foolishness. The comparison of the smell of the crushed herb to “burnt rubber” is an anachronism in the context of Gerard’s writing, since rubber was not known in Europe until the mid eighteenth century, but on the basis of my own experience, I can think of no more apt comparison. Woundwort used to be eaten as a vegetable, which suggests perhaps that people did not find its smell so repellent as we do today. Could this be, perhaps, because we automatically associate its odour - which is perhaps quite inoffensive in itself - with the smell of burning tyres: a comparison which a person of Gerard’s time could not possibly have made? Poem by Giles Watson, 2009; reading recorded 13th June, 2010.
. . . SB Dunes National Lakeshore was established by Act of Congress October 21, 1970.
Doing well at home yet 8 days post-op knee replacement with a fractured tibia thrown in for good measure! I guess since I am weaned off the narcotics now (I hope) I can know what I am doing with editing pictures!
Have a great week FB, Flickr, and 500px friends!
Pelluco se ubica 4 kms al sur de la ciudad de Puerto Montt. Es un tradicional balneario veraniego muy vistado por sus playas y suave oleaje, si bien el mar es frio la poca pendiente de la orilla de playa permite que el agua de mar este unos grados mas tibia que lo usual para esta parte de Chile. Desde Pelluco se puede ver numerosas islas y la gran bahia del puerto que mira al gran Seno de Reloncavi hito geografico considerado como el inicio de la Patagonia Occidental.
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Pelluco is located 4 kms south of Puerto Montt city. It is a traditional summer resort well-known for its beaches and gentle waves, beside the cold sea the shore beach has small slope cause the sea water more warmer than the most in this part of Chile. From Pelluco it can see numerous islands and the harbor bay facing the great Seno de Reloncavi a geographic landmark set as the beginning of the Western Patagonia.
I was unaware there had been an ice storm overnight. A quarter inch of invisible black ice in the parking lot was my downfall, resulting in a broken wrist and a broken tibia at the knee. After a week in the hospital and a week in a rehab facility I’m finally up to checking in on Flickr.
123 pictures in 2023, topic 89 “Scientific Instrument”.
Helina depuncta. (Female).
Length; 6.75mm – 8.25mm.
Found; Males most commonly seen in May to June but females can often be seen until November.
UK Status; Common and widespread in England and Wales but probably under recorded due to difficulty to positively identify.
Habitat; It breeds on cow dung so most commonly encountered around cow pasture.
Grey/brown with fine stripes on the thorax and no patterning on the abdomen. It has red femora and tibia, with yellow-tinted wings and darkened cross-veins. Often found sitting on foliage in the Summer and early Autumn.
Similar to Helina impuncta but among other characteristics there are no elongated presutural acr bristles while H. impuncta has 1 to 3 pairs.
• Chinche del Mburucuyá
• Blue passionflower's stink bug
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hemiptera
Suborder:Heteroptera
Infraorder:Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily:Coreoidea
Family:Coreidae
Genus:Holhymenia
Salinas, Canelones, Uruguay
The beach in front of the Red Sea, Jordan. The water is cold but the external temperature can be up to 52 C, thermal sensation. What an experience!
Playa del Mar Rojo en Aqaba, Jordania. El agua es tibia, a veces fria pero la sensación térmica llega a los 52 grados centigrados, impresionante.
Praia de areia meio avermelhada, justificando assim o nome de Mar Vermelho. A agua é morna para fria mas a temperatura as 2 da tarde chega a 52 graus centígrados, pela sensação térmica experimentada.
Vista cenital del macho adulto de Sympetrum striolatum. Rara vez, los machos, se vuelven tan rojo intenso como en otras epecies. También las bandas amarillas del tórax y las líneas del mismo color en fémur y tibias nos ayudan a identificar,
En la Estación biológica de Torretes. Ibi (Alicante) España
Aerial view of the adult male of Sympetrum striolatum. Rarely, the males, become as intense red as in other epecies. Also the yellow bands of the thorax and the lines of the same color in the femur and tibias help us to identify,
In the biological station of Torretes. Ibi (Alicante) Spain
Not sure how this praying mantis lost the distal end (tibia, tarsus) of its front leg, but I imagine this mantis narrowly escaped a predator. Life goes on...
I've been concentrating on shots of the eristalis species this season mainly to try and get the differences in the species a bit clearer in my mind and , perhaps its just me , but I've not found it easy.
This one however E.tenax does have a couple of distinguishing features both of which I think I've managed to nail here for a change. These are the stripe of darker hairs running down the eye and the enlarged curved hind tibia.
It only needs someone to turn round and say that's not E.tenax to put me back to square one but I'm quietly confident I'm OK with this one.
Image will enlarge a little.
Extreme macro of the leg (2nd left) of a Rainbow Scarab (Phanaeus vindex, Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Dried collection specimen, Punta Gorda, Florida, 2018).
Focus stack, 52 images, assembled in Zerene Stacker (Dmap & Pmax). Sony A6500 + Metabones EF-E + Canon MP-E 2.8/65mm at 2.6x; ISO-100, f/4.5, 1/500s, 1 diffused flash. Image ca. 8 mm high.
Yet another hoverfly with a taste for yellow flowers, in this case fleabane in the Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB reserve.
This sun fly has an interesting hind leg - the swollen femur and curved tibia would look more at home on Eristalis tenax. The tibia is only around 30% black, which confirms the ID to species level.
We're not sure, she said
Or maybe that's what I read
Way over my head
"Definitely Condylostylus caudatus group
Clear, unmarked wings in both sexes. Most caudatus group spp. have a very long bristle near tip of mid tibia. Branch of M right-angled. Mid basitarsus usually with dense row of curved bristles. Males generally with dark femora; yellow tibiae, with hind tibiae darkened at the tips; some with a tail with conspicuous long hairs.
C. nigrofemoratus should have a dense row of bristles on the mid-basitarsus, the last two segments of the hind tarsi swollen, and with tail hairs that aren't particularly long. I checked the full-size image on iNat. It might be nigrofemoratus, but I'm not sure. I can't see any definite tail hairs from this angle (that area is blurred), but I'm not certain the hind tarsi has two swollen segments, though they look as though they could be - might need slightly more resolution. They can be tough to see."
… Alison Place, 15 March, 2023 - 5:02pm
Suborden Heteroptera / Infraorden Pentatomomorpha /Superfamilia Pentatomoidea
Familia Pentatomidae / Subfamilia Podopinae / Tribu Graphosomatini
Graphosoma lineatum italicum
Chinche rayada. Conocido como el insecto italiano rayado.
Se diferencia por tener las patas negras exceptuando la tercera tibia.
You see, part of the problem is that I'm running out of tattoo-able skin that allows me to still be employable in the regular world. Also, "Twinkle Toes" are funny since I'm a royal klutz. I even turned walking down a flight of stairs into a broken tibia and months of physical therapy. May still require surgery. My physical therapist will actually get a big chuckle at the tattoos.
As expected, hip joints started to show their weakness as the cabin is getting heavier. I'm currently cheating with a quick fix that may become permanent.
Shortened the thigh parts of the legs, and worked on detailing those: quite happy with the result so far even if using the 3x3 tile up front gives too smooth a result, some kind of technic part might be more adapted there.
Now I think I need to rework the relative proportion of the rest of the legs. Namely the ankle should be shorter while the tibia part could be lengthened.
Again thanks for the support on the previous WIP :)
An older photo of this species, better than those I have already published. Probably female.
A species quite similar to H. trivitatus, but with a black strip down the nose and generally darker and more colorful. Females also resemble those of H. hybridus, which have darker hind tibia (only a base is pale) and somehow different abdomen pattern.
The most common tiger hoverfly in my region, however, I am still waiting for a better catch.