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Not a bug of course, but a Dronefly (Eristalis tenax) showing the camera not just its butt but also its characteristically banana -shaped rear tibias, or should that be tibiae? HBBBT
Summer is on the way out when katydids start to sing so enjoy the warm August weather while it lasts! By the way, only male fork-tailed bush katydids sing, by rubbing their wings together, in order to attract females like this one for mating. Females hear the males singing through their ears that are located on the front tibia. Zoom in and you can see the tympanum there that looks like a little oblong hole in the brown leg section. This female fork-tailed bush katydid uses that pretty pink ovipositor to slip her eggs between the layers of a leaf along its edge where they will spend the winter before hatching out the following spring. Baby bush katydids feed on a variety of plant leaves as they grow, molt and gradually mature through the summer season. This female is not fully grown yet as her wings are still very small.
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.
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
Hi dear friends,
Just wanted to let you know I will be on and off for the next few months or more. Last Saturday, I was in a freak accident when my husband and I were walking our sweet 11 year old golden retriever, Wylie. A very large dog got loose and came running full speed at our dog. It all happened so fast, but somehow my left leg got in the way and was rammed at full speed by the loose dog. My left lower leg and knee (my tibia) was fractured in multiple places. Thankfully, my husband was able to get ahold of the dog and pull him off Wylie and he is doing fine. The next day, a surgeon put the pieces back together with stainless steel plates and screws. I am not able to put any weight on it for around 6 weeks so it will be a bit of a long recovery. I am motivated, however, to get back out in God's beautiful creation and experience again all the wonder of nature! I will post some shots from my archives in the meantime and try and catch up on all your wonderful and breathtaking shots! I so appreciate each and everyone of you... Thank you all for inspiring me with your beautiful and amazing work and for your kind and supportive friendships. I am truly blessed...
Cathy
Leaf katydids, also known as true katydids, are insects that are renowned for their exceptional leaf mimicry. They belong to the family Tettigoniidae, commonly known as katydids or bush crickets. These insects are particularly adept at camouflaging themselves to resemble leaves, even those that are chewed, torn, or partially decayed, making them extremely difficult to spot in their natural habitats.
Notably, katydid ears (tympana) are located on the first pair of legs, just below the knee. This photo clearly shows one of these ears (the pink, oval structure on the upper part of the tibia).
Canon EOS 90D + Tamron SP AF 90 mm f/2.8 Di Macro 1:1 (272E) + Godox TT520II + diffuser. Single shot. Processed in Darktable.
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.
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
Golden Northern Bumble Bee.
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.
Lake Erie Metropark, Monroe County, Michigan.
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!
As always, thanks for stopping by and looking, I appreciate your comments and visits.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,...
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.
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.
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 small flowers are very popular with the honey bees. They are also popular with the bumbles especially the little Bombus pratorum workers. Also a few male pratorums on them today - some very yellow. Lovely little creatures.
The bees only work cotoneaster for nectar not for pollen.
This honey bee picture shows the corbicula pretty well.
It is on the outer aspect of the tibia - surface is concave and shiny making a shallow cavity. There is a fringe of hairs creating the "basket". The single central hair is clearly seen in this picture. It acts as an anchor to hold the ball of pollen firmly in place.
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.
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
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/
. . . 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!
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.
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.
• 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
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...
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.
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.
Most folk think that bees do not have knees, its a common myth.
Bees do have knees. They definitely have joints in their legs, and they have femurs and tibia – the bones which the knee joins in humans. They don't have kneecaps, however – so while the joints in bees' legs aren't quite 'knees' as we know them, they are still knees.
Qué tibia
la aurora.
Qué fresca
la rosa.
Luz de la
mirada,
Pura luz
del alba.
Más allá
está el viento,
la ciudad.
Silencio.
Vicente Aleixandre
Praying Mantis. ( Mantodea ) Predators with raptorial forelegs which have one or two rows of spines along the tibia. Large eyes set in a very mobile head. Mantids will mainly eat insects of a size they can overpower.
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.
I think
I put it on the Facebook "Insects/Invertebrates of Ireland" group and the experts there were happy that it was indeed a male Bombus lucorum.
The colours look right but I was worried that the tibia seems like it had a proper corbicula on it ...but apparently they can look like that on males
You know I have to feature the Ambush Insect when I come over here...I love them so!
Any of about 200 species of bugs (order Heteroptera) that are most abundant in the tropical Americas and Asia and that hide on flowers or plants from which they ambush their prey. When prey approaches closely enough, the ambush bug grasps it with its front legs. The upper section (tibia) of each foreleg has teethlike structures that mesh into similar structures on the lower, greatly thickened leg section (femur). Holding its victim in these pincers, the ambush bug inserts its short beak and sucks out the body fluids. Even though the ambush bug is small (usually less than 12 millimetres, or 0.5 inch), its prey may be as large as a bumblebee, wasp, or butterfly.