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The Tasmanian viviparous seastar, Patiriella vivipara. Adults achieve a full size of 13mm across.
This tiny species is endemic to Tasmania, is known from a handful of locations and is considered threatened.
Rather than going through the usual planktonic larval stage that most seastars go through, this species hold the larvae in it's gonad until they are fully formed. These minute baby seastars emerge from the back of the parent. This reproduction method limits the spread of this species to suitable habitat elsewhere along the coast.
This is the tiniest Shieldbug I've ever come across.
I thought at first it was a speck of dirt but I've learnt over the years never to dismiss a speck of dirt because it might just have legs.
I've deliberately cropped it wide to hopefully show how tiny it is.
I think this is the nymph of a Green Shieldbug.
Click on large for a closer look !
Mygg wondering the beautiful light of the setting sun :)
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Still wearing the gorgeous little dress we won in Carla's lottery :3 She doesn't want to take it off :)))
a row of hand-made little wooden boats
I would not have the patient or the finger agility to tie these tiny knots
7 Days of Shooting – Week #13 (w/b 2 October) Art - “The world is but a canvas to our imagination” so let’s go and find everything and anything relevant to art! We can include art materials, street art (murals and graffiti), sculpture and of course drawings and or paintings.
This is the first doll on my restarted redressing list. I just happened to get some new Picco Neemo clothes when her turn came up, so that worked out well. :-)
Not having luck identifying this one. Closest suggestion I have is Dielis dorsata but that species has black legs, these are gold and black. Also does not come across to me as any Perdita. Definitely not Campsomeris plumipes.
Northern saw whet owl watches intently for it's next meal. Every year many of these diminutive owls undertake a treacherous migration south from their breeding grounds in the boreal forest to areas with less snow cover and more rodents. They must run a gauntlet of predators that await. Many are killed by vehicles and collisions with building windows, guy wires, windmills etc. For the newly fledged it's their first time away from the protection of their heavily forested homeland. Unfortunately for them bird banders have blocked their ancestral paths with mist nets. The helpless owls become hopelessly ensnared and are left dangling for hours under the threat of being killed by barred owls that are attracted to the incessant loud speaker calling the saw whet in to the trap. It's a dinner bell for predators. Next they are extracted from the net by volunteers and dropped into a filthy cloth bag and hung on a coatrack until the banders get around to handling them. They are then stuffed headfirst into an empty orange juice can, weighed and examined under bright lights by banders forcing their wings to spread. A metal band is then clamped around a leg with pliers. Then they are tossed unceremoniously out the window, shocked and disoriented. Many fall prey to barred and other larger raptors or simply languish in the bushes too afraid to move on. Every morning turkey vultures gather to clean up dead birds. For some reason this horrible practice is condoned by the Canadian Wildlife Service on land designated a Nation Wildlife Sanctuary. The blatant hypocrisy is dumbfounding. Only a insignificant number of banded birds are recovered, many likely die of stress from the rough treatment. As an avid wildlife photographer I hear constant compplaints from the birding community about "unethical" behavior such as getting too close, feeding, and playing bird calls, yet the bird banders are deified as saviors of bird populations. One woman told me there wouldn't be birds if it weren't for banders! There isn't a justifiable reason for this cruelty as Saw whet aren't a species of concern to wildlife managers. The Ontario Government has topped up the onslaught by permitting huge numbers of windmills to be erected directly in the path of migratory birds. This done under the guise of The Green Energy Banner. The banner has blood stains all over it. As for the bird banders, they are scared the general public will become aware of this abuse of wildlife and loose their jobs. The chief bird bander of Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory punched me in the head and grabbed at my equipment when he saw my camera set up to photograph saw whet owls. What's he trying to hide?
Tiny flowers
X-H1 w/Auto-Takumar 35mm/2.3 with front lens element reversed, and used a helicoid adapter.
This is by far the smallest mushroom I've ever seen!! No idea what it is, Elliot is the one who identifies the mushrooms. Crazy tiny!!!
I don't know what this bug is but I do know it is tiny, it was crawling on the stamen of a cleome bloom.
The Tropical Pewee is a small flycatcher of Central and South America. It is quite similar to the Eastern Wood Pewee of North America. Like most flycathcers its diet consist mainly of insects, many of which it catches while in flight. Tyrant Flycatchers are considered the largest family of birds. Despite this birdʻs small size it will defend its nest very aggressively against much larger birds. This seems to be a fairly common characteristic. The little bird pictured here, may not be the serene passerine that the photo suggests, but rather a tiny tyrant. #TropicalPewee
Today's tiny quilt. I have been inspired by the "daily painters" and thought I would try to make a "tiny" quilt daily. Here is my first one. It's 6" x 6" and made out of my hand dyed fabric. Visit my blog at: heatherbennett.wordpress.com
The Misfits came by last night after I got home from work. While Chip and Dale napped on the patio, the ever playful Tiny found a Coke bottle from somewhere and had the time of his life with it! It was a pretty comical scene.
Lasioglossum leucozonium (ID-cred: B. Jacobi)
Size: 5mm
A tiny bee on a malformed grass stamen.
When I found this little bee it was resting further down on this peculiarly shaped grass . I tried to cut the stem off at the base without disturbing the bee but failed – the bee woke up and quickly climbed to the top where it remained, relatively active, for some time before taking off.
At least I got this 36 frame sequence during which the bee remained relatively still.
Canon 5DmkII + Canon MP-E65 @ 3.0X, 1/4s, f/6.3, ISO200
Tiny, ground-nesting native bee (Homalictus sp?). I went to a dirt patch on my front lawn where a fair amount of Wahlenbergia has been growing wild. I know there are bees living there as I have occasionally seen them darting in and out of their little holes. I decided to make a protracted effort to photograph one. I saw this little cutie roaming around on the soil for a bit. After I took this shot, she found a spot she liked and started digging! Her first digging attempt ended in a retreat (not quite the right spot) so she tried an area a centimetre or so away and went down like a drill! I managed to get some footage of this which I have uploaded along with these photos. I am so excited to have seen this happening right before my eyes! (Blue Mountains, NSW).
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Worthwhile to View On Black with this one for detail.
For info on this series see set notes. Tiny Landscapes Set