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Insect Bonanza
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yourlibrarian
Never saw a bunch of butterflies clustered together like this before, much less so preoccupied that photos were possible. ( Read more... )
yourlibrarianNever saw a bunch of butterflies clustered together like this before, much less so preoccupied that photos were possible. ( Read more... )
Varied Critters
Jul. 27th, 2022 04:13 pmyourlibrarian
This is actually the 5th set of ducklings as we spotted another batch at a distance some weeks back, but couldn't get pictures. But these babies are definitely too small to be the same ones. ( Read more... )
nanila
We had a gorgeous and very obliging visitor in the house about a week ago. It took kindly to being gently shepherded back outside.
Ducklings and Dragonflies
Jul. 12th, 2020 12:33 pmyourlibrarian
We've been tracking the various duck families out on our lake. Some of the babies are getting noticeably bigger.
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Dragonflies
Sep. 4th, 2019 09:08 pmnanila
I was more than a little chuffed to be able to capture this shot of dragonflies in mid-air. Taken from a canal barge in Ohio, USA, in late July.
Tau Emerald dragonfly
Jan. 17th, 2016 05:15 pmlark_ascendsProud of these. Two pictures of a yellow and black Tau Emerald dragonfly perching on a plant, the first from the back, the second side on.
( Below the cut as they're both pretty big )
( Below the cut as they're both pretty big )
theora
This is a hoverfly, I think. The coreopsis was very busy with a variety of small bees, wasps, and bee-like creatures. I'd hoped to catch a green sweat bee (I've seen them here before), but no luck today.
( Lots of interesting bug stuff in my garden today )
spiralsheepI capped a male Southern Hawker dragonfly, Aeshna cyanea, who was doing a surprisingly good job of blending into the dying and drying late summer vegetation (when he wasn't pretending to be made of liquorice allsorts like the Kandyman. /Doctor Who). I also capped him crapping, heh, but haven't posted that image. ;-)
( Three more images. )
( Three more images. )
spiralsheepOne close-up photo of a banded demoiselle damselfly taken in Worcester next to the River Severn during June, at my journal and at flickr (links because I don't know how com members feel about images of insects):
http://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/395282.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiralsheep/7550670680/in/photostream
http://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/395282.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiralsheep/7550670680/in/photostream
Some more odonates :-)
Sep. 9th, 2011 01:39 pmholyschistAnd then I will stop spamming the comm! I am just enjoying having all these cooperative odonates right out my back door.
The spreadwings were still around today, but there were also some darners and a bunch of Striped Meadowhawks (Sympetrum pallipes), handily enough one of the meadowhawk species that can sometimes be confidently identified without capturing them.
( 2 photos below cut )
Although they are hard to identify, meadowhawks are one of my favorite groups of odonates--they are so bright and beautiful! These were pretty fierce, too--despite being less than half the size of the darner (and hence possibly a potential meal for the darner), a few of them would chase the darner around, harassing it.
More photos (and a bad shot of that frustrating darner) at my journal.
The spreadwings were still around today, but there were also some darners and a bunch of Striped Meadowhawks (Sympetrum pallipes), handily enough one of the meadowhawk species that can sometimes be confidently identified without capturing them.
( 2 photos below cut )
Although they are hard to identify, meadowhawks are one of my favorite groups of odonates--they are so bright and beautiful! These were pretty fierce, too--despite being less than half the size of the darner (and hence possibly a potential meal for the darner), a few of them would chase the darner around, harassing it.
More photos (and a bad shot of that frustrating darner) at my journal.
