Sunlight webs

February 13th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Forest

Sunlight webs

So I was in muir woods in california and went very early in the morning. The spider webs in the woods would shine if the sunlight hit them correctly. It was beautiful

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Black eyed susans in thorns

February 4th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Forest

Black eyed susans in thorns

Not sure what this cool bug is but I really want to hunt one down.

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True love in the monkey forest

February 1st, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Forest

True love in the monkey forest

True love is to pick bugs out of your lover’s butt.

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Coolant gnat

January 29th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Forest

Coolant gnat

Built a couple months late for the Battle Bugs Desert Destruction challenge. The Coolant Gnat brings coolant canisters from the supply depot to the front. Can carry 4 bug coolant canisters under the wings, and 2 troop replenishment canisters under the body. During a heavy battle, these programmable drones can …

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Late again

January 6th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Forest

Late again

I found these blue butterflies in a spring in a clearcut in the Shesher Creek Drainage.

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Staring contest – up close -explored-

December 29th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Forest

Staring contest - up close -explored-

A close up crop of the previous posting to show the detail of the original file at max size allowed by Flickr. I loved the eye color and the bokeh in both shots and found this one more pleasing with the detail. -Camera: Nikon D40 -ISO: 800 -Shutter: 0.003sec -Aperture: …

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Spot-winged glider

December 22nd, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Forest

Spot-winged glider

I was fortunate to see this Spot-wing Glider dragonfly, Pantala hymenaea, land in this cottonwood tree. The railing of the bridge I was standing on gave me a solid brace for the camera, too.

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Hail the queen

December 7th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Forest

Hail the queen

Queen butterfly feeds this morning on the Wildflower Trail.

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Sepasang lantern bug

December 3rd, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Forest

Sepasang lantern bug

A pair of Lantern bug, feeding on the sap from a tree in Royal Belum forest. Its long needle shaped mouth piece is used to pierced tree bark to reached the sap. Once they started, its easy to photographed them …. because they wont move. The only problem is, they …

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Mud dauber nest

October 7th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Forest

Mud dauber nest

This enormous mud dauber nest must be the equivalent of a high-rise apartment complex. I have a hard time imagining it was the work of one wasp, but they are solitary, not social. The exit holes show this nest is no longer in use by the original mud dauber offspring, …

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