Macrophotography of insects, spiders puts new perspective on tiny creatures.

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Grant
Darwin NT

The glasses are real. They were made using a laser.

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I'd like to meet his optometrist.

The glasses are real. They were made using a laser.

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~Sue~

Want some honey?

6,000 bees removed from inside wall of Omaha couple's home.

About 6,000 bees were recently removed from inside the walls of an Omaha couple's 100-year-old home.

Thomas and Marylu Gouttierre told the Omaha World-Herald they have been planting bee-friendly flowers outside their midtown home, but they never expected the bees to move in.

The bees likely infiltrated through a hole in the mortar of its brick exterior. The Gouttierres discovered them after noticing many bees flying outside their kitchen window and found about 30 in a second-floor bedroom.

“If you put your ears to the wall you could hear the buzzing,” said Thomas Gouttierre, who is a retired dean at the University of Nebraska at Omaha who used to lead the Center for Afghanistan Studies there....

They were ripped off though by the $600 charge to remove them by the bee club as the bees would be worth more than that and are removed for free here (unless that included the repairs to the wall also).

Cheers.

A tip for those that live in areas with Green Ants. Green Ants live in trees, and when all the trees get flattened, they get very, very upset.
Little buggers are all over the place since the Cyclone went through and biting first and asking questions later. And the Sugar ants are just as bad (although not nearly as numerous).

Ant bites are the worst! My first exposure to fire ants was shortly after I bought my house in central Texas. The gas people had dug up a portion of my front yard, so I went out with the hose trying to flatten the dirt they dug up. I was standing there in my flip-flops, casually watering the mud when, all of a sudden I felt a burning feeling on my left foot, from the ankle down. I looked down and my food was covered with fire ants. They had managed to cover my foot without my feeling anything until the one in charge announced, "Start biting!" (LOL!) Fortunately I had the hose and used the running water to flush them off of my foot. Then next day my foot was about double its normal size.

I have noticed that everyone calls their resident ants something different. The fire ants that covered my foot that day were tiny, dark gray ants. But when you ask, most people will describe fire ants as a larger, red ant. I called them something quite different that day!!

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One of the world's largest moths found in U.S. for the first time, officials say.



Cheers.

Wow!

That's a beauty!!

Keep the pesticides well away from that one...


Enjoy!
Martin

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Once thought 'Extinct' wood-feeding cockroach rediscovered on Lord Howe Island and scientists may breed more of them up.

Cheers.

This gives new meaning to the "B" in BMW.

Uncommon sight on boot of BMW.

No one was reportedly stung during the incident, but the whereabouts of the offenders are yet to bee found.

Cheers.

This gives new meaning to the "B" in BMW.

Uncommon sight on boot of BMW.

No one was reportedly stung during the incident, but the whereabouts of the offenders are yet to bee found.

Cheers.

Here's what you are seeing... The Queen Bee had ditched her old hive and at one point stopped on back of BMW to rest most likely when it was stationary. The rest of the worker bee swarm just followed her scent trail on her free trip across the city in search of a new place to make another colony/hive.

Bumblebees Playing With Wooden Balls

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~Sue~

We'll add crabs to the list.
It's crab time at Christmas Island again.

This year's Christmas Island red crab migration is expected to see 65 million of the critters trek from tropical rainforests to the sandy coast, according to Parks Australia.
The island's native species manager Derek Ball said this year's migration could be the biggest in years.

Red crabs during a previous migration, captured using multi exposure photography.(Supplied: Chris Bray/ Swell Lodge)

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Grant
Darwin NT

1 of the insect world's greatest recyclers and how it's coping in a changing world.

Mother dung beetles are digging deeper nests to escape climate change.

Amazing little things.

Cheers.

I think I'm going to ask admin peeps to lock this thread.

Post all future B, I, and S stuff in the Critter Thread. (I don't know if this will work: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85586)

Okay? Okay.

Oh, admin peeps, please lock this thread. :-)

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~Sue~