Who is this lovely little pink and yellow Pretty One?
North East Florida, April 1, 5/8 inch long
Pretty one identified:
Wow that’s beautiful! Happy spring, huh?? It’s a Rosy Maple Moth… I’ve always wanted to see one in real life…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryocampa_rubicunda
Who are you, pretty one? ⓒBearspawprint2015 4.1.2015
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Who is this little fellow with the silver legs and green eyes?
He was on the back porch under a dim florescent light, no moonlight, and the temperature was a warm, 72F. There had been a light rain during the day. The photo, without flash, washed out his colors so much that I enhanced them to get closer to his own natural gorgeousness. Not visible is that his legs appeared entirely silver and his wings are outlined in the same shimmering silver. The antennae and eyes are green. The head abdomen and thorax are the same turquoise, with blue shadows, as the wings.
Exquisite Little Winged One.
Little Silvery Turquoise One ⓒBearspawprint2015Lepidoptera
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WHINING LITTLE BITERS
ARE AWAKE
NOISE IS EVERYWHERE
TINNITUS HAS WINGS
AND SIX LEGS
AND THE LITTLE BLOOD SUCKERS
MILLION LITTLE NEEDLE BITES
WELTS ARE ALL OVER AND THEY
ITCH AND STING
WITH IRRITATING
ANTI-COAGULANTS
AND OTHER BOTHERSOME
ITCHY STUFF TO MAKE
US SABOTAGE OUR OWN SKIN
SCRATCHING SCRATCHING
TOADS AND FROGS HAD
TO GO BACK TO
FROZEN SLEEP
ONE LAYER OF THE
CACOPHANY IN MY EARS
IS EXACTLY MATCHED
BY THE IRKSOME
TUNE THE SKEETS SING
PARRALEL TO SILENCE
ALL OVER THE WORLD
NYEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Disease carrying little vector hoards …
Just wait. When everybody else wakes up …
Then the chorus will really blare
Bear … 02.22.2015
ⓒBearspawprint 2015
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Xylocopa virginica xylokopos = ξῦλοκὀπος = Wood Cutter
Bear …03.21.2014… 5/8 BEE ⓒ Bearspawprint 2014
” ….. There are some 500 species of carpenter bee in 31 subgenera…..”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_bee
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| The dragonfly Calopteryx syriaca. CREDIT: alslutsky, Shutterstock |
Dragonflies lack humans’ big brains, but they still get the job done, according to new research that suggests that these insects have brain cells capable of feats previously seen only in primates.
Specifically, the dragonflies can screen out useless visual information to focus on a target, a process called selective attention. The new study, published Dec. 20 in the journal Current Biology, is the first to find brain cells devoted to selective attention in an invertebrate animal.
Selective attention is crucial for responding to one stimulus among the dozens of distractions that clamor for notice at any given time, said Steven Wiederman of the University of Adelaide in Australia.
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