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POW - Week 70: Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	OK, I've finally gotten a few spare moments to go out and hunt some bugs. The weather isn't that conducive to bug hunting at the moment (it's a bit on the cool side and quite windy), but I figured I could hunt up some bugs in the greenhouse. On my way out, though, I noticed this fellow in the foyer (vestibule? No direct parallel in Western homes--it's a tiny "room" where you take off your shoes before entering the house). It looks like a roach of sorts. Anyway, he was on his way to that big roach motel in the sky, so I snapped a few shots of him in his death throes and then put him out of his misery: [url=http://www.liminality.org/asylum/pow/70/death_throes(big).jpg][img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/pow/70/death_throes.jpg[/img][/url] (Click for larger pic on this one and all following) I then made my way out to the greenhouse. It's warm in there and smells of vegetation and manure--pretty much the ideal combination for bugs. They fly in through the front door (which is usually open) or through the vents (which are open in good weather) and then their tiny brains forget how they got in. They spend the remainder of their pathetic little lives bouncing off the plastic in an attempt to get at the blue sky that is on the other side. Kind of sad, but the sound of dozens of bugs bouncing off the plastic is pretty cool, too. There were a bunch of these guys in there. At first I thought they were bees, but they don't look like bees close up. I've seen them before, but I don't know exactly what they are: [url=http://www.liminality.org/asylum/pow/70/beelike(big).jpg][img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/pow/70/beelike.jpg[/img][/url] And here's another bug. Again, I have no idea what this is, but it looked pretty cool. He was by himself and, judging by the fact he seemed to have pretty much resigned himself to a (brief) life behind plastic, he's probably been here for a while: [url=http://www.liminality.org/asylum/pow/70/redtail(big).jpg][img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/pow/70/redtail.jpg[/img][/url] There are usually a lot of spiders who set up shop in the greenhouse during the summer, but I didn't see any yet. I did take a few spider pics last year. In fact, I have an entire gallery at my site dedicated to [url=http://www.liminality.org/imagery/arthropods/]arthropods[/url]. Yeah, I know, that's a wacky name for a gallery, but I wanted something that would include insects, butterflies, caterpillars, etc. Of the photos currently in that gallery, this one is my favorite (it is also the one that freaks me out the most): [url=http://www.liminality.org/imagery/arthropods/3/]Zombie bugs[/url] What can I say, I like taking pictures of bugs... if only this topic came up a month later... :D [Edit: All photos taken with my trust dusty Canon A80.] [Edit2: Forgot to mention... if the zombie bugs photo isn't freaky enough for you at that size, click on it for a larger version. :)] [small](Edited by [internallink=2031]Suho1004[/internallink] on 04-15-2005 07:38)[/small] [small](Edited by [internallink=2031]Suho1004[/internallink] on 04-15-2005 07:42)[/small] Loading...
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