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Mar 23, 2019 13:01:19   #
Thank you.
Aren't those shoebox type containers handy? I make terreriums and aquariums, use for storage (a couple dozen with camera goodies), and 101 other uses. Starting seeds, lid keeps moist.
The gold flecks in the eyes and skin are beautiful. These grow to a point that by virtue of regular feeding they will outpace the outside ones.
Still hard to say for sure if F&T or S. Frontal mouth shot would help.
Later, have a rare date. I share a birthday with my favorite cousin (one of twenty six) and my year for being treated, I think. A quiet dinner and then she will beat me at a few games of Scrabble. So, up and out. A bright sunny spring day, don't want to waste it.
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Mar 23, 2019 12:44:44   #
You must have turned over a new leaf. I find a lot of specimens that way.
Some millipedes have a very nasty defence system. CYANIDE. Those ones are usually more brightly colored than most. Yellow legs and orange on body in many cases. Does it smell like almonds? Not a funny question. Smell can help ID a lot of arthropods.
If one of that type, it will coil and emit a bit of black liquid that contains the defencive (and offensive) chemical.
The ability to smell cyanide is only in about 40% of humans, so you may not smell it. The millipedes that have this will kill other arthropods. A natural killing jar.
Bill
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Mar 22, 2019 15:18:29   #
newtoyou wrote:
This looks very much like a Bess Bug grub. Yes, they are scarabs. It may not be, but good chance. Wood and woods dwellers.
Bill


I get tired of spell check. Even turned off it tries to second guess me.
Bess bugs are not scarabs. The larva, tho, are scarabs form. See, it did it again. Scarabaeiform.
Bill
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Mar 22, 2019 13:33:33   #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a beetle larva that I found on my recent hunt. I suspect it to be a June Bug but that is only a guess on my part. If you anyone knows what it is please tell me.

When I brought this specimen home I placed it in near boiling water for 5-minutes to kill the bacteria in its gut to preserve it. The last time I found one it turned black because I didn't prepare it properly.

I wanted to display it in its natural environment which is buried in the earth so I took a clod of dirt and dampened it and staged the grub on it. Below is a picture of the setup used.

This image was taken with a Nikon D810 and a Laowa 60mm f2.8 2X Super Macro set at about 1.75X, f5.6, 1/20 sec., manual mode with mirror up and viewfinder closed (otherwise fugitive light come in from the back of the camera). Lighting is constant with diffused IKEA JANSJÖ LED desk work lamps.
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Very nice.
The boiling water blanch does the trick. Sets the fat, kills bacteria and firms the specimen. If blackening persists, an alcohol injection and flush helps. Do you have needles and syringe?
Some specimens to mount, so later, all.
Bill
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Mar 22, 2019 13:27:21   #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Lots of nice, dedicate details are visible in this one. Well done.
June bug larvae tend to be in the turf, along with the similar but smaller Japanese beetle larvae. Other Scarabeid larvae would be in rotting wood. Bess bug larvae might also be in wood, but I am not sure if their larvae are Scarabeiform.


This looks very much like a Bess Bug grub. Yes, they are scarabs. It may not be, but good chance. Wood and woods dwellers.
Bill
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Mar 22, 2019 13:14:27   #
tk wrote:
Oh, now we have a challenge! Anybody?


I vote for calling the gentleman 'Sweetpee'.
And a FYI. Birds, like snakes, void urine in the white portion and liquid in their feces. Water is retained as much as possible, but due to the liquid diet they may need to void more.
Bill
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Mar 22, 2019 02:16:51   #
Bill_de wrote:
So after breakfast I took a drive to Bombay Hook. I was home in time for lunch, and covered in sawdust by dinner. I love retirement.


Rich state in birdlife. Do you catch the horseshoe crab breeding in June?
What, may I ask, will be left when you finish making the sawdust?
I, too, am a retired sawdust production engineer. Photographer manque.
Bill
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Mar 21, 2019 23:57:53   #
I was out to one of my favorite nature spots Wednesday. Sunny, warm, nice.
I was at Wye Mills, in Maryland. There is a large lake to run a grist mill from colonial days, I believe, still in operation. Fishing good for a lot of spring spawners here.
Maryland has become the new home for FRANKENFISH. The Snakehead. Look it up if interested. Wye River now has snakeheads.
I saw four caught. About twelve inches. In three years they will be thirty inches or so. Fresh water barracuda.
Now to macro. I have mentioned the dainty beauty in some weeds. These two are about 3/16- 5-16 inches wide. The hardest part is standing after the shots.
I think this is a permanently reversed 28mm on an 18-55 kit canon lens.
The last shot, an orangish blob, download and look close. Fibers, but of what?
Bill


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Mar 21, 2019 21:42:38   #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
Interesting, Bill. You are probably familiar with the Hepatica genus of wildflowers, named for their liver-shaped leaves. There is some Monarda didyma here near my house, but we are way out of its range, so I am assuming that some gardener introduced them to the neighborhood at some point. We also have some fistulosa X didyma hybrids on the property.

Mike


Western Maryland is blessed with many wildflowers. In Hepatica I have only seen lobed, americana, I believe the species.
Bloodroot, Trillium, Arbutus,Wintergreen, Pipsissua, Snake Plantain and terrestrial orchids, and on and on and, .
Oh, sorry, yes, I have seen Hepatica.😀
Bill
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Mar 21, 2019 20:47:35   #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Bill may be right. I was wondering earlier that if its eggs, then maybe she would settle in curled around them later. But there should be more eggs, so that makes less sense.
I do like mysteries. While they last.


Thank you. Having read Rex Stout, Hammett,Gardner,Sherlock and others, I settled For Mother Nature. I do still like Nero Wolfe, tho.
Bill
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Mar 21, 2019 20:35:12   #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
Here is a 1:1 shot of a seed head from Wild bergamot - Monarda fistulosa - a perennial forb from the Lamiaceae (mint) family that is native to most of North America east of the Rockies. The seed head measures about 5/8 of an inch. 30 or so frames were taken using the Helicon FB tube, and they were combined using Zerene stacker. The width was cropped a little since there was a lot of negative space there. I am including some photos of the plant in various stages of bloom from last July.



Wild Bergmaot I on Flickr

The Monarda genus is endemic to North America, that is to say it is only found in North America, and there are no Old World or southern hemisphere species. There are about 15 or so Monarda species, and four of those are native here in Michigan. Two of those are extremely rare here, Bee balm - Monarda didyma - and White bergamot - Monarda clinopodia. Bee balm is only known to occur on the banks of the Clinton river in southeast Michigan, and White bergamot is only known to occur in Warren Woods in southwest Michigan. Bee balm is popular in gardens, and occasionally escapes. Wild bergamot is common, though I don't see the enormous sweeping stands of it that I remember from years ago. The fourth species that is native here is Horse mint, Monarda punctata. It is fairly common.

Here are the range maps for Monarda species at the Biota of North America project website:

http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Monarda



Wild bergamot II on Flickr

The genus name, Monarda, honors the 16th century Spanish physician and botanist, Nicolas Bautista Monardes. Fistulosa, the Latin species name, means "pipe-shaped" or "tube-shaped" referring to the florets. The common name, Bergamot, comes from the fact that when the leaves are crushed the aroma is reminiscent of the Bergamot orange, an Old World citrus species.

Wild bergamot is a larval host plant for the Hermit sphinx moth - Lintneria eremitus - as well as some species from the Coleophora genus of moths including Coleophora monardae, C. heinrichella, and C. monardella.

While butterflies and moths can use a wide range of plants for nectar, including alien plants - plants from distant eco-systems that did not co-evolve with local Lepidoptera species - the needs of the larvae are critical and specialized. Plants have developed a wide range of chemical defenses against predation, making most plant tissue toxic or at least unpalatable to one degree or another to most animals. Lepidoptera species (butterflies, moths, skippers), in turn have developed strategies for handling various toxins in plant tissue, resulting in a complex pattern of dependent relationships. The best known example of that is probably the dependency of the Monarch and Queen butterflies on Asclepias, or Milkweed plant species. Nesting songbirds are dependent upon Lepdioptera larvae for successful breeding, and song bird migration times and routes and breeding site selections are coordinated with the availability of Lepdioptera larvae.



Wild bergamot III on Flickr

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation lists Wild bergamot as having special value to Bumble bees and other native bees. I do see a lot of Bumble bees on the blossoms here. Long tongues are useful for extracting nectar from these tubular florets.



Wild bergamot IV on Flickr

This plant is a really popular nectar species for butterflies, and I have 182 native flowering species going here, so the butterflies have a lot of choices! Only Joe Pye weed is more popular mid-season. We see a lot of frittilaries on the Wild bergamot, and we do have a lot of Common blue violet which is a host species for fritillaries.

Plants Profile for Monarda fistulosa at the USDA website

Wild bergamot at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Wild bergamot at the University of Michigan Michigan Flora website

Mike
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This shows how it got the fistulosa in the name and you captured it clearly. A mushroom with the name Fistulina hepatica exhibits tubes and looks like liver. All in the Latin.
Here in Maryland we have a lot of Monarda didyma, not so much wild others. Didyma more tolerant of wet feet, more soggy conditions. Hummingbirds and Sphinx moths love it.
Bill
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Mar 21, 2019 20:03:29   #
As you well know, I follow your posts here. This is your best effort to date. There is no flaw in this photo. A 300 bowling game, an 18 golf score. You get the idea.
And you read not poisonous to humans but bite painful. Read that as poisonous. Severity is the key.
Now, if I may, a bit on centipedes. Subject to correction.
From what I have seen, and read,the females of a few take care of eggs and young until young disperse, (a few days). They create a chamber in which to do this. They then lay eggs and tend them till young disperse.
BUT they do not create an egg case, or ootheca, so do not carry eggs.
Nor do they have sexual encounter with a male EXCEPT with a sperm packet he leaves. She picks this up with special organs and may be seen with it prior to insertion.
So I am saying that this could be a female, but well may be a male with sperm packet. Whew.
Believe me, I do not make this stuff up. But this answers some why's posed about not seeing females with eggs and on the move, only in repose, her coiled around the eggs.
Good to see you, Gary.
Bill
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Mar 21, 2019 19:22:41   #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Giant Wood Orb Weaver Egg Sac
Are these in Georgia? Am not sure of range of your (this) spider.
The two egg sacs posted may be empty. Are they?
That is important in ID, Timing of the seasons.
Bill again
This spider is lucky. Looks like someone buys her dinner.
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Mar 21, 2019 19:11:42   #
Blair Shaw Jr wrote:
Sorry about your health condition and good luck with your sale sir. Getting old sucks.


We can all agree. I just have never had much to say for the only alternative, either, and no final choice. (Insert smiley here?).
Bill
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Mar 21, 2019 19:05:40   #
cheineck wrote:
I have sold very similar equipment in the past on the HOG with very happy and honest buyers. My COPD has reared its ugly head again and i just can't handle all the equipment any more. All is practically new, all bought from B&H and is in "new" condition. New cost of all was $6,685.00. The Mark IV is the finest camera I have ever owned! The Sigma 150-600 surprised me with its extreme sharpness! The Canon 38-300 was recently sent to Canon for upgraded firmware and is a wonderful walk-around lens, The Tamron 15-30 got mediocre reviews but I have no complaints whatsoever. All have minimal, and I mean very little use. All in original boxes and USA items, no grey market. I want to sell the entire package for $4,770.00 firm.

Canon 5D Mark IV with battery grip
Sigma 159-600 Contemporary (really sharp!) with dock
Tamron 15-30
Canon 38-300
Canon 270EX2 flash (small but great)
Compact Flash and SD 64 gig cards
Teleplus 1.4 telextender
UV filters except on the Tamron...it comes with a filter setup because of the lens design

Contact Carl (that's me) through PM or call 772-546-1375

I'll pay shipping in Continental US and like to have equipment and check cross in mail. I'm in Southern Florida if you're close by and would like to see it all in person!Would deposit check upon your approval of equipment. Will take a day or two to pack in original boxes.
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If I may say, you may get rid of equipment because of problems, but do not allow it to dictate you give up photography. Macro may be a way to keep your interest in photography. A studio setup requires less lifting, bending, etc. You may be confined to home, but DO NOT become confined. I, for one, will send you bugs and critters that are a glimpse into unknown world's. You do not sound on a tight budget. See macro section here on the Hog. You will find kindred spirits.Look at close ups. Flowers are so intricate that a dozen shots may not capture all. Get them in the yard.(weeds).
All that said, I feel going cold turkey on photography would cause withdrawal symptoms. You don't need that, too, what with health issues.
Bill
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