Posts for: newtoyou
Sep 29, 2018 14:43:31 #
You do come up with some odd ones.
Bit more on wasp. I find reference to it "in our area". Mostly 'old' world and Australia. They used to be included in Icnneumanidae, but that neck took them out. Now separate family. Closer now to ensign wasps in relationship. No wonder taxonomists get Gray hair. Adults feed on pollen and necrar. Larva in nest of a solatary bee. It lays an egg on the bee, and when it hatches it moves into a nest, eats larva and pollen stores and completes it's life cycle after third instar in the spring.
Sounds like more a mooch than a parasite.
Bit more on wasp. I find reference to it "in our area". Mostly 'old' world and Australia. They used to be included in Icnneumanidae, but that neck took them out. Now separate family. Closer now to ensign wasps in relationship. No wonder taxonomists get Gray hair. Adults feed on pollen and necrar. Larva in nest of a solatary bee. It lays an egg on the bee, and when it hatches it moves into a nest, eats larva and pollen stores and completes it's life cycle after third instar in the spring.
Sounds like more a mooch than a parasite.
Sep 27, 2018 22:43:12 #
napabob wrote:
how many movies have stolen the plot since that was made:
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
I know, still works.
Goes back to even Kurosawa. The Magnificent Seven theme still rates high( Noon?) in my mind.The mellowdrama in the last gunfight scene is pushed beyond toungue in cheek in Grand Duel, but the theme is hauntingly beautiful.
Back to the movie.
Bill
Sep 27, 2018 21:03:51 #
napabob wrote:
certainly lives up to it's name, various focus point views
P. S. Now to one of my other likes, Spaghetti Westerns. Lee Can Cleef in El Duelo Grande. Theme music used in Kill Bill.
Bill too
Sep 27, 2018 20:57:57 #
napabob wrote:
thanks for that, it's a challenge for sure, and winter will give ya plenty of practice, getting light in front of it for focusing is a task, with the twin flash it comes in from both sides which helps, have never tried using it with one flash, Tom has great success doing it that way, shot 30 shots to get these, hardest part was wrangling it to the island without squishing it, it hopped into the water first thing, had to blow on it to get it back to dry ground
I have a twin arm device and remote flash units, direct wired units, and about a dozen various flash units. Also other light systems. The last ten years have been devoted to buying. I have not used some of the options open to me.
In a studio setup, I use constant light, not flash. Inanimate objects. I see the need for flash( for strobe effect) to stop my shake when shooting active creatures. I try to get techniques correct.
Then I do what I feel we all do, every shot, I hope.
Enjoy the evening, all.
Bill
Sep 27, 2018 20:27:54 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Went to the backyard this afternoon and I could only find these two insects. Hoping for better fortunes tomorrow.
Only two? Wait till December. Maybe a cold weather test, find insects in winter.
Nature takes no time off and life goes on. Many surprises can be under a rotten log.
And no ticks, bitting flies,chiggers, et. al. to spoil the day.
G' nite.
Bill
Sep 27, 2018 20:17:33 #
napabob wrote:
certainly lives up to it's name, various focus point views
Amazing. Did I mention amazing?
I believe my learning curve and my new lens, (MPE65), are at odds. It seems that I need to look into a soft box flash unit. First tries show promise, tho.
A winter project.
Always something to learn.
Bill
Sep 26, 2018 21:27:34 #
olddutch wrote:
AAnd Twiggy said I am flat busted...
You may have just dated yourself.
Bill
Sep 26, 2018 19:35:05 #
Ava'sPapa wrote:
I'm afraid I don't have the cajones. Does anybody out there?
Or the disrespect
Sep 26, 2018 19:33:07 #
napabob wrote:
as a recovering idiot/smoker I will have to find something less damaging......... 
and thanks!
and thanks!That you quit is the main good point.
Have you noticed the births are breech births? A point I forgot to mention is that those being born are all female, soon to be gravid, but still no male female union. That may not be till spring. Ants will move these to roots for the winter. The reason you see aphids on your roses after a few warm spring days. The ants bring them up to feed and get some sun. These are usually sexual reproductives to be or close. There will be intercourse and the hatchlings are the ones seen now, many sexless generations later.
Sorry, but not a simple subject.
Bill
Sep 26, 2018 08:22:03 #
napabob wrote:
fat and sassy........ 
Looks like Erhard is "part Zen, part Dale Carnegie", N Y Times. Est is LatÃn for 'is'. Had two wives, so guess marital harmony is not on his seminar list. Father of self help.
Bill
Sep 26, 2018 07:38:39 #
This looks to be Ctenosaura pectinata. Not the common one, Iguana iguana.
Young iguanas eat mostly insects, etc. The adults are mostly herbavores, but will eat birds, bugs, carrion and other meat if found. Fun pet unless you get a nasty one, they bite and lash tails in defense.
Young iguanas eat mostly insects, etc. The adults are mostly herbavores, but will eat birds, bugs, carrion and other meat if found. Fun pet unless you get a nasty one, they bite and lash tails in defense.
Sep 25, 2018 21:35:27 #
tinusbum wrote:
and more
Wish I still had my two E. O. Wilson ant books. This ant seems to live in small colonies in hollow twigs. They farm aphids and will attack a caterpillar enmass and shred it to take back to nest. The sting is " potent". Native to Mexico, most likely introduced into gulf states. Wasps and ants are in the same order. These ants exhibit both ant and wasp characters. Not an unusual occurance.
Bill
Sep 25, 2018 20:17:24 #
napabob wrote:
fat and sassy........
Thanks for the grin. Abed, abed, my kingdom to be abed. Goodnight.
Bill
P.S. Pitty the sexless life of an aphid. At least no nagging.
Sep 25, 2018 20:09:18 #
saxman71 wrote:
As Spock would say, "Fascinating".
Spock and Michael Valentine Smith are my favorite non earthlings.
Bill
Oops, got first two names reversed. Been forty plus years since I read that story. See ' grok' in the dictionary.
Bill again.
Sep 25, 2018 20:04:21 #
napabob wrote:
I figured, just couldn't help myself with the obscure remark, and proud to wear your generous maven label, will keep an eye out for the arrival of my t-shirt.......... 
What size?