Bugs - What's in your yard

[Richard Cabesa]

Humungus has got giant spiders in his shed. Can't top that for size but I've got bugs too. What's in your garden?

http://richard-cabesa.smugmug.com/photos/2842758-M.jpg


Happy Hunting

David

[wxwax]

Ain't gotta yard. Gonna hafta borrow someone else's.

[gus]

Ok....the gauntlet is on the ground. I am about to go & get a photo of the "Uzi boys" If i dont post in the next few hours then you know i have been flanked & taken out.

0z national anthem kicks in at this moment

You mongrel richard....i have been avoiding this.

[Richard Cabesa]

You mongrel richard....i have been avoiding this.
:rofl Watch out for the brown snakes while you're lookin fer bugs :lol3

David

[gus]

This could get real nasty lads...stay alert for one very hot extraction. I want 4 at that rise at Sou Sou West with minimi's...another 2 with RPG's on right flank & keep a voice clear for air support, we are going to need 'em.

Man what am i doing this for...who's the winner in this type of garbage ?

A salute is all that is required lads. Godspeed.

[gus]

So whats so scarey about these little fellas you may ask ? Well have you ever hung out of your bathroom window up 4 storys balancing a camera in one hand & holding on for grim life with the other ? Sweating as you creep the lens up to 3 inches knowing that at any second they are just gonna start into you like an uzi....no crap they will each sting you about 2 or 3 times & I have been chased by them for 100 yards. At least with a snake you only have one end to watch.

And do they hurt ? They are our hardest flying hitter over here.I give you the 'Paper Wasp" aka Honeycomb Wasp. Notice the dood top right on point ? He kept straightening out his legs & raising his body to show i was too close.




http://humongous.smugmug.com/photos/2844190-L.jpg

[Sam]

So whats so scarey about these little fellas you may ask ? Well have you ever hung out of your bathroom window up 4 storys balancing a camera in one hand & holding on for grim life with the other ? Sweating as you creep the lens up to 3 inches knowing that at any second they are just gonna start into you like an uzi....no crap they will each sting you about 2 or 3 times & I have been chased by them for 100 yards. At least with a snake you only have one end to watch.

And do they hurt ? They are our hardest flying hitter over here.I give you the 'Paper Wasp" aka Honeycomb Wasp. Notice the dood top right on point ? He kept straightening out his legs & raising his body to show i was too close.




http://humongous.smugmug.com/photos/2844190-L.jpg
I have no idea what the contest was, but you win! If they were out side by bathroom window, I'd be nailing the window shut, and buying a case of raid.

[TJAmy]

Hello, nice picture. I hope these are not the orange flowers from the other day!

[fish]

Humungus has got giant spiders in his shed. Can't top that for size but I've got bugs too. What's in your garden?

David

Here's one.

http://fish.smugmug.com/photos/2735746-M.jpg

[Richard Cabesa]

Hello, nice picture. I hope these are not the orange flowers from the other day!
Nope only on the Hibiscus, only thing in the yard they seem to bother

David

[Richard Cabesa]

So whats so scarey about these little fellas you may ask ? Well have you ever hung out of your bathroom window up 4 storys balancing a camera in one hand & holding on for grim life with the other ? Sweating as you creep the lens up to 3 inches knowing that at any second they are just gonna start into you like an uzi....no crap they will each sting you about 2 or 3 times & I have been chased by them for 100 yards. At least with a snake you only have one end to watch.

And do they hurt ? They are our hardest flying hitter over here.I give you the 'Paper Wasp" aka Honeycomb Wasp. Notice the dood top right on point ? He kept straightening out his legs & raising his body to show i was too close.




http://humongous.smugmug.com/photos/2844190-L.jpgI'm skeeered

[gus]

Here's one.


Fish whats up there with the focus...i would expect your experience & camera to get the lady bird clearer. No putting it on you but is the bug too small for the camera to focus on & thus uses the leaf ?

[gus]

I'd be nailing the window shut, and buying a case of raid.
I wont kill anything... wont even step on an ant. I am forever getting insects out of puddles on the way to work... Im a bit weird like that.

[fish]

Fish whats up there with the focus...i would expect your experience & camera to get the lady bird clearer. No putting it on you but is the bug too small for the camera to focus on & thus uses the leaf ?
operator error. the ladybug was moving and I had the camera set on "one shot" AF, rather than AI Servo, so it nailed the leaf and not the bug. No second chance, cuz she flew off right after I snapped it. I'll take what I can get :)

[gus]

cool...just that your shots are always in focus.

[Richard Cabesa]

Another pest

http://richard-cabesa.smugmug.com/photos/2856192-M.jpg


David

[SavannahMan]

Almost walked into this one the other day.....it's a big as it looks...

http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/2439023-M.jpg

[fish]

The roses are starting to bloom, and like clockwork, the little suckers are out in force.

http://fish.smugmug.com/photos/3104513-L.jpg

[wxwax]

Almost walked into this one the other day.....it's a big as it looks...

http://savannahman.smugmug.com/photos/2439023-M.jpg

OK, that's it. No trips to Oz, and no parties in SavannahMan's back yard. :yikes

[wxwax]

The roses are starting to bloom, and like clockwork, the little suckers are out in force.


That's a nice shot, fish. Do those suckers kill the rose?

[fish]

That's a nice shot, fish. Do those suckers kill the rose? Aphids won't kill the plant, but if enough of them suck on a bud, it will open funky or not at all. I like to go out and squish 'em with my hands. See the very skinny white corpse in the middle? That's a dead one. Some of them have wings, but most don't. They just live to suck....suck to live. Reminds me of my sister.

[gus]

Aphids won't kill the plant, but if enough of them suck on a bud, it will open funky or not at all. I like to go out and squish 'em with my hands. See the very skinny white corpse in the middle? That's a dead one. Some of them have wings, but most don't. They just live to suck....suck to live. Reminds me of my sister.Thats why if you find a lady beatle...put it on the rose...they just looove aphids. Its their favorite

[rutt]

My all time favorite bug shot:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3110422-M.jpg

My most exotic bug (St John, USVI, xmas 2003):

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3110403-M.jpg

From a couple of summers ago:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3110404-M.jpg

[rutt]

Combining two of my favorite subjexts:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/3141808-L.jpg

[Richard Cabesa]

I'll throw another on the stack

http://richard-cabesa.smugmug.com/photos/2851884-M.jpg
David

[Xcellenc]

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[fish]

I'll throw another on the stack


David
I think that's a molusk, not a bug.

[Richard Cabesa]

I think that's a molusk, not a bug.
OK Cliff, haven't you got some mail you need to deliver? :smooch