Daily Musings - page 18

Nice pic Celeste!

I like spiders. There used to be a guy at DG who posted on Photos a lot. His name was Rich Swanner. He took the most incredible bug shots you'll ever see. It's worth a search. Don't know how hard it is when someone is no longer a member.

This guy seemed to pick a flower that went well with his attire.

Ngam - what a wonderful pic.........really cool!

Ditto here too. Great camo for that wasp!

Well I would like to take credit for composing it, but truth be told I did not see the bee until I was downloading the pics. A happy accident is sometimes the best pic. :)

That is a nice shot ngam!


I have the standard one I take.

Victor - I had to sharpen this pic all I could - look away!

Al, you get the most sensational bee photos!

Tell me when I can look again Al!

Thanks venu - I get about one good one for every 10 I take.


Victor - You can look again - another one of my wife's zoo pics.

Thanks for the heads-up. Didn't know your wife had a zoo. What a guy you are!

your wife takes good shots too! Canis Lupis??

Nice fox pic, Al. That guy keeps crossing our path on our dirt road....beautiful coloring!

Zoo's at our house I think.


That is a wolf at the Oshkosh zoo.

That one crosses my path on the way to work! They can run really fast, too!

Al - I looked at the zoo pic again.....can see it is a wolf face, not a fox. The tail threw me. There's a big debate going on here where we live as to whether we are all seeing a wolf. He has come to our meadow twice, and he looks very different from a coyote. Some believe there are no wolves here........maybe.....we aren't sure, but others think it is a wolf. We have some big, beautiful red foxes....very healthy looking this year. We keep Molly on a leash during the dawn and dusk hours when she goes up in the meadow. There is so much wildlife here. Our group of turkey babies and the 2 moms were back yesterday. Our teenage deer, Knobby and Sissy, were also here at dusk yesterday.

Does he huff and puff??

Knobby and Sissy you say. There are Timber Wolves in the northern part of this state and some coyotes


I got a few new bugs pics - a damsel fly. I saw this guy going after some small bugs so they must eat them - yay!

Not positive about this one, sort of like a katydid or cricket?

Can there be a male damsel?? I don't think the second one is a cricket. Nice shots, Al.

Al - what we called katydids in Fla. when I was a child were a yellow color......I'm not sure we called those horrors the right thing, so I may not be correct here, but I have traumatic recall of having those things leap onto me whenever I tried to go outside from our front porch. Eeeeuuuu!
This looks silverish........not sure what it is.

I'll post it in bug ID.

Would you mind keeping him in Menasha? I'm not wanting to be imprisoned inside again by those leapin' nightmares that vault right onto you without notice. :(

Dang Louise - you're not in the address exchange!

Andy's a bad boy for not keeping up with this........
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Looks like my bug is a tree cricket, probably the jumping poisonous kind with fangs Donnie.

OMG, Al.......you are giving me nightmares tonight!! Gross!!! tree crickets, you say....... If they and their cousins, the infamous katydids, would just stay still and stop leaping onto unsuspecting victims, that would be just fine. I admire most of the insects - from a distance - but I don't like surprises like they can deliver. LOL

They make great hors d'oeuvre.

Barf!!!