Pest
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A House Fly on its back. This photo won Third Prize in Digital Camera Magazine (UK) Photographer of the Year – Macro category Something to hang in the dining room wall! Nikon D80 with 105mm/2.8 MicroNikkor (first-gen AF, non-D version), Metz 40MZ2 flash and multiple photocopy papers for background, diffuser and reflectors.
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Elmeri, photographed by me.
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Red lily beetles making the most of spring in a garden in Buckinghamshire, England
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This is a Northern long-eared bat, they are tiny but like all bats voracious consumers of invertebrate life! Good thing with their appetites they aren’t the size of elephants! LOL
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These ants have bitten me more than once and landed me in casualty more than once as well, i am one of those with allergies to them. / I caught this one dragging a huge blow flow across our decking, there strength matches their bite…the bite burns like blazes and the area swells to the extent that if it bit your toe, you dont know what your foot looks like anymore…and they hurt like nothing else. / they have killed people. Jumping jack, bull ants and jumping ants are members of the Myrmecia genus – a primitive group of ants found only in Australia and New Calendonia. There are 89 species within this group. Professor Simon Brown from the Australian Ant Venom Allergy Study (AAVAS) says the three main species of ants that cause anaphylactic reactions in Australia are: Jack jumper, hopper ant, jumping jack – M. pilosula species complex (pictured left) – There are at least five different species located in Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, ACT, NSW (from the Snowy Mountains up to Armidale in northern NSW) and Western Australia. This group is responsible for about 90 per cent of anaphylaxis in Australia, particularly in Tasmania. Researchers from the AAVAS have developed a highly effective desensitisation treatment for people allergic to the M. pilosula species found in Tasmania. Common bull ant – there are at least four to five different species including M. forficata (found in Tasmania, Victoria, NSW), M. gratiosa (Perth WA) and M. pyriformis (found in Victoria, South Australia and NSW). Jumping ant – M. nigrocincta – can be found in SE Queensland and northern NSW. There are also at least two other species of jumper ants known to cause anaphylaxis in Western Australia, including M. ludlowi. / Other types of ants that can cause an anaphylactic reaction include greenhead ants – Rhytidoponera metallica – and the imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, both found in Queensland. taken from the internet Featured in Rural around the globe group March 09. / Featured in Happy Haven March 09
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The gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, is one of North America’s most devastating forest pests. The species originally evolved in Europe and Asia and has existed there for thousands of years. In either 1868 or 1869, the gypsy moth was accidentally introduced near Boston, MA by E. Leopold Trouvelot. About 10 years after this introduction, the first outbreaks began in Trouvelot’s neighborhood and in 1890 the State and Federal Government began their attempts to eradicate the gypsy moth. These attempts ultimately failed and since that time, the range of gypsy moth has continued to spread. Every year, isolated populations are discovered beyond the contiguous range of the gypsy moth but these populations are eradicated or they disappear without intervention. It is inevitable that gypsy moth will continue to expand its range in the future.
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Budapest in Fog /
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Believe it or not, these are all the the same species of Ladybird. They are the notoriously invasive Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia Axyridis, the most invasive ladybird on earth. It is also known as the Multicoloured Asian Ladybird and the Halloween Ladybird. It has a very variable appearance, which can make it difficult to tell apart from our native ladybirds. The harlequin ladybird was introduced to North America in 1988, where it is now the most widespread ladybird species on the continent. It has already invaded much of northwestern Europe, and arrived in Britain in the summer of 2004. I photographed all these variants on my runner bean plants, in South London, where fortunately for the ladybirds, but not for me, there is a large supply of black aphids. Technical Details: Camera: Nikon D200 / Lens: Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 / ISO: 800 / Flash: Speedlight SB-800 / Exposure: 1/250 sec at f/32 Post Processing: Photoshop CS3 © 2008 John Hooton Photography
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A little baby red squirrel /
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Banded (Northern) Brown Tree Snake. I love the “gecko” type eyes on these snakes, but they are not for loving pets. these can get very aggressive with several strikes to a victim if they feel threatened. They are a venomous snake, however their venom fangs are set in the back of the mouth, so it takes a rather large one to inject venom into a human. This species was introduced to Guam in WWII, and since had multiplied into huge numbers, seriously threatening the bird fauna there. This is one of the only reptile species that became an introduced pest anywhere in the world. Canon 50D, 85mm. Sydney Wildlife World, Darling Harbour. Available Large! :)
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A little common brown garden snail on a Euphorbia bract, taken in my garden in Buckinghanshire, England.
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I was travelling along Rte. 28, near Green Bank, West Virginia, when I spotted this mother and her baby. They stood in the field long enough for me to snap off a few shots. If you look at the photo at 100%, you will notice that Mom is covered with flies. We are not the only ones bothered by those pests, they unmerciifully attack the deer. This shot was taken hand held out of the window of my truck. / camera Olympus E-3 / lens Zuiko 50-200mm f/2.8 / shutter priority / shutter speed 1/250 sec / aperature f/3.5 / ISO 320 / focal length 200mm / hand held shot
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A macro photograph of a ladybug taken in the artist’s garden.
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Glowing and beautiful in the warm sunlight, these flowers belong to an insideous green creeping plague. Don’t turn your back, you’ll feel their spines lodge…
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Another closeup of the Greengrocer Cicada. / I hope this doesn’t ruin anyone’s lunch!
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A macro shot of a grasshopper perched on a pumpkin plant leaf
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This flower has to be one of the most unloved and nuisance flowers of all time. As a single bloom it is very ordinary, and as the name signifies, it multiplies by the thousands, but how pretty does it look growing wild along this road. I have slightly enhanced the colour as it was very overcast and late in the day when I photographed it. I am not one who is given to enhancements but felt this one needed it- thanks for visiting
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I just found this funny…that someone would be so annoying that Ghandi would freak out… :)
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