Wildlife pictures
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Aaah, again these creatures with 6 leggsokenest:
Great picture, hornets are really impressive animals. We had a nest on the house once (and I managed to get stung while taking pictures at the nest), but this year I haven't seen many of them.
Another mammal, it's an old picture from 2005 when visiting the Pasterze glacier below the Grossglockner in the Austrian Alps. The Marmots there are wild, but used to tourists so no problem getting a nice picture.
Excellent. And as everyone knows, marmots are the most closely related mammal to elephants (of mammals not extinct, that is).
You're brave! Or do you have a good telephoto? Lovely pic though. I've been collecting up apples and have had a few close encounters with these guys lately. Ntohing like turning over an apple to find it full of wasps or hornets
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Errrr...I think you may be confusing marmots (which are rodents) with rock Hyraxes
You are absolutely right, and I am absolutely an idiot :twak:
There are reasons why I shouldn't be allowed to talk about anything with less than 6 legs. Blame Turnstone, say I.
You're brave! Or do you have a good telephoto? Lovely pic though. I've been collecting up apples and have had a few close encounters with these guys lately. Ntohing like turning over an apple to find it full of wasps or hornets
No bravery involved. They are placid beasties. I was stood next to the tree today, with them zooming past in all directions. Never felt threatened.
Found a hornet's next yesterday. Took this today.
Looks like Vespa Crabro Hornet. I saw one of these last month when I visited Sibbertoft near Market Harborough. Scared the bejeezus out of me. We were being plagued with wasps and then this jumbo of a thing turned up!
lol
That's them. Only hornet in the UK. One flew to a moth trapping light last month. Makes you jump when this huge thing drones in out of the darkness and flies past your face.
So here you go, found some critters with more than 4 legs!
Hornet in the garden, eating fruit
Wasp spider in our greenhouse, with eggs. Taken several years ago, and have never seen one again
Love the hornet picture.
The wasp spider in that pic has an egg ball, which means she would have died shortly afterwards. Looks like the youngsters didn't make it if you haven't seen any since, although greenhouses are not their natural habitat.
Here are some little creatures the Hoverfly and the fly are from today and the spider from the other night on the carpet. The spider is uncropped and it was rather large.
Hover fly by alf.branch, on Flickr
Fly on leaf by alf.branch, on Flickr
House spider v2 by alf.branch, on Flickr
Hover fly by alf.branch, on Flickr
Fly on leaf by alf.branch, on Flickr
House spider v2 by alf.branch, on Flickr
Well I can't compete with those Brancho. Nonetheless I shall share with you this dragonfly I saw today:
Wonder what that fly is eating.
Wonder what that fly is eating.
Yes I wonder that too, but I suspect Harvestman doesn't have a clue,
Ah, but google has a clue:
http://www.mndragonfly.org/defined.html
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