Bugs - What's in your yard

Richard Cabesa · March 13, 2004

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?

Happy Hunting

David

wxwax · March 13, 2004

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

gus · March 13, 2004

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 · March 13, 2004

Humungus wrote:

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

Watch out for the brown snakes while you're lookin fer bugs

David

gus · March 13, 2004

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 · March 13, 2004

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.

Sam · March 13, 2004

Humungus wrote:

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.

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 · March 13, 2004

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

fish · March 13, 2004

Richard Cabesa wrote:

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.

Richard Cabesa · March 13, 2004

TJAmy wrote:

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 · March 13, 2004

Humungus wrote:

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.

I'm skeeered

gus · March 13, 2004

fish wrote:

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 · March 13, 2004

Sam wrote:

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 · March 14, 2004

Humungus wrote:

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 · March 14, 2004

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

Richard Cabesa · March 14, 2004

Another pest

David

SavannahMan · March 27, 2004

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

fish · March 27, 2004

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

wxwax · March 27, 2004

SavannahMan wrote:

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

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

wxwax · March 27, 2004

fish wrote:

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 · March 27, 2004

wxwax wrote:

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 · March 27, 2004

fish wrote:

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 · March 27, 2004

My all time favorite bug shot:

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

From a couple of summers ago:

rutt · March 29, 2004

Bug & Flower
Combining two of my favorite subjexts:

Richard Cabesa · March 29, 2004

I'll throw another on the stack

David

Xcellenc · March 29, 2004

An emerging darner
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fish · March 29, 2004

Richard Cabesa wrote:

I'll throw another on the stack

David

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

Richard Cabesa · March 30, 2004

fish wrote:

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

OK Cliff, haven't you got some mail you need to deliver? :smooch

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