Introducing …
… variations in form, of one life.
Wild, instinctive little biological robots at work and play, or just being what they are.
Jumping Spider sitting on bamboo stake, overseeing …
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Chafer – Flower – Beetle, belatedly found the one piece of banana in the garden.
Weevil on the orange, on a bamboo stake.
Tiny female Fly laying into the ageing lemon on a stake.
Daisies, a popular roost for flies at night. This one preening after a good poo, like people do.
Tiny Bee roosting on the aromatic dried out Basil.
Injured or deformed Hopper, same spot for a week. The one on the left is how they look normally.
And not one problem between them … evidently.
© Mark Berkery ……. Click on those pictures for a closer look
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I always love your pictures. These are no exception. So clear, with a lot of depth of field. You always capture their personalities. Weevils always crack me up for some reason. Must be their proboscises.
Thanks Mark.
Mary
Thanks Mary. They are funny looking I suppose, just not to a weevil I bet.
Splendid. The deformed Hopper – did the other Hopper stay nearby or were you just lucky to catch the two together briefly? Reminds me of the little Mynahs when their buddies get squashed by cars trying to revive their friends/rellies.
The second came and went. The other is gone now too. These gather along the new branches of the yellow butterfly bush.
“And not one problem between them … evidently.” My, how we could learn from them! I especially like the lead photo of that lovely little spider, Mark. But all beautiful, as always.
WE do, don’t we, by observing it. Realising it is another matter. Thanks Cate.
Gorgeous photos! I think the hopper is molting…
Thanks. If it is I think it’s stuck, five or so days like that without any change doesn’t make sense.
Yeah maybe a molt gone wrong?
This bug just doesn’t know how to give up the old and move on … If bugs could. :-)
impressive but SCARYYYYYY !!!!
Can’t see the scary bit … :-)
haha ! you’re so funny !!!!
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Awesome! I love jumping spiders and have some fossilized ones in amber from millions of years ago. They are cute and magnificent! :)
Cheers Tom.
I never thought of a jumping spider as having a personality, just an urge to jump onto my camera lens. However, if they do posses such a thing, you captured it in your photo. I din’t think I’ve ever seen any spider photo before that displayed what appears to be a personality.
Thanks David. I think it’s just the way they are designed – for want of a better word.
Great photos, as expected! Now I’m going to put a half orange outside to see if anything is tempted to investigate it though it’s so cold now I can’t imagine what bugs would be about.
Orange, lemon, banana, whatever is handy really. Once it starts ageing something will come to investigate, as long as there is some nature about. Thanks Mac …
Thanks for showing us this world of tiny creatures in such incredible detail! Beautiful pictures!
Thanks Amira. It is amazing, the form and detail of these creatures.
Beautiful photos!
Thanks WG …
Mark, your featured image of the jumping spider is extraordinary. (Can you tell I like those little guys?) It took my breath away. The little headlight eyes, fuzzy legs … amazing detail. Thanks for this.
If there’s an insect with personality it is the jumping spider. Thanks Sally.
I agree!
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