Hunter
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If anything looks different this week it might be because I am using a different computer, having lost access to my usual via lightning strike.
These spider shots are from another time. His, or her, hunting ground was a dried out stem. The fly didn’t stand a chance once in range.
Such is life, you never know what’s coming over the horizon. Careful with that spidey mate.
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Neon Beeauty
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There isn’t much insect activity in the garden after a hot and dry summer and recent unseasonal heatwave.
The native bee’s nests are devoid of activity. Because they know, without thinking, it’s not a good time to be born right now.
The heat has seriously stressed the flowering plants the bees need for survival and recovery may be a protracted process. If …
But here are a few that came before, magical little bee of neon blue on black. Little beauty bee.
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Neon Once More
At first she looked fine, out of the nest and paused, taking stock of her sensible world.
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As all sensible creatures do. Though her sense of things would be limited by her damaged antennae.
Later in the day it was apparent all was not well, still on the mud brick and now covered in dust.
Maybe from her diggings, laying her eggs, or something to do with her damaged appearance.
She was lively enough, for a while, though behaving as if disoriented, wings spread without flight.
And later still she was flagging, unstable flight attempts and always returning to the mud bring nest.
At one point she re-entered a nest hole and ducked from my attentive lens. Then came out again.
One time she failed to take off and hit the floor. Climbing up a skink jumped her and she lay still.
I picked her up and gave her a little water and she was away again. What happened then who knows, turn your back and the world changes. Life moves on …
Nothing has it good all the time. This Neon Cuckoo Bee was having trouble getting its bearings.
Lost one antennae and, it appears, one mandible. Maybe it was in a fight with a BBB.
Maybe it was born that way. Who knows … there are no guarantees in this life.
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Spider Green
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It’s been a while since I found this little dancing jumping spider. Entertaining to watch as she moves around the foliage, staccato gait.
No doubt there are still some in the garden but the summer heat has driven them into the shadows, for some relief.
Not so easily found right now. But summer is almost over and with a little rain comes the forms of life.
Time to wake up from the lazy heat, kick start the old ticker, and see what may be.
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