An aphid offering a drop of honeydew to a protecting ant. The honeydew consists of sugar that the aphid can't process. The ant may "milk" the aphid by tapping/stroking the aphid with its antennae.
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My macrophotography. Lots of bugs -- flowers, water and other things if I can't find fauna. (Click on a photo to enlarge, click again for an even greater enlargement.)
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- We had some rain last night. It's always a bit of...
- The captioning possibilities here are wonderful. ...
- The flower splits to reveal and release the seeds....
- An odd flower sprung from the seeds of the birdfee...
- When all the petals of a peony fall off, the manda...
- I like the spikey feel of this one, but the honeyd...
- An aphid offering a drop of honeydew to a protecti...
- Two very different looking aphids on one of my dan...
- The remains of a peony at the beginning of fall.
- Raspberry leaves announce the coming of fall.
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- Some writing
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- Rowan found this spider yesterday and I wasn't abl...
- And finally for today, some head/face details.
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- Pretty Lady.
- Waiting to Be Released
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- I wasn't there for the actual emerging, but this i...
- Really ... I'll look this up soon. For right now,...
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- This would then be "Behind the Sun".
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- Hypatia
- Colorado, United States
- I'm a mom of three incredible children. I also do quilting, photography, math geek stuff, computer wrangling, origami, and entomology-arachnology geek stuff.
1 comment:
*eeks!* Ants...they give me the "itchy scratchies".
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