May 2, 2008...5:15 am
A few shots for the weekend
Not much to say today, but I thought I would discuss some more photos I took by my building at work.
I found this small centipede in some leaf litter I was going through and decided that was not the most photogenic place for it. Therefore I found this flower nearby and placed it on top. The centipede seemed rather confused and wandered around the flower for a bit, before I placed it back in the leaf litter. It’s probably the equivalent of someone putting us an Mars - we would likely wonder - “where the heck are we?” (note: I am assuming whoever did it was kind enough to give us a space suit or else we wouldn’t have much time to think).
I have no idea what type of centipede this is, except that they are common around here - this isn’t the first one like this I have seen. My current guide books do not go in depth on centipedes - so some day I will need to pick up a book that deals with them.
This is another shot of it on the other side of the flower.
This is a midge, which look like mosquitoes but don’t bite. They are very easy to photograph because they tend to sit still for periods of time. For more on midges, read a post on them.
Finally, I don’t always shoot insects, so here are two other shots I took that day. I’ll end for the weekend with them.





3 Comments
May 2, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I found on my trip on the mountains some myriapods and searched for information. Quite a difficult job to find the exact species as Wikipedia says there are more than 13.000 and counting.
May 2, 2008 at 6:08 pm
These are great and you always take such stunning macro’s!
May 3, 2008 at 12:03 pm
The Antennae on the midge are really cool.
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