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Photo of the Day - September 2021
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Hello ! How R U ?
Look this picture made by mini-Olympus in 2011, behind head to my parents should be twin towers.
NEVER FORGET 911
Allow me to send all my positivity to the families ! <3
Look this picture made by mini-Olympus in 2011, behind head to my parents should be twin towers.
NEVER FORGET 911
Allow me to send all my positivity to the families ! <3
'Glacier Lily' - observed on a forest trail walk, in EC Manning Provincial Park, BC (July/2020). Camera on iPad Mini 4.
A slightly closer view of the Common Toad Flax.
Great shot, I was sleeping but heard the thunder in the distance. It is rare that we get these types of storms. The last time I heard thunder, it was from lightning directly overhead, no flash but incredible intensity, like an earthquake.
Alfred gets the idea of Social Distancing but the three amigos prefer to stick together!
Strolling around with my 85mm yesterday, kind of overcast but warm anyhow.
my other hobby is plant mommy - this is one of my fiddle leaf figs
ummm. so i am reluctant to admit that i did not realize before right now that you are female. your name is generic enough to go either way and since this site skews so heavily male i assumed you were also. it’s nice to have more women here. 🙂
A dead tree on a ledge higher up from our camp site (Fault Lake, ID). Thought about doing this one in B&W, but really like the color of the moss on the branches:
Shot on an iPhone SE (2020). Exported from Photos.
Shot on an iPhone SE (2020). Exported from Photos.
Just hard to believe it's been 20 years. ?
I swear these guys are like having a frat party in my backyard. I often find them in groups of three, procreating to beat the band. I've even caught them 'doing it' through a hole in a leaf, while doing it with one on the same side of the leaf. They are natures perverts! YUCK!!!
EDIT: I have video of a bunch of them on a leaf. Oh, and one 'mounting' another, and appearing to be 'thrusting' on it. I mean, OMG, it's pretty sick... #BugPorn?
I catch as many of them as I can in a bottle filled half full of a dish soap and water mix. No way is anything going to be having that much sex in MY yard!!!
EDIT THE EDIT: And they eat my roses. One year, the first year I ever saw them, they striped my many rose bushes and several ornamental trees. I mean, striped them to branches and the thick parts of the leaves. They did it completely three years in a row. Decimated rose bushes, and all. I started catching them, and spreading a variety of 'organic' grub control measures, and now I've only caught a pair on my rose bushes. One thing that made their infestation hard to end was, I believe, the rocks I had surrounding the area. I have found hundreds of grubs in the dirt that accumulates in the rock beds. Cleaning the rocks was nothing I thought I'd have to do, but all of it together seems to be working. I used to use Starbucks Iced Coffee bottles for catching/killing them, and in the worst of it would have a bottle half full of drowned beetles. I could half fill a Nestea tea bottle in one day. I had to switch to larger bottles to serve as 'kill jars' because the smaller bottles were filling up so fast. I'd see over a dozen on one leaf. I also got into a brief argument with a Japanese beetle 'expert' who said their eyesight was 'poor'. I could hear them dropping off the leaves as soon as I got within 10 feet of the areas I harvested the damn things. They have really pretty good eyesight, but fly like they are drunk. And aren't exactly intelligent. One beetle, I tried to capture, and he flew away, only to land on the same leaf, and then flew away again, and, you guessed it, landed on the same leaf. Then I got it, it actually flew into the bottle. They supposedly were imported on some agricultural items from Japan (trees).
EDIT: I have video of a bunch of them on a leaf. Oh, and one 'mounting' another, and appearing to be 'thrusting' on it. I mean, OMG, it's pretty sick... #BugPorn?
I catch as many of them as I can in a bottle filled half full of a dish soap and water mix. No way is anything going to be having that much sex in MY yard!!!
EDIT THE EDIT: And they eat my roses. One year, the first year I ever saw them, they striped my many rose bushes and several ornamental trees. I mean, striped them to branches and the thick parts of the leaves. They did it completely three years in a row. Decimated rose bushes, and all. I started catching them, and spreading a variety of 'organic' grub control measures, and now I've only caught a pair on my rose bushes. One thing that made their infestation hard to end was, I believe, the rocks I had surrounding the area. I have found hundreds of grubs in the dirt that accumulates in the rock beds. Cleaning the rocks was nothing I thought I'd have to do, but all of it together seems to be working. I used to use Starbucks Iced Coffee bottles for catching/killing them, and in the worst of it would have a bottle half full of drowned beetles. I could half fill a Nestea tea bottle in one day. I had to switch to larger bottles to serve as 'kill jars' because the smaller bottles were filling up so fast. I'd see over a dozen on one leaf. I also got into a brief argument with a Japanese beetle 'expert' who said their eyesight was 'poor'. I could hear them dropping off the leaves as soon as I got within 10 feet of the areas I harvested the damn things. They have really pretty good eyesight, but fly like they are drunk. And aren't exactly intelligent. One beetle, I tried to capture, and he flew away, only to land on the same leaf, and then flew away again, and, you guessed it, landed on the same leaf. Then I got it, it actually flew into the bottle. They supposedly were imported on some agricultural items from Japan (trees).
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