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The Chipmunk
Yesterday as I was walking through Charlestown Meadows I saw a little chipmunk with a few nuts in his mouth scurry across the path, run across the leaves and down into a hole. I waited and waited and the chipmunk emerged from the hole and ran back across the leaves, jumped up on a…
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Macrosiagon – Otherwise known as the Wedge Shaped Beetle – Look at those Antennae!!
Brand new bug for me. And not such a good one. I learned that they hang around flowers that wasps like. Then the female beetle lays her eggs. The eggs hatch and the larvae are carried by the wasp to their own nests. “Instead of eating both the wasp’s egg and the pollen stored…
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Praying Mantises Have Hatched Once Again
I’m leaving for ten days in Svalbard, Norway tomorrow to hopefully photograph the polar bears. As I was getting ready and watering the plants on our deck for the last time for a while, I was thrilled to find the praying mantises have hatched and one posed for me on our yellow pansy. Here…
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Find the Macro Lens in his Eyes!!!
First little jumping spider of the season. Click on him and see the lens in his four front eyes. I dare ya!!
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Little White Moth Laying Her Eggs Today in Charlestown Meadows
She was under a leaf and I could not coax her out. After I looked at the photographs I realized she was laying her eggs! (Click on the photograph to really see those eggs.)
