Amazon Pics Part 27

Moebius · Post by **Moebius** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:01 am

Showed a nice side view of this same species a while back:

Walking stick? Weevil?

Small (1 cm) solid black hopper.

Ken Nelson
Canon 30D
Sigma 150mm

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:57 am

Some more great photos Ken. The background to pic2 shows the result of some interesting (although some might say boring) activity.

Bet Steve Valley pricks up his ears at this one

Bruce

Moebius · Post by **Moebius** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:24 am

Bruce,

This was one of two downed logs that I got quite a few pics off of. Starting tomorrow I will be showing a fascinating behavioral series of orgiastic aggression between some flies of some sort taken on this same log that is one of my favorites .

Ken

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:35 am

I cannot get over how beautiful the Leaf & Treehoppers are in your photos Ken....simply amazing

Here again I would say you have a leafhopper in #1 and a treehopper in #3 and #2, I will say is some sort of Snout Beetle (Weevil). It looks like it has hard elytra (hardened forwings) covering its wings like a beetle. Nice little red mite on the Treehopper

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:59 am

Bruce Williams wrote:...The background to pic2 shows the result of some interesting (although some might say boring) activity.

Bruce

Playing with words, Bruce?

Double meaning?

Boring as adjective meaning tiresome and uninteresting or boring as noun meaning the act of drilling?

Nice photos Ken!

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:39 am

Nikola wrote:

Playing with words, Bruce?

Absolutely Nikola! For a non-native speaker you show a pretty impressive grasp of the English language.

Lijepi pozdravi (hopefully no gender error Nikola?

)
Bruce

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:20 pm

Bruce Williams wrote:Nikola wrote:
Playing with words, Bruce?
Absolutely Nikola! For a non-native speaker you show a pretty impressive grasp of the English language.

Lijepi pozdravi (hopefully no gender error Nikola? )
Bruce

Nice greetings!

No error at all.

(For a non Croatian speakers: "Nice greetings!" is literally translation of "Lijepi pozdravi!")

svalley · Post by **svalley** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:57 am

3 nice shots, Ken! #2 is very interesting....ain't insect evolution grand? I notice lots of little bore holes in the wood, some with little frass plugs, cool.