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Picture Pages: BugsPage by Royce
Last update: $Date: 2004/10/08 22:01:10 $ (UTC)
I don't generally take a lot of pictures of bugs and the like, since I far prefer vertebrates such as birds, mammals or reptiles. But every so often a bug of some kind will catch my eye and I'll snap a picture.
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Here is a fairly large, very green grasshopper that I encountered July 24, 2004 in the area of Water Valley, Alberta. There were a lot of grasshoppers out in the field I was moving through, but this one easily was the most impressive. Too bad I couldn't get him to come out of hiding in the tall grass. This shot was taken with a Canon EOS 10D + EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens, hand-held.
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Here is a nice, red dragonfly that I was lucky enough to catch sitting still for a moment. This was taken the same day at the same location as the green grasshopper in the previous picture. This shot was taken with a Canon EOS 10D + EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens, hand-held.
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Back in Confluence Park the next day (Sunday, August 24, 2003) I came upon quite a number of these millipedes, each 2 - 3 cm long. For some reason a pack of them decided it was time to cross the paved pathways. Perhaps they were looking for the chicken.
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The same late summer Saturday August 23, 2003 that I saw the grasshoppers (next photo), I also took a close-up shot of this bee as it lazily wandering from one puffball to the next. Both the insect and the plant have a shimmering quality in this shot.
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I came across many grasshoppers during my outings in Calgary the summer of 2003. It was a very dry season and the grasshoppers were much more plentiful than in recent years. This Saturday, August 23, 2003 I was out in north Calgary (in Confluence Park) looking for some Black-crowned Night-Herons, which I found. I also found large numbers of good sized grasshoppers like this one, which was about 3/4 the size of my thumb.
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While on a birding trip out to Bow Valley Provincial Park on July 26, 2003, I photographed this red beetle. It was about the size of a ladybug which is what I thought it was at first. If anyone knows the identity of this beetle, please let me know (royce@3ge.com).
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Deb made a work trip to Brighton in the UK. While there, she visited Audley End on June 15, 2003. She a camera along, mostly to take photos of the scenery: buildings, flowers and so on. Lo and behold while looking at one cluster of flowers, she saw something that looked like a hummingbird but wasn't. She snapped some quick pictures and we later determined that the critter captured in the images is a Hummingbird Hawk Moth. It certainly looked and behaved quite like a hummer!
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Here is another view of the Hummingbird Hawk Moth, sipping nectar.
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While out looking for birds in Englewood, Colorado (a community right on the south of Denver) in August, 2002, I happened to spot a lone dragonfly perched above me on a branch. Shots against the sky often don't turn out when I simply fire on full auto, but this one came out.
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