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Post by jamesp on Sept 2, 2017 18:03:09 GMT -5
Looks like a water boatman chowing down on a dragon fly  Spider cannibals out the innards of another spider  bizarre digital color molestation. Laydeckeri Fulgens water lily bloom with dragon fly. No idea why the dragon flies are doing this.  guessing this one is tending eggs. bug is 1/4" long   Kung fu grasshopper  China Mark Moth larvae, cost me many thousands destroying water lilies 3/8"  Sabre52 ? Some kind of fly larvae I believe. 3"  Gotta get some better shots of this colorful water bug. 1/4" long  Dracula like backswimmer or boatman upside down. May be taking in air, may be watching for food. King of the kill game. water bugs don't play. spiders, small fish, tadpoles fair game. Injects digestive juices in prey or you Giant water bug(3-4 inches) is the last bug you want to bite you from a pain/infection aspect  The rest c1.staticflickr.com/5/4345/36151157844_cec869f25b_z.jpg |
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Post by coloradocliff on Sept 2, 2017 18:46:30 GMT -5
Stand back Jim Will help you out.. Awesome pictures..
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Post by jamesp on Sept 2, 2017 21:30:05 GMT -5
That can would easily do the job. about all photos were taken of one 8' X 16' water holding box. Lots of action in the little world. |
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Post by Garage Rocker on Sept 2, 2017 21:46:42 GMT -5
When you get down on that level and look around, you can spot a lot of action. Jeremy txrockhunter spends hours on his belly, camera at the ready and has the portfolio to prove it. James laying in the pond, water lilly ghillie suit...ambush style. |
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Post by coloradocliff on Sept 2, 2017 22:23:29 GMT -5
Yep Ole jamesp would be styling in that ghillie dealie.
Water holding box for???
And RAndy, @garage Rocker ,as good as you are with a camera, you must have done this or are heading to do this.
You can order a water holding box, complete with plant life, insects and one free amphibian on Ebay. Some guy in Georgia. 100 bucks and you just bought your own little world.
Tell me this boys, when you're in this tiny world of bitty bugs.. DO you ever see them as tiny chickens grazing on tiny pastures.
Or at times something needing smooshed?
JAmes saw a tole panted bit of art in a sign for sale.
Said
" Standing around a fire pit and drinking with your friends is all fun and games....
until..,,,,, someone's wiener falls into the fire. " Grin... |
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Post by jamesp on Sept 3, 2017 4:32:31 GMT -5
When you get down on that level and look around, you can spot a lot of action. Jeremy txrockhunter spends hours on his belly, camera at the ready and has the portfolio to prove it. James laying in the pond, water lilly ghillie suit...ambush style. This 16 X 8 box has unkept imported tropical lilies in it. Has not been cleaned out in years. Full of sinister critters. Changing monthly. Tropical water lilies mostly from the equator round-about Africa and S America. High metabolism. Thinking it may attract the more aggressive colorful creatures. Sits up off the ground and a dairy crate makes a good seat for photo access. Float dead bugs , food sorts, lettuce along the edge and come back hours or a day later and presto all kinds of Ghouls and Monsters come to feed. Yea, the small world is by far the most aggressive world Randy. The aquatic world is especially aggressive. It would help if a big sheet of white plastic was submersed light enhancement for a photo backdrop. Like white sand bottom in Bahamas/Florida. Good polarizer for camera to loose the glare. Just another avenue to tinker with using the micro on the TG-4. Not pro grade photos but not too bad. I could learn the population of tiny bugs with it. I can't see them well, too small. Must take photos and load to computer to see them well. Then do the DSLR macro thing(you and txrockhunter). I think Jeremy should make himself a container pond, all it takes is like a 100/200 gallon Rubbermaid cattle water container. |
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Post by jamesp on Sept 3, 2017 4:35:33 GMT -5
Yep Ole jamesp would be styling in that ghillie dealie.
Water holding box for???
And RAndy, @garage Rocker ,as good as you are with a camera, you must have done this or are heading to do this.
You can order a water holding box, complete with plant life, insects and one free amphibian on Ebay. Some guy in Georgia. 100 bucks and you just bought your own little world.
Tell me this boys, when you're in this tiny world of bitty bugs.. DO you ever see them as tiny chickens grazing on tiny pastures.
Or at times something needing smooshed?
JAmes saw a tole panted bit of art in a sign for sale.
Said
" Standing around a fire pit and drinking with your friends is all fun and games....
until..,,,,, someone's wiener falls into the fire. " Grin... LOL, these are supposed to be fail proof Cliff. Note little nuts and big nut, relates to little head and big head. Clever idea and motif Miss Barbie.  |
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Post by coloradocliff on Sept 3, 2017 9:35:39 GMT -5
Yep Ole jamesp would be styling in that ghillie dealie.
Water holding box for???
And RAndy, @garage Rocker ,as good as you are with a camera, you must have done this or are heading to do this.
You can order a water holding box, complete with plant life, insects and one free amphibian on Ebay. Some guy in Georgia. 100 bucks and you just bought your own little world.
Tell me this boys, when you're in this tiny world of bitty bugs.. DO you ever see them as tiny chickens grazing on tiny pastures.
Or at times something needing smooshed?
JAmes saw a tole panted bit of art in a sign for sale.
Said
" Standing around a fire pit and drinking with your friends is all fun and games....
until..,,,,, someone's wiener falls into the fire. " Grin... LOL, these are supposed to be fail proof Cliff. Note little nuts and big nut, relates to little head and big head. Clever idea and motif Miss Barbie. Lmao.. Just gets worse and more fun... Thanks for the morning belly laugh.. C wigglinrocks
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Post by wigglinrocks on Sept 3, 2017 10:03:11 GMT -5
LOL, these are supposed to be fail proof Cliff. Note little nuts and big nut, relates to little head and big head. Clever idea and motif Miss Barbie. Lmao.. Just gets worse and more fun... Thanks for the morning belly laugh.. C wigglinrocks
Got your cookout all planned Cliff ? |
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Post by coloradocliff on Sept 3, 2017 10:39:53 GMT -5
Lmao.. Just gets worse and more fun... Thanks for the morning belly laugh.. C wigglinrocks
Got your cookout all planned Cliff ? Heck no Boys.. No cookout for me.. Maybe rockdunker will save us a wiener. Heard he was having Asian wieners today.. I'm eating salad.. shudder...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 11:39:28 GMT -5
The spider that ate the guts out of another is actually a recently moulted spider and the hollow one is his old skin
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Post by jamesp on Sept 3, 2017 12:21:48 GMT -5
The spider that are the guts out of another is actually a recently moulted spider and the hollow one is his old skin Ah, I get it Scott. Makes perfect sense. |
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Post by jamesp on Sept 3, 2017 12:25:11 GMT -5
Figured the weiny cookers would get a rise out of coloradocliff. Calm down cowboy. |
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Post by captbob on Sept 3, 2017 12:26:11 GMT -5
The spider that are the guts out of another is actually a recently moulted spider and the hollow one is his old skin I had no idea that spiders did that. Thanks for the schoolin' Scott. |
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Post by coloradocliff on Sept 3, 2017 12:40:19 GMT -5
When you get down on that level and look around, you can spot a lot of action. Jeremy txrockhunter spends hours on his belly, camera at the ready and has the portfolio to prove it. James laying in the pond, water lilly ghillie suit...ambush style. This 16 X 8 box has unkept imported tropical lilies in it. Has not been cleaned out in years. Full of sinister critters. Changing monthly. Tropical water lilies mostly from the equator round-about Africa and S America. High metabolism. Thinking it may attract the more aggressive colorful creatures. Sits up off the ground and a dairy crate makes a good seat for photo access. Float dead bugs , food sorts, lettuce along the edge and come back hours or a day later and presto all kinds of Ghouls and Monsters come to feed. Yea, the small world is by far the most aggressive world Randy. The aquatic world is especially aggressive. It would help if a big sheet of white plastic was submersed light enhancement for a photo backdrop. Like white sand bottom in Bahamas/Florida. Good polarizer for camera to loose the glare. Just another avenue to tinker with using the micro on the TG-4. Not pro grade photos but not too bad. I could learn the population of tiny bugs with it. I can't see them well, too small. Must take photos and load to computer to see them well. Then do the DSLR macro thing(you and txrockhunter ). I think Jeremy should make himself a container pond, all it takes is like a 100/200 gallon Rubbermaid cattle water container. Ghouls and monsters feeding at night. Sounds like a salt water fish tank at night... .. Had a few big ones I played with in past interests. The brine shrimp "food" and the living rock in the tanks really add a lot of tiny and unusual life to the ecosystem. Be cool to see what the lil fellas look like sized up. Bet really scary. Miniature dinos of a sort.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 3, 2017 12:49:29 GMT -5
The spider that are the guts out of another is actually a recently moulted spider and the hollow one is his old skin x2 - my thoughts too |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 13:21:00 GMT -5
The spider that are the guts out of another is actually a recently moulted spider and the hollow one is his old skin I had no idea that spiders did that. Thanks for the schoolin' Scott. It's how all invertebrates grow. Consider soft shell crab.... Delicious! Freshly molted crabs they are. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 13:24:50 GMT -5
The spider that are the guts out of another is actually a recently moulted spider and the hollow one is his old skin Ah, I get it Scott. Makes perfect sense. I once had a precious tarantula for years. She moulted a few times, never saw it. One occasion I came home late at night and she was on her back! I was devastated (as a kid I liked tarantulas a lot and she was gorgeous!). Went to bed figured I would deal with it in the morning. I woke up to a bright new spider and a shed skin. They flip on their back! |
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Post by jamesp on Sept 3, 2017 15:54:11 GMT -5
Ah, I get it Scott. Makes perfect sense. I once had a precious tarantula for years. She moulted a few times, never saw it. One occasion I came home late at night and she was on her back! I was devastated (as a kid I liked tarantulas a lot and she was gorgeous!). Went to bed figured I would deal with it in the morning. I woke up to a bright new spider and a shed skin. They flip on their back! Well, that's a small water spider soon to be large. Is the shedding process due to growth ? I must have caught the buggar in the act. Pants down lol. Why don't we get knew skin ? |
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Post by jamesp on Sept 3, 2017 16:12:02 GMT -5
This 16 X 8 box has unkept imported tropical lilies in it. Has not been cleaned out in years. Full of sinister critters. Changing monthly. Tropical water lilies mostly from the equator round-about Africa and S America. High metabolism. Thinking it may attract the more aggressive colorful creatures. Sits up off the ground and a dairy crate makes a good seat for photo access. Float dead bugs , food sorts, lettuce along the edge and come back hours or a day later and presto all kinds of Ghouls and Monsters come to feed. Yea, the small world is by far the most aggressive world Randy. The aquatic world is especially aggressive. It would help if a big sheet of white plastic was submersed light enhancement for a photo backdrop. Like white sand bottom in Bahamas/Florida. Good polarizer for camera to loose the glare. Just another avenue to tinker with using the micro on the TG-4. Not pro grade photos but not too bad. I could learn the population of tiny bugs with it. I can't see them well, too small. Must take photos and load to computer to see them well. Then do the DSLR macro thing(you and txrockhunter ). I think Jeremy should make himself a container pond, all it takes is like a 100/200 gallon Rubbermaid cattle water container. Ghouls and monsters feeding at night. Sounds like a salt water fish tank at night... .. Had a few big ones I played with in past interests. The brine shrimp "food" and the living rock in the tanks really add a lot of tiny and unusual life to the ecosystem. Be cool to see what the lil fellas look like sized up. Bet really scary. Miniature dinos of a sort.
Like a whole world in a single rock, and not a world you want to be in. Lest you're a tiny porcupine. Or a giant water bug. With a proboscis. A thing of nightmares. |
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