The Nature Photography Thread

[Cazador]

Interesting use of latin there Rick! The wings look a bit damaged, did you shoot it before you took the photo?

Guilty as charged . Those little flies were trying to carry me off one day. They bite really bad, but after I whacked him, I noticed how awesome his eyes looked. There were some with blue eyes, too.

Rick

[Stefan-A]

Blue-eyed bast***s..

Wait, what? You can say ******* now? o_O Nevermind, just the plural form.

[GarterGuy]

I love carnivorous plants. Everytime I try to grow a Venus Fly Trap it dies. I want to move on to harder plants but if I can't keep a VFT alive
Anyway, you are so lucky to be able to see them in the wild!

Check your PM!

I have a Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) that will be celebrating it's 22nd birth day this August. I also have an 8yr. old Cape sundew (Drosera capensis) and a 6yrs. old Nepenthes mirabilis. Used to have a lot more, but some of them got fungus or bugs or whatever and I haven't replaced them. I used to have a huge Drosera dichotoma that was almost 1.5ft. across, but it died while I was on vacation. Definitely got to get another one of those. Oh and I just got, last year, a Purple pitcher plant (Sarrecenia purpurpea purpurea) that's just coming out of hibernation. Use to have a huge on of those, but it didn't winter over well for me the one year and died.

[abcat1993]

From now on I'm going to only get tropicals (or at least ones that you don't have to have go dormant). Also, they tend to need less light anyways. 22 years old? Woah. Mine probably won't last a year, so sad, along with my pitcher plant which isn't doing half bad under fluorescent lights.

And Stefan: I hate those bee-fly things' bites. At camp, when doing dishes after camping, we couldn't manage to kill it, and it kept biting us and made a few of the young kids cry.

[adamanteus]

European Peacock Butterfly. Inachis io.

[Stefan-A]

Same as above.

[adamanteus]

Stefan, we all know you have a better camera. Quit showing off!

[stonyloam]

Further proof of my age regression (about 50 years). I collected monarch caterpillars and kept them in temporary care till they hatched. This is a female (thick black veins on the wings).

[adamanteus]

That's a great picture Terry. Caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly, all in the one shot. Genius. I'm really enjoying your age regression!

[stonyloam]

Thanks, James, I am glad you like my pix, but my “genus” has a lot to do with being able to take about a million digital photos, and picking the one that looks best.