A bumblebee I found in the poppies at a botanical garden.
Tag: insects
A spotless lady beetle, um, spotted on a weed growing by the sidewalk
A spotless lady #beetle, um, spotted on a weed growing by the sidewalk.
Buckeye Butterfly
Buckeye #butterfly spotted in a field near LAX airport. There were a lot of butterflies of at least three types flitting about in the mustard, but this is the only one that stayed still long enough for me to catch a photo.
Final landing approach (honey bee and Matilija poppy)
Final landing approach….
(Same hike as the duck photo I posted earlier today.)
On Photog.Social
On Flickr
Matilija Poppy on iNaturalist
Bee on iNaturalist
Murgantia / Harlequin Bug
Murgantia / Harlequin Bug
Honey Bees
Why it’s so hard to get rid of Argentine ants.
Meet the worst ants in the world
Why it’s so hard to get rid of Argentine ants. Also some interesting insights on how founder-effect genetic bottlenecks can change the behavior of species as they move into new ecosystems. In their original habitat, each colony fights each other ruthlessly. But when a colony hitches a ride on a ship or train and expands in a new region, all that region’s ants descend from the same colony and read each other as friends, not foes.