" The Phantom of the North🦉" //© Marc Bouldoukian
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Giant greeting. 💪 Patreon commission for @/gamer14f on Twitter.
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Feathers everywhere! Guess these guys are molting 🦆
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Temptation Lavender holds her thumb out on the highway but don't pick her up if you don't want sweet memory to die. She's a killer of a dahlia, and she's on the run.
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" White Beauty " //© Kevin Mueller
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this Mud-dauber Wasp chose our windowsil to build her nest! after a bit of investigation of me and my camera, she graciously allowed me to photograph her while she worked on her construction.
in the photos above, she has arrived with a ball of mud collected from somewhere nearby. this nest isn't for her to live in, but for her young to grow and pupate. in this mass of mud she will craft several individual cells, and provision them all with the paralysed bodies of orb-weaver spiders. each cell will have a single egg laid on the first spider, before being sealed off with more mud.
here, she picks the next spot to deposit her ball of mud, using her mandibles to smooth it onto the structure. when the larvae hatch, they will consume all the spiders in their respective cells, before pupating and then emerging as adults wasps.
each time she finished with a layer of mud, she would take a moment to groom her forelegs and antennae, before flying off to repeat the process. these photos were taken earlier in the Summer, and as of posting this, the adult wasps have yet to emerge.
Covered-cell Mud-dauber Wasp, female (Sceliphron laetum).
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In Macro Photos, Barry Webb Captures the Fleeting, Otherworldly Characteristics of Slime Molds and Fungi
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The Future of Western Civilization (tm)
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