One Other Thing

… about the new camera. It’s not just a (high speed) video camera, it also takes stills, though it doesn’t do all the things that an SLR does.

damselfly

This is a damselfly, which are related to dragonflies. The main difference to my eye (not being a biologist) is wings open vs. closed when resting. There are other differences, too, though rectal tracheal gills was a phrase I didn’t need to see. Oops. Spoiler alert.

A great, or at least pretty good, blue heron.

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A monarch butterfly and caterpillar

before-and-after

Some bug on Queen Anne’s Lace
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