Welcome to my second Macro Monday.
These are Large White Butterfly eggs on the underside of a Nasturtium leaf in Hatherton, Cheshire.
These eggs are tiny and were photographed with the high magnification OM Zuiko 38mm macro lens.
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Tag: OM Zuiko 38mm f/2.8 macro
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Weekend Challenge: What is it?
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: What is it? #4.
I had an idea for this challenge when putting together a post for a different photo challenge. However, I couldn’t find the photo I wanted to use. I knew I had it as a colour slide and that I had made a digital copy previously although a cropped, low resolution version.
So can anyone identify these?
The reason I couldn’t find the good digital copy was because I had added the keywords as I uploaded them from memory without checking the caption on the slide mount.
As a result they were misidentified!
They are seeds of the Corncockle. Once a common weed in wheat fields it is now uncommon due to modern farming practices. All parts of the plant are poisonous so it’s lucky my misidentification was limited to my photo library.
I had identified them as Oriental Poppy seeds which are a similar shape but have rows of dimples on them rather than the rows of raised spots on these seeds.
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Does anyone know what this is?
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Weekly Prompts: What is it?
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: What is it?
Having been digitising my slide archives this winter I had a few photos suitable for the challenge.
In the 1980s BBC Wildlife magazine used to hold a monthly photo competition. Each month they would publish a photo of a mystery nature subject and the first person drawn from the entries to correctly identify the species would win a years subscription to the magazine.
What is it? No one correctly identified this photo so the magazine didn’t have to give away a subscription that month. The answer is below.
What is it? This is the inspiration for Velcro, or hook and loop fastener as it is more correctly known according to the company that makes Velcro. These are the burrs, or hooks, on a Lesser Burdock seed head. The burrs/hooks are what cause the seed heads to attach themselves to clothing and animal hair.
The first photo is a close-up of the clumps of hair on the body of a Ruby Tiger Moth caterpillar. Possibly the caterpillar in this photo although the captions on the slide mounts don’t include a date so I can’t be sure.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Macro prompt was rather well timed. I have spent part of the winter digitising my slide archives that include hundreds of macro images.
A Ruby-tailed Wasp. Given that the ruby red tail is usually covered by the wings a more appropriate name would be an Emerald-bodied Wasp.
Fly Agaric fungi cap detail.
A portrait of a Common Quaker Moth.
Spines on a Teasel seed head in the autumn.
