Looking at the apothecium , the cup or saucer-like fruiting bodies of the lichen, I would venture a guess as it being a Hoary Rosett but there are a couple of others that look similar also. The thallus of the lichen you have here is similar to the Hoary Rosett but then again, there are still a few o...

Hey look, its the Doublemint Twins! :lol: Look at that rattle, 18 buttons I can count in the photograph. :shock: Those two lovebirds must really be big. Well they say there is someone for everybody. :wink: A really nice photograph Mike. I am sure you will make up for the deficient in herpetological ...

Hey thanks Doug. You must either have a lot of patience or a lot of time on your hands. :lol: I go to BugGuide sometimes but they have too many repetative images of the same insect it seems and the pages go on and on, which to me gets very tiresome and I get tired of looking for things but BugGuide ...

Well I'm really not sure its a hopper but it looks like one to me. Thanks Sue

Glad that you liked them, the lichens, Doug. :D Lichens for the most part seldom draw attention as far a photography goes, except for those who may be interested in them or unless they are quite colorful like those that you posted earlier. :D As for these moth scales, they can sometimes be hard to p...

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Well, I guess that explains that. Didn't know that Tom, thanks . I suppose I will never see one do that but then again who knows. I refrain from prowling around outside at night to much, except for an occasional evening of star gazing with my binoculars.

These are some beautiful shots Paul, very clean and detailed. Some interesting facts you brought up there too.

My old version of Photo Impact has tools like that in it. I seldom try them out though, maybe I should. Pretty neat image Doug.

I have a few pines in my backyard which are doing the same thing. One profusely. There are large gobs of resin everywhere beneath that one particular tree. It has had no limbs broken off and the source is not even near a limb, so I am figuring that there is an insect(s) causing the large amount of r...

Looks black to me Doug. I have seen some dark colored ones around here but mostly a very dark olive with spotted wings. Nice shot.

Got to admit, I did eat a lot of greens and you would be surprised how tasty some of them were. Of course there were other things like fruits and coconuts. We used coconuts to catch monkeys.

After exploiting the moth with a serious and quite open head wound, I decided to take a shot of its wing scales. The grainy appearance is not so much as noise, as it is the reflective properties of the scales themselves. :D http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/4_AX0013A_1.jpg Sony DSC-P200 ...

I went through two weeks of survival training a long time ago. Hoppers and roaches can keep you alive. However the school was only two weeks long. I opted out for a fresh bird or two, maybe even a tuff little monkey, till it was all over.

Thanks Doug. Poking eyes out are not really my style. I prefer to do surgical removal of bodily parts when applicable. I think I have a power saw around here somewhere.