Tag: insects

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Interesting – to me at least – winged creature

Of sorts. Orange stripes would make you think of a bee, right? Yeah, not so much. From…

Posted in Sri Lanka Weird Stuff

One very weird day…

I went outside to the front yard – probably to hang up laundry or something – and…

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Spider!

A month and a half back, Fahim and I were returning home when we saw this truck. … Cuz I really don’t think we’re in an alternate universe right now, you know? As it turns out, we got our answer when the car we were in passed the truck.

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I am, apparently, quite clueless.

Mosquitoes bite me – and they bite me by the dozens to hundreds while everyone else around me is left completely alone – and the white part swells up to between a half inch to an inch in diameter with the red bit sometimes 4-6 inches in diameter. … Well, you get the idea. 🙂 I don’t know for a fact that I’m allergic to bees and wasps and other of the more, ah, dangerous insects, but given my allergic reactions in general and with insects, it’s a pretty safe bet that getting stung by them probably wouldn’t be a good idea, you know what I mean? 🙂 So why, oh why, do I do some of the things I do? I was outside and saw a bunch of flying insects swarming in the area around our no-longer-in-use Dialog satellite dish, so naturally, I had to take a step closer to find out what was going on.

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Project #365 Day 152 – The Ant and the Henna Plant

We have a lot of ants here. Big ants, little ants, littler ants. Some are fast and…

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Best Photos of 2007

I wish I knew what this flower is called. It has such an unusual – to me…

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Best Photos of 2006

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Favourite Photos of 2006

Cows are everywhere here. Cows that wander freely through neighborhoods and even in heavy traffic are common…

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Project #365 Day 88 Is that a wasp’s nest?

I generally make it a rule to stay as far away from biting insects as I can….

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Project #365 Day 87 Buzz!!!!

Somehow, and no, I don’t know how this happened, I managed to not take a single photograph…

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Project #365 Day 86 Fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty…

I don’t even know why it’s called a centipede. It doesn’t have a hundred legs, yet, centipede…

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Project #365 Day 84 Insects and Reflections

Fahim’s sister and her children were in town for Eid. Naturally, with three children old enough to…

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The Fly!

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Project #365 Day 76 Red Eyes

I wish I knew what kinds of bugs we had hanging around our house. This guy looks…

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Project #365 Day 71 The Dying of the Lime Tree

My poor lime tree. Okay, it’s really my mother in law’s lime tree – she planted it…

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Project #365 Day 70 Ants and Flowers

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Project #365 Day 69 Crane Fly? Or Something Else?

No idea what the heck this insect is, although it vaguely resembles crane flies. All I know…

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Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants

Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em…

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A Flying Dog

It’s staring at you. Can you feel it? I think it’s looking for its target…

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Project #365 Day 56 The Only Good Mosquito Is A Dead Mosquito

😀 May he rest in peace. Or pieces. 😀

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Project #365 Day 52 Volunteers

Every now and then, we have bugs that voluntarily die. Old age, maybe. This one landed on…

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I’m Seeing Wasps?

I’ve got to admit, it’s true, wasps frighten me. I’m allergic to just about every kind of…

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Spiders and Cob Webs

This picture is for the shop where I bought my stone mortar and pestle and cast iron…

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Project #365 Day 38 The Thing! and It!

We have altogether too many bugs and insects and creepy crawlies and things that make me scream…

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Day 32/#365 Alien Bug From the Andromeda Galaxy!

I wandered outside to our garden and looked at our pretty flowers (did you notice the ant…