Macro photography in my yard

[urbpan]

Some of these are pictures I took for aesthetic reasons, and some are creatures I'm not confident enough of to use in my project. If anyone knows more specifically what these things are, let me know and it'll count as one of the hundred. Otherwise, just sit back and enjoy.



This is a wireworm, the larva of a click beetle. They live in the soil feeding on detritus or plant roots. I found a bunch when I was pulling up the knotweed. I hope they eat the knotweed roots.


This is a nymph of an assassin bug, a predator that pierces it's prey with a beaklike proboscis, sucking out the goo inside.


A jumping spider crouches camouflaged in the duff.


The big tree in my front yard has these flowers. I'm starting to get the sad sinking feeling that it's Norway maple.


Dandelion, super close up.


Tulip, which will have its own entry soon. I just liked catching it immediately before blooming.


Some miniscule silk spinner tangled its gossamer between the petal tips!


This small attractive ornamental grass sedge is festooned with yellow pollen.

Comments

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Is the problem with the Norway Maple that it's not a native species?

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

First one's a stink bug or fellow-traveller.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/pdc/Factsheets/Insect/TrueBugsHome.htm

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[jenn forman orth (from livejournal.com)]

Yep, that is indeed Norway maple in bloom. The grass is actually a sedge, likely genus Carex.

norway maple

[stephanie radner (from livejournal.com)]

Dedham is full of norway maples, those bright lime green trees lining every street. I had one removed last fall, I'm getting a sugar maple from the town for arbor day. Check out the town website: http://www.dedham-ma.gov/index.cfm?cdid=19589&pid=11808

suspicious comment?

[stephanie radner (from livejournal.com)]

why is my comment suspicious?

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

It's a ultimate or penultimate nymphal rough stink bug, probably Brochymena. The spines on the prothorax and the protuberances on the connexivium give it away.

I also suspect that's a nymphal damsel bug, Nabidae, rather than Reduviidae. Assassin nymphs tend to be broader and more brightly colored. But there are some narrower-bodied assassins like Stenopodines, so I could very well be wrong.

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

Dandelion?! Wow!

[weofodthignen]

Aww, Norway maples are lovely trees.

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