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

[anais2.livejournal.com]

But...those are male flowers, aren't they? The Norway?
They need an accomplice.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I had to look it up: "Norway Maple can be monoecious or dioecious, producing male (staminate) flowers and female (pistillate) flowers on either the same or separate trees." http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/norway_maple.htm