Sphinx.
White-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata), in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Tag: Flagstaff
Sphinx.
White-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata), in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Hopper.
Blue-winged grasshopper (Leprus sp.), in Flagstaff, Arizona. This insects’ otherwise impeccable camouflage is defeated by the brilliant blue coloring on its legs and abdomen. And in flight its exposed hindwings flash like sapphires.
Please click photo for an enlarged view.
Hopper.
Blue-winged grasshopper (Leprus sp.), in Flagstaff, Arizona. This insects’ otherwise impeccable camouflage is defeated by the brilliant blue coloring on its legs and abdomen. And in flight its exposed hindwings flash like sapphires.
Please click photo for an enlarged view.
Skeeter.
Skeeter.
I’ll be taking a tumblr break for a few days while Thing 1 visits from Virginia.
Here’s a rodeo cowboy (“My back!!!”) and startled calf (“I don’t understand. What’s happening to me!?!”) to mark your place until regular posts resume.
I’ll be taking a tumblr break for a few days while Thing 1 visits from Virginia.
Here’s a rodeo cowboy (“My back!!!”) and startled calf (“I don’t understand. What’s happening to me!?!”) to mark your place until regular posts resume.
Wolf’s milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum).
The fruiting bodies of this organism are sometimes mistaken for puffball mushrooms. The common name is thought to refer to the unpleasant, acrid fluids it produces. Yuck.
At Veit Spring Trail, on Agassiz Peak near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Wolf’s milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum).
The fruiting bodies of this organism are sometimes mistaken for puffball mushrooms. The common name is thought to refer to the unpleasant, acrid fluids it produces. Yuck.
At Veit Spring Trail, on Agassiz Peak near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Dithyramb 