Tag Archives: insect
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Macro Monday: Ladybird/bug
19Monday 18 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Depending on where you are from, you’d know this as a Ladybird (UK), or a Ladybug (US). Here we call it …
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Macro Monday: Finger puppet?
5Monday 04 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Here’s a friendly little praying mantis… We get these a lot around here, and I’m truly fascinated by them. They …
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Macro Monday: New strange bug!
24Monday 23 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This weekend I was happily winding down after a long session doing some more serious chores in the garden itself, …
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Macro Monday: Another fly
12Monday 09 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
For Macro Monday this week, I have selected another ‘fly’ shot. It’s not in perfect focus I think, and perhaps stretching the …
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Macro Monday: Mr McFly
6Monday 26 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
For my Macro Monday entry this week, here is a little chap who was having a staring competition with me …
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Macro Monday: The Wasp Mk II
1Monday 19 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having another spot of breakfast, on a Sunday this week, and yet another young wasp decided to join in the …
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Macro Monday: Fly inspects autumn colours
1Monday 12 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is my entry for Macro Monday for this week. Hope you all enjoy it! SPIKE
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Macro Monday: The Wasp
1Monday 05 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having a spot of breakfast on Saturday, and a young wasp decided that the honey was just too delicious to …
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Macro Monday: Locust
7Monday 21 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Locusts are regular visitors to our farm; not on any biblical scale, but just enough for the chickens to chase, …
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Macro Monday: Damselfly
14Monday 07 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
These are my Macro Monday images for this week, taken by my wife on an LG-G2 phone. Hope you all …
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Macro Monday: Semi-transparent bug
8Monday 17 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This former, ex, gone, departed, or just plain dead bug has joined us this week for Macro Monday. From its …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Creepy (I)
10Saturday 15 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
How about a creepy poo-bug?? This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a Mole Cricket, or Gryllotalpa …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Close Up (II)
16Monday 27 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was a small find among the woodpile! Hope you enjoy …
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In memory of our bougainvillea…
11Wednesday 29 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It looks like our two bougainvillea’s have become the latest victims from the much colder than normal winter, albeit it was just perhaps ten …
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Macro Monday: ‘Bug Eyes’
13Monday 26 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday. Found this little fella hiding behind the bougainvillea that I was cutting back …
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Macro Monday: “Small but tough”
15Monday 01 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Another bug from our balcony. These small centipede type bugs are small, but really tough. …
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Macro Monday: “Cute Arachnoid”
7Monday 24 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Living in rural Turkey, we share our world with our arachnid friends; from tiny weeny …
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Macro Monday: “Busy Bee”
2Monday 26 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. . . . Hope you all like it ! .
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Macro Monday: “Pink Bug”
11Monday 19 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. . . Hope you all like it ! .
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The Short Life of Mr Poo-Bug
17Saturday 12 April, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Usual farm life this past few days… shifting a tonne of cow poo to the open fertiliser depots for use …
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So What Was In The Woodpile?
20Thursday 06 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
When tackling the woodpile this week, I found a little friend. The challenge was, what did I find, and where? This …
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