Recent Posts Tagged With 'insects'

• Bee wings, be still!

  Posted on Sunday August 2nd, 2009 at 19:30 in garden, hawaii, insects

  At last, I was able to get a photo of the wings of a honey bee. I've been taking a lot of photos of the honey bees that visit the cactus flowers in my neighbors garden. Several came out well, except that the wings were just a blur. Solution: take ...

• Honeybee Close-up

  Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 23:05 in garden, hawaii, insects

  I returned to my neighbor's garden to take more photos of the honeybees harvesting pollen from some cactus flowers. I cropped this image from a larger photo. It shows quite a bit of detail on the bee, including a dusting of pollen grains on its bod...

• Honey bee approaching a cactus flower

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 21:35 in garden, hawaii, insects

  As I passed by my neighbor's garden, I noticed a cactus (species unknown) with big, white flowers. The local honey bees have noticed the cactus flowers, too. They were busily gathering pollen from the blossoms. [Click on the photo to enlarge.]Name:...

• The 'Black Witch' Moth (Ascalapha odorata)

  Posted on Sunday July 12th, 2009 at 23:25 in hawaii, insects

  This is quite possibly the largest moth I have ever seen. I saw it at rest on a window screen. First I photographed it, then I attempted to measure it. Good thing I took the picture first, because as soon as I touched the screen with my ruler, the...

• Another Oleander Hawk Moth (Daphnis nerii)

  Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 20:10 in hawaii, insects

  Back in August, I posted a photo of an Oleander Hawk Moth (Daphnis nerii). I wasn't entirely happy with the angle of that shot, but the moth flew away before I had an opportunity to shoot it from a different perspective.Earlier today I was going thro...

• Oleander Hawk Moth (Daphnis nerii)

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 12:20 in hawaii, insects

  Yesterday I posted a photo of a colorful caterpillar that is the larval stage of the Oleander Hawk Moth. Today's photo shows the adult Oleander Hawk Moth (Daphnis nerii). Don't you love it's camouflage suit? We see only a handful of these large he...

• Hawk Moth Caterpillar

  Posted on Wednesday August 27th, 2008 at 13:10 in hawaii, insects

  This colorful caterpillar is the larval stage of the Oleander Hawk Moth (Daphnis nerii). We see just a few of these around our garden every year. This one was about 2 inches (5 cm) long. I love the great big eye spots.The caterpillar in this photo ...

• Garden Spider with a Beautiful Web

  Posted on Sunday May 18th, 2008 at 20:00 in hawaii, insects

  This Garden Spider (Argiope appensa) is fairly common here in Hawaii. It is a member of the Orb Spider family (Areneidae), named for the classic wheel-shaped webs that they spin. As far as I know, it is not venomous.This is a relatively large spide...

• Rock Rose Ice Plant with Honey Bee

  Posted on Friday May 9th, 2008 at 20:50 in garden, hawaii, insects

  One section of our garden is on a steep hillside. One of the plants we use for a ground cover there is the Rock Rose (Aptenia cordifolia), a succulent in the Ice Plant (Aizoaceae) family. All morning long, the pretty red flowers on this plant attr...