NEWS FROM THE MEADOWS 16.6.2020

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A very cool Horsefly, wearing cool sunglasses, just landed on the very common Plantago lanceolata plant that is very useful for humans, as food and medicine ...
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... some small bug from the Miridae family ...
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... is hiding among the florets of the Knautia arvensis flower ...
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... the fly is cleaning its mouth apparatus ...
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... the bug came out on the open, now is standing on the top of the flower ...
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... the Horsefly is still occupied with face washing.
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A minuscule iridescent wasp is running up and down the Thistle plant stem ... among the long line of aphids ... pushing them with the forelegs occasionally ...
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... while, a still small but considerably bigger, wild bee has just finished feeding on the Hypochaeris radicata flower.
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Many meadow inhabitants are resting on the ears of grass ...
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... this Hippodamia variegata Lady beetle ...
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... a small butterfly from the Hesperiidae family ( There are quite a few similar looking species around here) ...
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... a relatively large tick waiting for some host animal ...
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... a small orange colored wasp that recently visited some pollen rich flower ...
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... and another small bee.
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The Lygus bug nymph is posing on some currently unidentified plant ...
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... and so is this Pyrrhocoris apterus nymph ... but on a different plant.
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Many small flowers are scattered around.
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There is this beautiful orange one ... and then ...
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... there is this beautiful blue one ... identical in shape, different only in color.
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There is this hypnotic seed pod ...
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... and some ants are transporting one of those things into their underground colony.
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A dried out Puff mushroom is standing nearby ... like some strange alien ruin ...
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... there is an interesting isolated landscape inside this bowl ...
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... some kind of little desert ... on some distant planet.
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Flat-faced longhorn beetle Agapanthia cardui is climbing along the very thorny Scolymus hispanicus plant.
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The click beetle is watching the world from high above the long leaf of some pretty tall grass.
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A small grasshopper nymph is resting on some hairy leaf.
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The Oulema melanopus beetle is resting on some plant that has some similarity to Dandelion ... but its flowers and seeds are much bigger.
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Some small snout beetle of currently unidentified species is walking around the Malva sylvestris plant ... and then ...
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... starts to feed on the same plant. And now ...
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... while showing you some more bug species I don't know much about ... I would like to tell you a few words about the concept of this post.
I spend a lot of these warm days filled with interesting flora and fauna, on the meadows not far from my home. I take a lot of pictures each day and is getting difficult to come up with an effective title for this kind of meadow - themed posts. :) That's how the "NEWS FROM THE MEADOWS PROJECT" was born.
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Hope you like this meadow stuff :D because a lot more of it is coming.
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As always in these posts on HIVE, all the photographs are my work.
The beetle on the last photograph is the Lachnaia italica, a leaf beetle species.



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Wow! These insects are from outer planets of the galaxy!! They wear very strange costumes!

I am hypnotised by that seed pot!! You must have very good eyesight to see these tiny things!

Very superb photography!!

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Thanks :) the spiral seed is a powerful thing !

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So many different arthropods! Watch out for ticks! I think the dandelion-like plant you referred to might be salsify.

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I checked salsify photographs on Internet. Could be, definitely.

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So many cool bugs! I dunno which one is better...
Love the hypnotic seed!

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:= ) Thanks, greetings from the bugs and the meadows. Hypnotic seed is a powerful thing, maybe should be even illegal for its visual properties :D

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This post was chosen to be voted by THEUNION. theunion.png

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News from the meadows :D Love the title. Looks like everything is ok in the meadows :) Btw is it just me or are your close ups getting even more sharp and impressive with every post?

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I think you are right :) I have some new cool equipment since the end of last summer, and a lot of practicing these days surely has some impact on how the new stuff looks.

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Ah, that´s why... makes sense :) Cool, keep the quality up. Looking forward to more "news from the meadow" :D

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It gets scary when I imagine them the size of a human)

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Most of them will surely look scary :) ... but then some, like fluffy moths and some jumping spiders, will maybe look funny.

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This is so, but still they are like aliens) And we are lucky that they are so small)

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Another cool set of pictures that could be serve as great resources for researchers in the nearest future. Do keep up the good works.

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Thank you :) Glad you like these photo collections from the nature in my area.

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Oomph, how many ticks to you end up getting when you go out on photoshoots?

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Always less than I expect :D fortunately ... it comes up to 4 - 7 for the whole season (and the year actually) ... there is a lot of them here only in spring. I see them sporadically also in summer, but never got one in summer ... for what I remember.

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