JEWEL IN THE FOAM
After a bit of aimless driving from village to village in the rural area around the town of Motovun, about seventy-eighty kilometers from home, I stopped to spend some time in search of insects and plants for today's post.
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Among a wide variety of interesting, colorful stuff on the meadow ...
... this structure made of foam was the first thing that caught my attention.
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When I made a little hole in it to take a look at its mysterious interior ...
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... I saw this young but fully developed Philaenus spumarius, a very common froghopper from the Aphrophoridae family.
This species comes in a dozen or more variations with different markings and coloration.
The foam is produced by the larvae. A female can produce up to three hundred fifty – four hundred eggs that are laid singly or in groups of up to thirty. Once out of the egg, the larva generates the protective foam that provides a nice humid shelter with favorable temperature and humidity in its interior.
The result of this very effective strategy is that the mortality in the larval stage which lasts about 50 days, remains very low even in bad weather.
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A bit further on the same meadow ...
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... I came across this beautiful orchid ...
... the Neotinea tridentata, commonly known as the three-toothed orchid. This species that grows across southern and central Europe can't be found in the seaside areas around my hometown. I mean, I never saw it there.
This small spider that I wasn't able to identify was photographed in the short grass under the orchid.
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The Agapanthia cardui beetle was resting on some yellow, dandelion-like flower not far from there.
I took two shots ...
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... and then, I noticed a bug that I rarely encounter in my area. Here, on the Leucanthemum vulgare flower, you can see the Dryophilocoris flavoquadrimaculatus, a species from the Miridae family.
AND THAT'S IT. IT STARTED WITH THE FOAM ...
... AND THEN EXPANDED A BIT. HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE MACRO VIEW. SOON THE SOFT RAIN STARTED TO FALL, AND I DECIDED THAT DRIVING BACK HOME COULD BE A GOOD IDEA.
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Looks like some bugs are having a decent foam party :D Awesome shots :)
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😀Definitively. A party life since a young age.
I just learned from you in the bush there is foam containing the leafhoppers, because usually foam like that is where frogs lay eggs, a good shot with long trips.
True, some frogs lay their eggs in similar foam. I saw it only in documentaries because those frog species don't live in my area.
Glorious as ever ... in these times in which travel is so fraught, these are literally therapeutic!
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Lol so that's the critter that makes those foam things. I never had the guts to poke a hole to see what was inside of those things.
In this foam thing was the froghopper 😀but who knows, in some other, you may find something less common, maybe dangerous, even alien perhaps.
Very interesting to see the foam and find that little larva inside of it. That it creates such an environment for itself. Didn’t know that, haven’t found anything like this before. Thanks for sharing that information @borjan 😁
Such a great captures of the flowers and other insects. Beautiful, love the details.
Bubbles are pretty fun, have a great weekend.
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Huzzah! Now I want to go around and poke some holes in the foamy stuff I see on my lavender.
That spider you shared is what we call an "Orb Queen" or "Barn Spider". They seem to have the most amazing webs mid summer.
🙂 Good luck with poking the foam. You may find some different species.
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Beautiful shots!! Really unbelievable pictures! I don’t like insects, but I love their pictures! Congratulations for this macro view photos!!
Thanks. 🙂 Yes, the cool thing about photography is that it can bring you the image and leave the insect somewhere far away. I have always been ok with most insects but spiders, ad example, gave me creeps. Until I started observing them often through the macro lens. The macro view somehow changed my perception and now I'm ok if the spider crawls on my hand.
This is the first time I've seen her, she's very charming
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Neotinea tridentata I recently saw an orchid as beautiful as this, it seems that this model of orchid is rare in my area, we only have many ordinary orchids.Thank you friends for sharing beautiful pictures for us.