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Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea: Fulgoridae North Carolina State University Insect Museum Taken 3-15-2010; Canon G11; 35 images (7x5) "This drawer contains members of the insect family Fulgoridae. Fulgorids are plant-hoppers that suck plant juices with their straw-like mouthparts. Along with plant juices, fulgorids consume large amounts of plant waxes which they sometimes exude as filaments on their posterior end or as a fine waxy coating (seen in some of the GigaPans). Many fulgorids have enlarged head processes (that often look like a big nose, though they are really just an extension of the back of their head), which were once though to produce light; thus fulgorids are sometimes known as lanternflies." |
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ACG, Costa Rica, Rincón de la Vieja, Pailas 1327m - Jan 17 2010
10.80806, -85.34626, 1327m Super windy with some cloud - I ended up wearing my jacket for most of the day. GigaPan was taken facing west. |
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Smith - Campbell wedding had a beautiful bunch of blueweed that had attracted a large group of skipper butterflies!
Blueweed (Echium vulgare; also known as Blue devil, Blue-thistle, Viper's bugloss, vipérine, vipérine vulgaire, herbe aux vipères) is in the Boraginacae family. Often characterised as a 'weed', but a beautiful plant! http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/ontweeds/blueweed.htm I used autofocus here, and locked focus in http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=21704 How many skippers can you find? |
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Douglas Ontario - December 25 2009
Christmas morning - how many evening grosbeaks (Coccothraustes vespertinus) were around? Same location was GigaPan'ed two days later (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/39963/), on a brilliant morning with the remnants from a small episode of freezing rain that was too good an opportunity to pass up! Same location as in GigaPan'ed in October 2009 http://gigapan.org/gigapans/34550/ & in June 2009 http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27013 & in December 2008 http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=14585 & earlier in October 2008 http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=11089 |
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Outside the entrance to Capitol Reef National Park is this particular outcrop - the red layers are offset just to the left of the mesa at the right side of the pan (I'll snapshot it...). There's a nice description of the geology on a nearby plaque (not visible here....) |
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Downtown Austin looking North from the south bank of Lady Bird Lake. |
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Mesic Red Oak-Northern Hardwood Forest, Salisbury, Vermont -- This well-drained kame terrace in the Salisbury Town Forest supports a dry example of this forest type with three oak species. The forest community is distinguished by the absence of sugar maple, an important component of hardwood forests on less droughty sites. It includes red oak, white oak, and chestnut oak, and I think at least one black oak (I have yet to get my hands on a leaf or acorn from it).
This GigaPan can be viewed in its geographic context here: http://conservation.townofsalisbury.org/panoramas/townforest/index.htm Some botanical and technical information is in a comment. |
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Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea: Fulgoridae North Carolina State University Insect Museum Taken 3-16-2010; Canon G11; 35 images (7x5) "This drawer contains members of the insect family Fulgoridae. Fulgorids are plant-hoppers that suck plant juices with their straw-like mouthparts. Along with plant juices, fulgorids consume large amounts of plant waxes which they sometimes exude as filaments on their posterior end or as a fine waxy coating (seen in some of the GigaPans). Many fulgorids have enlarged head processes (that often look like a big nose, though they are really just an extension of the back of their head), which were once though to produce light; thus fulgorids are sometimes known as lanternflies." |
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I took this "small" gigapan early on January 7, the day the USS Missouri was launched after an $18,000,000 refurbishing. I was fortunate enough to be invited on board during the filling of the dry dock, and the subsequent towing of the ship to its mooring at Pier Foxtrot 5. It is again in formation with the USS Arizona. Many veterans and active duty personnel were on board, as well as members of the USS Missouri Memorial Association. The ship is now owned and operated by the non-profit memorial association.
Upon disembarking, each guest was given a memento of the occasion - a small piece of the ship (a replaced bolt or plug). |
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Colloquially called 'the blues' because of the blue-grey color, these sedimentary rocks outcrop in a canyon along Rte 12 in southern Utah.
The blue-grey rocks are part of the Cretaceous Kaiparowits formation, which formed when large rivers deposited their sediment. The orange layers in the distance are made up of younger Claron Limestone - this is the same rock unit that appears in Bryce Canyon. |