More about two, six ,eight., and a thousand legs....
August 1, 2012
I’d posted about
but here are some more interesting creatures from that morning at Arikere Reserve Forest….
There’s an old riddle, “Have you seen a house fly?”…and the answer is, “They don’t…” But here’s one:
Here's a
CRAB SPIDER
looking away from me,
and at me!
This is web of
SOCIAL SPIDERS
see the wasp caught in the web.
This one's a
KATYDID
(and don't ask me what Katy did...I don't know!)
Here's a
LYNX SPIDER
female, with her egg case:
and the male:
You can see a female
BARON:
a male
BARONET:
and an
EMIGRANT
(on its way to the US, perhaps?)
If you thought (like I do) that those names make no sense, here's a name that does...the
COMMON REDEYE:
Here's how to photograph it:
This one's a
PLANT HOPPER
belonging to the family Fuligoridae:
This is the
COMMON OAKBLUE:
(the open wing shows a bright electric blue)
A
CHOCOLATE PANSY
sits, well camouflaged, in the leaf clutter:
This is the cat ( Which is what butterflyers call a caterpillar) of the
COMMON BRANDED AWL:
You want the size reference?
We asked
Karthik
what this was, mimicking a tiny scorpion....he said it WAS a tiny
SCORPION:
We did look at beings with merely two legs, too, and amongst the human beings and the dogs I saw this
SHIKRA:
Three more bipeds whose knowledge of butterflies and moths I esteem very highly:
Karthik, Krushnamegh Kunte, and Rohit Girotra:
An
ANT
But there are, literally, millions of legs in this photo, because
MILLIPEDE
means, a thousand-legged one!
