July 2013 Photo Challenge: Bug Off!!

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This extended exposure, taken at night on a dock at Canandaigua Lake, shows the flight patterns of many insects as they paint with light from a dock lamp. Note the wing-beating patterns.

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Kelly wrote:I don't know what this one is called, but it seems to have a cream cheese filling! :yum:
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Kelly, cool! Saw something sort of similar in a pond but had no idea what it would grow up into. Yours is much prettier!

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One more, this one from my living room in Thailand.

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And here's a cool video of it as it moves across the room. Note the rocking motion to allow it depth perception, and when it swings its head to see me, that's pretty creepy:

http://youtu.be/7vpis44bVaM
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crazy good pics. Any deadly bugs to worry about in thailand?
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The brown recluse spider can be.
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Matt wrote:crazy good pics. Any deadly bugs to worry about in thailand?
Plenty! Yes the brown recluse spider. And the cobras and other snakes. And the mosquitoes carrying dengue fever.
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macnmotion wrote:Note the rocking motion to allow it depth perception
I always thought they rocked like that to mimic leaves and branches blowing in the wind. You learn something new everyday.

And great pictures too!
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