Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The Coolest Thing I've Ever Photographed in the Backyard!

Hot off the Compact Flash card- I took this image on Wednesday evening while shooting insects on our Canada Goldenrod patch in the backyard. Absolutely amazing! This is an ambush bug, in the subfamily Phymatinae , and possibly in the genus Phymata. Isn't it cool?

Check out a larger image on black that I have posted at TA Photography.

Tom

9 comments:

  1. It looks like a lizard or dinosaur- crazy!

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  2. Cool, indeed! It took me quite a while to see it. That's some camouflage!

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  3. How did you EVER see that??? I agree, it looks like a lizard!

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  4. Definitely a wonderful insect and a good image of it. I've never seen this bug before, either. I had a similar "arthropod camouflage" experience last year on my Heliopsis--a golden-colored spider that perfectly matched the flower's color was sitting in ambush amongst the flower rays. If a photographer hadn't pointed it out to me, I never would have noticed it!

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  5. Wonderful catch! I'll be watching my goldenrod more closely, for sure!

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  7. These rank with my favorites--these and wheel bugs.
    Imagine the horror of discovering one if they were larger!

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  8. Well now THAT's an appropriate name! Well captured!

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