Tag Archives: Macro

The Numbers Game #49

Kiawe trees and Muana Kea telescopes silhouetted against an early morning sky
A view of telescopes on Mauna Kea from Mahukona.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 170. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A lion statue with a air of sunglasses
A cool lion at The Hilton.
A firefighting helicopter drops water on a brush fire in Hawaii
A fire helicopter dropping water on a brush fire hot spot.
Three cats resting in Hawaii
Hard working cats!
A Sonoran Carpenter Bee clambers through agave attenuata flowers
A Sonoran Carpenter Bee on an Agave Attenuata.
A couple performs on the beach at sunset in Hawaii
As The Pretenders once sang, ‘I got to have some of your attention.’
The beach at ʻAnaehoʻomalu Bay in Hawaii
ʻAnaehoʻomalu Bay beach, more commonly known as A Bay.

The Numbers Game #45

A boy hangs off a yellow raft off the coast of Hawaii
A yellow raft on blue water.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 166. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

Monarch butterflies mating on a kiawe tree
Monarchs mating.
An I'iwi calls in a forest off Saddle Road, Hawaii
An I’iwi calls.
A Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly perched on a twig
A Roseatte Skimmer dragonfly.
Rust forms on a water tank
A rusty water tank.
The wall of the Ackerman Gallery Building in Kapaau, Hawaii
Art gallery wall.
Maiapilo flowers in Hawaii
Maiapilo flowers.

Blue-eyed Ensign Wasp

A Blue-eyed Ensign Wasp in Hawaii
A Blue-eyed Ensign Wasp in Hawaii

I see these wasps quite often, flitting about, with the little black abdominal part on the stalk vibrating noticeably. However, it wasn’t until recently that I identified them.

This is a Blue-eyed Ensign Wasp (Evania appendigaster) and it’s considered a beneficial insect because it’s a parasitoid, which lays it’s eggs in the eggs of cockroaches. The wasp’s offspring feed off the cockroach eggs, which results in a few less cockroaches in the neighborhood.

Alas, we do not appear to be running out of cockroaches, or seem likely to do so in the immediate future.

The Numbers Game #41

A small plane flies low over Upolu Airport, Hawaii.
A fly-in at Upolu Airport.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 162. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A praying mantis and a fly
A fly on a praying mantis.
Street art in Hawi, Hawaii
Street art in Hawi.
A red-crested cardinal
A Red-crested Cardinal.
A dry cow pasture in North Kohala, Hawaii
Dry pasture at Upolu.
Irrigation in North Kohala, Hawaii
Irrigation for dry pastures.
A cow and her new calf
A cow with her newborn calf.

A square deal for bugs

A Seven-spotted ladybug on a leaf in Hawaii
A Seven-spotted Lady Beetle pauses on a leaf.

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘All about bugs.’ See more responses here.

Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Seven. See more responses here.

Ants and aphids on a crown flower leaf in Hawaii
Ants farming aphids on a Hawaiian Crown Flower leaf.
A Black Soldier Fly in Hawaii
A Black Soldier Fly on a window.
A Bee on tree heliotrope flower in Hawaii
A bee on Tree Heliotrope flowers

The bugs in the next gallery were all on the same Monstera leaf, which had accumulated falling flowers from a palm tree.

A Fly in Hawaii
A Scholastes bimaculatus fly rummaging in the flowers.
A Banana Stalk Fly in Hawaii
A Banana Stalk Fly with a smaller fly.
A Black Earwig on palm tree flowers in Hawaii
A Black Earwig hunts through the flowers.