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25 bizarre facts about butterflies
We need more respect for insects. Let’s start with butterflies. They are easy to love. Here are 20 bizarre facts about them. 1. The eyes of many butterflies have a pentachromatic colour system,...
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Common wood nymph, Cercyonis pegala
On a Sunday morning photo ramble through the conservation area, I encountered this demure but lovely butterfly. It is Cercyonis pegala, the common wood nymph. Several of them fluttered around the...
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Nature news roundup August 9 2013
I have always wondered why a cottontail rabbit or white-tailed deer concerned with escaping from danger would fly a white flag of a tail. A study using human gamers by Dirk Semmann, evolutionary...
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Macro a day, week 2
Click a photo to view larger images in a carousel. Here are the photos from my second week of shooting a macro a day, focusing mostly on the world of small beneath my feet. In keeping with early April...
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Backyard habitat for black swallowtail caterpillars
Two weeks ago today I chanced to witness a black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polyxenes, taking advantage of my backyard habitat. It was laying eggs on dill plants in my garden and the neighbour’s....
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Cottage vignettes: flora and fauna around the dock
Since I’ve been practicing all winter with the macro lens, it’s going to be fun exploring the cottage environs this year. All the photos here were taken on or from the dock on our lake in Algonquin...
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