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10 Incredible Close-Up Photos of Bugs
weather ^ | 26 May 13 | David Joback

Posted on 05/26/2013 5:06:45 AM PDT by SkyPilot

Fly

Jumping Spider

And with babies

Aphids

Dragonfly

Woodlouse

Nosy Beetle

Longhorn Beetle

Praying Mantis with prey

Spider

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: insects; photography
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To: SkyPilot

My in-laws, from years ago!


21 posted on 05/26/2013 6:02:54 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: SkyPilot

It has eyes for ya!


22 posted on 05/26/2013 6:06:15 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea
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To: SkyPilot
I once had a preying mantis, in the nature center where I worked, enclosed in a tank for the public to see. I would give the mantis a supply of 10 crickets for food weekly. After that supply was eaten by the mantis I would bring in another ten crickets.

The third week into the summer I left for a few days off after re-supplying the mantis with another ten crickets. I came back a few days later and found the preying mantis torn to pieces, and the crickets chirping happily.

What comes around, goes around I guess.

23 posted on 05/26/2013 6:10:49 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: SkyPilot; SWAMPSNIPER

Nice ...


24 posted on 05/26/2013 6:11:59 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: varmintman

I wouldn’t “believe” in evolution as a static theory. We shouldn’t pretend to know how any of it works at this point. Our job is to continue gathering evidence and let that do the talking.

There’s pretty convincing evidence that birds (let’s use your example) came from dinosaurs. They likely didn’t have to reinvent themselves. Dinosaurs already had light bone structures; some had feathers and many other bird like qualities. I agree that it’s highly unlikely they just *poof* generated the necessary organs for flight if they didn’t previously exist.

Scientists and others get themselves in trouble when they begin to take theories whether it is evolution, creationism or even global warming too seriously. They begin to refer to things as “matter of fact” and turn these issues into a religion. Let’s just keep making discoveries and see where it takes us.


25 posted on 05/26/2013 6:30:30 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: miliantnutcase

There actually are flavors of junk science which are relatively harmless. Evolution is not one of those. Evolution was the main philosophical corner stone for Nazism, Communism, and the various eugenics programs; it is a flavor of junk science with 200,000,000+ dead bodies to its credit. We need to get rid of it.


26 posted on 05/26/2013 6:37:44 AM PDT by varmintman
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To: SkyPilot

Impressive


27 posted on 05/26/2013 6:54:18 AM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: varmintman

One also supposes that if evolution was a reasonable explanation, it wouldn’t recognize perfection. All of today’s insects would still be undergoing changes. With the thousands of varieties, one of them, at any time should be morphing new abilities or shedding limiting traits. Yet we’re unable to find the one that heralds an improved version of current model year.


28 posted on 05/26/2013 7:21:59 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: SkyPilot

I clicked on this thread, knowing full well I had no business doing so, and I deeply regret it, LOL.


29 posted on 05/26/2013 7:24:34 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: SkyPilot

30 posted on 05/26/2013 7:29:16 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: SkyPilot
Photos of Bugs
There's only one "Bugs" ...


31 posted on 05/26/2013 7:38:46 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: SkyPilot

32 posted on 05/26/2013 7:41:15 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SkyPilot

Eewww, creepy, scary. Time to don the boots.


33 posted on 05/26/2013 7:49:12 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: SkyPilot

It takes a super lens to do that!


34 posted on 05/26/2013 7:50:12 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SkyPilot

Jumping spiders are cool, and many are really cute. When we find them in the house, we either leave them alone or help them outside (in warm weather).


35 posted on 05/26/2013 7:54:09 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: varmintman

M4L


36 posted on 05/26/2013 8:08:52 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: Fresh Wind

I can look at close ups of bugs, but this really really creeps me out.


37 posted on 05/26/2013 8:09:56 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: SkyPilot
Jumping spiders are the best!


38 posted on 05/26/2013 8:10:02 AM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: SkyPilot

Cute until is jumps on me, then it’s dead!


39 posted on 05/26/2013 8:10:47 AM PDT by No Socialist
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Awwww.....I think the Jumping Spider is kind of cute

That picture makes it look like he has pupils, makes him seem intelligent.

40 posted on 05/26/2013 9:05:21 AM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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