Ladybug
Reader Joe “b13″ Biondi sends in this ladybug photo.
Wow… I just… wow.
It’s perfect for a wallpaper. Click here for the the full-size (1400×1024) image with his url burned onto it for your desktop-photo pleasure.
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peggysue1971 said,
January 1, 2008 @ 10:15 am
I love ladybugs! I have never seen one with such a shiny carapace, you can almost see the reflection of the camera. Did Joe shine her/him up for the photo shoot? How do you tell if its a her or a him?
tceisele said,
January 1, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
That’s a good question: what *are* we seeing reflected in the left wing cover? It almost looks like the reflection of an eye. Is that the camera lens, or a ring flash?
I was going to say, “at least it doesn’t appear to be an Asian Multicolored Lady Beetle”, but it looks like it is Coccinella septempuctuata, the Seven-Spotted Lady Beetle, which is *also* an imported species. So, either way, it isn’t one of the native lady beetles.
Oh, and Dave: good to see you back posting, when you missed a couple of days there I was getting a bit worried. Not *too* worried, but a bit.
b13 said,
January 3, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
I’m pretty sure that was a reflection of the camera and possibly me. I shot this with a Nikon 8800 and I think I had the screen open so that I could frame it up a little easier.