{"id":26069,"date":"2020-05-27T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=26069"},"modified":"2020-05-26T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T16:07:00","slug":"on-this-date-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/05\/on-this-date-22\/","title":{"rendered":"On this date 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mist
So it would appear that, fourteen years ago in 2006, I was visiting my family up in central New York, since this is mist rising off of Skaneateles Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in the center of the state – if you want to know how to pronounce that, saying, “skinny-AT-less” won’t earn you too many funny looks from the locals. It looks like a typical NY winter in this pic, and might well have been chilly, but it wasn’t that<\/em> cold. I know I was driving around with my dad and trying to find a way to make a scene out of the twisting vapor on the water before it disappeared, and settled on this. I like the foreground elements, anyway…<\/p>\n

We now jump ahead seven years.<\/p>\n

\"closeup
This one is a little out-of-sync, or something, because it was 2012 when I really kicked in the arthropod photography and cataloged about every life stage of lady beetles (Coccinellidae<\/em>,) but this was taken in 2013 instead. Nonetheless, the head detail is appreciable, if I do say so myself, and I like how it makes it obvious that the white bit is not<\/em> the head, but the ‘shoulders’ of sorts, a shield over the thorax called the pronotum<\/em>. The coloration is aposematic, bright and contrasty ‘keepaway’ hues that are memorable to predators, because lady beetles have a method of discouraging predation:<\/strong> they can produce hemolymph, their blood, from their joints and it’s apparently pretty distasteful – I’d managed to obtain some images of it back then and thought<\/em> that I’d posted some, but can’t find them. I’ll follow up shortly – I can’t do it here because they weren’t taken on this date.<\/p>\n

\"bumblebee
Five years ago in 2015, I was at a nearby pond (no, not that<\/em> one, but another, further off but not far,) chasing what the pickerelweed (Pontederia<\/em>) had to offer, and this image first appeared back then<\/a>. The little jumping spider was also taken on that date, but some of the others in that post were taken on previous days – I’m almost positive none were taken on any subsequent days. My memory is just that good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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