Tiny Little Life

This weekend, I went on a trip to Vermont and saw a lot of interesting wildlife.

Another wonderful jumping spider with beautiful jaws.

A tussock moth caterpillar.

Hoverfly on a daisy.

Hoverfly on limestone.

Hoverfly on a purple flower.

Hoverfly on a purple flower.

Hoverfly on flower.

Hoverfly and paper wasp on flower.

Paper wasp on flower.

This grasshopper looks like nothing I’ve ever seen. […]

The Panasonic Lumix’s CCD just can’t match Canon’s. Of course, the prices reflect that in reverse.
More sweet shots of greenbottle flies and bumblebees after the break.

Lily with bumblebee.

Bumblebee in lily.

I judge the quality of a camera by how well it can pick up the details of greenbottle flies.

Note the wings, hairs, and dimples on […]

This bee was making no attempt to visit every single flower on this plant. It just took a random walk around and flew off.

“AAAgh, my back … it’s so itchy!”

This honeybee was on its way into a Hasta flower today.

This bumblebee was on its way out.

The bees climb pretty far into the flower to get what they are after.

Here are some pictures I took of flowers that are starting to come up around town.
Check out these red tulips.

Forscythia.

Moss Pink (phlox).

Yellow tulip.

Another tulip.

Lupines maybe?

The crocuses are coming up — April first was nice and sunny.

Spring is definitely a little early this year.

Here are some of the pictures I took at The Orchid Show at the New York Botannical Garden.

I don’t know the names of any of these orchids. I was too busy snapping pictures to read the little name cards they had in the garden. This one was farly large, about the size of […]

Here are some pictures from the sculpture garden at Pepsico’s world headquarters in Purchase, NY.
I’m not used to flowers coming up so early in the year. Who knew global warming would look so pretty.

This is Arnaldo Pomodoro’s “Triad”, probably my favorite piece in the garden.

Next up is this bumblebee that I caught crawling into flowers.
Mmmm. Pollen.

Then, it turned and flew to another.
Mmmm. Pollenation.