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South Africa
Title: Inviting SummerSony Cybershot DSC H9
Inviting Summer (62)
Miss_Piggy Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 838 W: 0 N: 967] (2991)
Scadoxus puniceus close-up
Scadoxus puniceus close-up
Miss_Piggy Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 838 W: 0 N: 967] (2991) [2008-08-25 17:01:44]
A close-up of this beautiful wildflower, displaying the arrangement of different colours of the anthers. No wonder one of its common names is "Paintbrush lily". It surely looks as if a paintbrush was dipped into a few cans of multicoloured paint. I am sure it must be a feast for any insect, like this bee to gorge itself on the pollen and nectar contained inside the flower. At the time I took these photos there where no less than 4 different insects, including plenty of honeybees, enjoying what the flower had to offer to them.
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South Africa
Title: Hose-nose Cycad weevilSony Cybershot DSC H9
Hose-nose Cycad weevil (152) *
Miss_Piggy Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 838 W: 0 N: 967] (2991)
Male weevils
Male weevils
Miss_Piggy Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 838 W: 0 N: 967] (2991) [2008-03-02 08:39:04]
These are two male weevils of the same species. I placed them together on the verandah, one upside down (the one at the top) and one the right way up (the one at the bottom) to show the differences. Note the complete absence of a snout or rostrum.
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