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Tag: macro
Winter insect
This insect puzzled me a great deal when it landed close to my feet in the middle of a snowfield last week. As it turns out it is not an anomaly of nature but a winter crane fly which is supposed to be out in the snow. Who knew?
Macro Monday.
Lilac starburst
I didn’t want to call this lilac because of the lilac flower but then I realised that all names for this hue are actually flower names: lilac, violet, lavender, even mauve. This particular lilac coloured flower is undeservedly called brown knapweed.
Linked to Sunshine’s Macro Monday.
The very busy caterpillar
Good things (?) come in threes: This was supposed to be my third post within a week to feature ermine moths. Except that I mixed up my calendar and the third one will only appear next Sunday. .
Linked to Sunshine’s Monday Macro.
Butterfly – Schmetterling
For Sunshine’s Macro Monday. More macro photography is linked here.
Chinese stachyurus
The Chinese stachyurus is called Japanese stachyurus in Germany, which is wrong because it occurs naturally in China and Taiwan. But I guess it was named at a time when everything further than a couple of hundred kilometres was considered far, and everything in Asia lumped together as exotic.
Linked to Sunshine’s Macro Monday.
Sempervivum
Another macro shot linked to Sunshine’s Macro Monday.
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