Happy November 1st! And what a wonderful day with the rain and a cooler temp!
Jeanne found this, a Striped Bark Scorpion (Centruoides vittatus) eating a Question Mark in a tree.
A little closer! The scorpion had eaten off the head. Plus I have not seen one in tree before. So really cool! Thanks Jeanne!
A Loggerhead Shrike’s cache on a Toothache Tree! Yum!
A Hagen’s Sphinx (Ceratomia hageni). Color forms range in color from green to brown.
The horn (tail)!
The Hagen’s Sphinx’s crochets are different lengths in one row. Some caterpillars can have two rows.
I have been calling the six little eyes ocelli. Well that is sorta incorrect I found today. Ocelli are located on dorsal part of the head of certain families of insects. On this larva they should be called lateral ocelli or stemmata. Moreover these stemmata will evolve into compound eyes. Now isn’t that cool!
Wow! Between the scorpion breakfast picture and the intense color and size of the sphinx caterpillar and the impaled frog, today’s nature pics were powerful and stunning. Incredible.
I think that’s a pretty cat. Especially the color. And I disposed of my black utensils a week or so ago. One of my favorite spatulas😄.
Wow! Between the scorpion breakfast picture and the intense color and size of the sphinx caterpillar and the impaled frog, today’s nature pics were powerful and stunning. Incredible.
Wow, really neat to see scorpion in action.