Flying critters, long and skinny, short and fat:
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Four-spotted skimmer, Libellula quadrimaculata. Beautiful stained-glass wings! With 2 black spots on the leading edges of each wing, making 8 spots. Plus 2 at the hinge of the rear wings. So, 10. |
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And here's the June beetle my cat brought me. A 10-lined June beetle, Polyphylla decemlineata. |
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She was in a bad mood, hissing her complaint about the cat, and I let her go without insisting on a clear antenna shot. |
She's a female: the males have huge antennae that they spread out like fans to detect female pheromones.
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Male antenna, collapsed. Photo from 2011. |
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And another bluet. These have 4 black and blue wing spots, one on each. |
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Tres criaturas voladoras, largas y delgadas, o chaparritas y gordas:
- Una libélula de cuatro puntos, Libellula quadrimaculata. En el borde anterior de cada ala hay dos manchas negras, dándonos 8 en total. Y con las dos manchas cerca de la articulación de las alas posterioras, son 10 "puntos". Pero la llaman la quadrimaculata.
- Esta es la escarabajo rayado hembra que me trajo la gata. Una Polyphylla decemlineata, con 10 rayas negras en el dorso, 4 largas, 1 muy corta.
- Estaba de muy mal humor, quejándose del trato de la gata con su siseo, y la dejé irse sin sacar una foto buena de su antena. Es hembra; los machos tienen antenas grandes, que abren en forma de abanico para oler las feromonas de las hembras.
- Una antena de un macho, cerrada. Foto de 2011.
- Y otro caballito del diablo. Estos tienen 4 manchas, azules con negro, una en cada ala.
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