Nature Post!

[rubyelf]

Finished enough of my class work to take a nice well-deserved break and go walking in the beautiful, breezy sunshine today! It was a lovely day and the wind kept the bugs away, and I did all my class work and I mowed the lawn, so I felt like I could properly enjoy my relaxation time

Comments

[resonant]

The beetles are so irridescent!

[rubyelf]

Japanese beetles are pretty, but they're very destructive. Nothing around here eats them, so they just do as they please.

[ragnarok_08]

The blackberries look so good :)

You look great in the picture with the grapevine *^^*

[rubyelf]

LOL... thanks! I should have tried to swing on it!

[froganon]

I love this nature post!!!
Lots of cool stuff in it.
thanks so much!

[rubyelf]

Thank you for reading! I enjoy walking around and taking pictures to share with my friends.

[moth2fic]

Thank you!

Hornets make paper nests, too, and when they built a nest (about the size of a large footstool)in our garage here they also carefully papered over all the holes in the airbricks leaving just one entrance/exit they could guard easily. Yesterday, one was looking round - not sure if there was an estate agent in attendance but we will have to watch out!!

Our raspberries are just about over in UK though there will be autumn ones in September. Here, the blackberries/brambles are not quite ripe and are a bit wizened through too much sun and too little rain, but the tayberries we planted near one of the water mines are prolific, ripe, and delicious. I made tayberry crumble last night.

[rubyelf]

It's late for our berries to be just getting ripe but it's been cool and wet and everything is confused.

[matheius]

That tree...it's not a fungus, it's the Tree Alien hatching through the tree's chest! RUUUUUUUN (if you're a tree)!!!

Stupid robins! That's a stupid nest too. Officially stupid!

What the woodpecker tree doesn't know is that woodpeckers are naturally anti-antifungal, so their resin is powerless here. What they need to do is drop a branch onto the woodpecker, preferably onto the body because their heads are protected by a magical forcefield that stops their eyes from popping out when they peck at stuff really quickly.

Haha, you know me so well. My first thought as I slowly scrolled the fungus into view was 'That looks like an ass...' :D

[rubyelf]

You must remember that our robins are stupid in different ways than your robins. Still stupid, of course.

I wonder if a woodpecker has ever done that cartoon thing where it pecked off a branch that it was sitting on and fell to its doom. Oh, except the part where they have wings.

That pictures was just for you. If you look closely, it even has a butthole. :)

[matheius]

I like that every time you are reminded of an asshole, you think of me. That's some association I've worked to build up in your mind after all this time. :D

[rubyelf]

Only because I know you share my appreciation. No personality commentary intended.