A Little Sunday Afternoon Stroll, With The Camera Of Course
June 10th, 2007 by Kelley
I have been making a concentrated effort to get to know my new macro lens and was able to go out for a hike after getting done with work a little early today.
The first picture is of an oak timberworm, which is a straight-snouted weevil (Brentidae). Entomologists are kind of a goofy breed and those that work with weevils often roll with the saying, “I fear no weevil”. Clever, I know.
And another weevil, a broad-nosed weevil (Entiminae)…
Its a good time for chasing odonates…
Someone looks a little grumpy…
A skipper…
An Oecophorid moth (Mathildana newmanella)
A white admiral
And lastly, a scorpionfly. Scorpionflies belong to the order Mecoptera, and are an important group of insects because molecular evidence has shown that the flies (Diptera), butterflies (Lepidoptera) and caddisflies (Tricoptera) all evolved from mecopteran ancestors. Recent DNA work (Whiting, MF. 2002) suggests that fleas are actually a paraphyletic sister group to the mecopterans. In other words, fleas are highly specialized mecopterans.
