Category: insect photography
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T-Shirts With Beautiful Designs!
Promoting Other Artists’ Work (and my own) Click on lower case “t-shirts” below to see the wearable art! t-shirts Can’t see my t-shirts? Try this: https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/shop/tshirts
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Free: Three versions of bumblebee at white vetch flowers
I am loving giving some of my photos away on Pexels.com, with the understanding that those who are inspired to do so will make a contribution to this extremely dedicated photographer, photo editor, videographer, etc. Here are three versions of a photograph of a tricolored (Hunt’s?) bumblebee hovering by white vetch flowers. (Vetches are in […]
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Bee healthy!
Honeybees, hive killers, and vaccines Without pollinators, we might not have food. With pollinators come food and beauty. Beauty like this — https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/featured/the-blue-knighthood-of-bees-jim-wilce.html or this freebie for y’all At a time when disease is wiping out whole insect colonies, a new vaccine shows promise in fighting the bacteria that have been destroying honeybee colonies. Here […]
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Launching My Photography Business With This Post! Birds, Bees, And Their Habitat in Claremont, CA
For the very first time, I am making it simple for people to buy my photographs. Read more to see what photos are for sale, how to buy them, etc.! Claremont California occupies a special place in my heart, not only because loved ones live there but because many of my formative years were th […]
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Dragonflies mating mid-air
One of my favorite places in Flagstaff is Frances Short Pond. It is a hotspot for members of the Order Odonata— dragonflies and damselflies like the one below, which is, I believe, a “bluet.” But now the show I promised—a shaky video of two orange dragonflies and their mid-air mating dance. The still photos on […]
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Hitchhiker butterfly
The other day, I came in from a photographic moment down on my knees in the front yard. This put my legs in direct contact with a pile of dead plant matter. So I should have seen this coming— a hitchhiker apparently crawled onto my blue jeans. So it was not until I came inside […]
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Unidentified insect: Beetle?
I’m posting this on Reddit ( /r/whatsthisbug). For you who once saw me post HERE rather regularly, I apologize for my long absence and offer this strikingly beautiful insect (a beetle?). I was seeing this orange-winged insect (probably a beetle) this spring, then suddenly it reappeared today in the Rio de Flag, Cheshire neighborhood, Flagstaff, […]
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Monarch Discovery
Google Doodles— the graphics atop Google’s splash page that change every day—are sometimes worth taking the time to consider. Such was the case with the 9 January 2016 Google Doodle. The Doodle acknowledges the “41st Anniversary of the Discovery of the Mountain of the Butterflies” The mountain in Mexico where the monarchs “overwinter” is the […]
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Madison Dragonflies Mating
I intend these photos as a “study”— an exercise producing a series of sketches, but in this case photographic sketches. Most of my photos reflect a great gift of tolerance, if not quite trust, on the part of the photographic object. I came across these conjoined dragonflies in the corn fields that make up one […]