Words in Picture 13 - Broken Wing

 This butterfly could barely balance itself after losing a wing.

It could have just sat there and moan but it went around flapping the remainder of its wings doubly fast instead.

It is probably still thankful with the abundance of cosmos flowers around.

The above is a photo I captured in between 2 trees and below my wooden blind to make a nice frame for my messy looking garden.

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Fill the Frame

This month's theme for Picture This Photo Contest at Gardening Gone Wild is "Fill the Frame".

Since there are so much happenings in the garden, I have easily filled many frames.

The first image is of a dragonfly on my lemon grass; one of my favourite herb.

The cosmos flowers have attracted many butterflies and I wanted to capture as many as possible in a single frame.
Alas, I managed to fill 3 butterflies in one frame but decided that less is more attractive.

There are many lady beetles too.
The above is dotted while the one below comes with stripes.

Capturing 2 lady beetles in one frame is definitely a delight!
I am glad that their family planning is about increasing their population.
They live dangerous lifestyles with booby traps surrounding them.

A lady beetle flew right into the web below but wriggled and escaped.

The spider was visibly upset though.

Back to filling frames for the contest.

Would flowers without critters be better choices?

Your input is much appreciated.

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13.10.11

After putting in much thought, the garden web is the one that really fills the frame...to the brim, in fact.
So, I shall select the spider with the cobweb as my entry for Picture This Photo Contest in Gardening Gone Wild.

Linking up with Macro Friday

White Antenna Wasp Moth

There are several kind of yellow banded wasp moth that look very similar to one another.
The one below is called the White Antenna Wasp Moth or Amata nigriceps.

The moth mimics a wasp which is a more formidable insect.
The mimicry provides them protection from predators that are adverse to wasps and allows them to move freely during the day.

The White Antenna Wasp Moth is obviously named as such due to the white tip on its antenna.

It has yellow and black bands on its abdomen, an orange head and a hairy thorax.

This wasp moth has black wings with translucent yellowish spots.
The hind wings are less than half the span of the fore wings and often go unnoticed.

This is just a moth attempting quite unconvincingly to look like a wasp.
A wasp has an extremely small waist.
This one needs to lose some weight!

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Yellows in the Garden

Here are some of the yellow flowers and yellow insects in the garden.

A little black Praying Mantis preying for food on a yellow Cosmos flower.

Another yellow Sunflower about to bloom.

2 Common Yellow Butterflies mating.
I missed the time they were dating.

Yellow Dill flowers bolting.

Yellow Zinnia flowers

An Eggfly among yellow Cosmos.

A fly on dill flowers.

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