Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


August 9, 2008:Wang Yang and his Curious Eyes

This is Wang Yang

aug 09-0487 wang yang

and his curious eyes. If you "on" your curious eyes and zoom into his eye, you'll see two outstretched arms holding the camera as he took his own photo. Curious Wang Yang indeed. I like it.

aug 09 0430 wang yang

Wang Yang is learning to discover small insects and learn how to ignore naughty ants that bite him (and me but I don't tell). Here is a small white moth resting on a blade of grass that he found

aug 09 0428 white moth

A hover fly from the side

aug 09 0432 hover fly

A hover fly from above

aug 09 0435 hover fly

A tan moth

aug 09 0448 tan moth

A green metallic fly

aug 09 0458 green fly

Another view of the white moth

aug 09 0460 white moth

Then a big big surprise. This acts like a praying mantis - with the prayer arms extended. The tail, though, is curved, like a scorpion. I have never seen this before and for both of us - our curious eyes were a big big success

aug 09 0462 mantis extended

We found this guy so interesting that we took many photos

aug 09 0465 mantis

A better focus

aug 09 0468 mantis

A small grasshopper

aug 09 0467 ghopper

We saw a small white moth - and suddenly she disappeared under the blade of grass. I looked and it appears that a lynx spider was preparing her for dinner

aug 09 0475 lynx dinner

Then we saw an orange skipper

aug 09 0485 orange skipper

Now it is lime juice time at the Margaret Drive food court

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C. Frank Starmer

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