Druid Special: Cold Season Hardy
Gracious sakes alive! We are nearly to the Winter Solstice. In these parts, the Winter Solstice for DY 5 shall be mean and miserable. We shall get nought but dry northers, the worst for everybody. No rain for weeks on end. Cold and windy. Mercy! All misery, right through the Solstice.
Could be worse? Volcano!
Yet consider the vermin that are cold season hardy. Freezing temperatures, drought, unceasing wind, human pollution blowing around does not fret these round-chested insects that we are presently discussing. Give them a banana, they do swell. No banana. OK anyway.
Let's start off with some serious vermin. Here we espy a group of blow flies. Blow flies! They are enjoying banana. The cucumber beetle is a hardy, blow fly companion.
Next we espy another blow fly (Lucilia) and the southern yellowjacket. Yes. The southern yellowjacket may get you year round if you don't watch out.
Here we espy a savage, ruthless yet small fly that may be practically unknown to what's left of the rapidly dwindling scientific community. Yes. But here it sits, eating a member of its own Order. Why can't it live peacefully? Why can't it enjoy a banana like everyone else?
Here's a bug going along on the roof of the porch. It's Menecles incertus a hardy bug that does not even need bananas to survive the wretched environmental conditions current in these parts.
Finally, for a change of pace, one of Crumby's bird shots with the E330 and the 70-300. With the now mostly defunct Olympus dslr system you're lucky to get such a shot.
Golden-Crowned Kinglet documentation.
Not shown are the cold hardy brushfeet butterflies persisting at the CB. Goatweed leafwing, question mark, red admiral. Plus there are more butterflies. Butterflies have plenty of hair. There may be plenty of moths too. Plenty.
Later.
OK. OK. OK. By popular demand, here is a cold hardy moth or muth example. What does Crumby mean by example? Well. The CB has many more cold hardy moths besides this particular moth. This one though (Anicla infecta)was chosed to be an example.
Could be worse? Volcano!
Yet consider the vermin that are cold season hardy. Freezing temperatures, drought, unceasing wind, human pollution blowing around does not fret these round-chested insects that we are presently discussing. Give them a banana, they do swell. No banana. OK anyway.
Let's start off with some serious vermin. Here we espy a group of blow flies. Blow flies! They are enjoying banana. The cucumber beetle is a hardy, blow fly companion. 
Next we espy another blow fly (Lucilia) and the southern yellowjacket. Yes. The southern yellowjacket may get you year round if you don't watch out.
Here we espy a savage, ruthless yet small fly that may be practically unknown to what's left of the rapidly dwindling scientific community. Yes. But here it sits, eating a member of its own Order. Why can't it live peacefully? Why can't it enjoy a banana like everyone else?
Here's a bug going along on the roof of the porch. It's Menecles incertus a hardy bug that does not even need bananas to survive the wretched environmental conditions current in these parts. 
Finally, for a change of pace, one of Crumby's bird shots with the E330 and the 70-300. With the now mostly defunct Olympus dslr system you're lucky to get such a shot. Golden-Crowned Kinglet documentation.
Not shown are the cold hardy brushfeet butterflies persisting at the CB. Goatweed leafwing, question mark, red admiral. Plus there are more butterflies. Butterflies have plenty of hair. There may be plenty of moths too. Plenty.
Later. OK. OK. OK. By popular demand, here is a cold hardy moth or muth example. What does Crumby mean by example? Well. The CB has many more cold hardy moths besides this particular moth. This one though (Anicla infecta)was chosed to be an example.
posted by ray pistrum at Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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