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08-24-2018, 10:13 AM   #13051
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Bokeh backing a bug, actually a green lacewing (which is not a true bug)
If it is not a bug, what is a lacewing? Very nice shot and I love the lens effect on the water droplet to the right.

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If it is not a bug, what is a lacewing? Very nice shot and I love the lens effect on the water droplet to the right.
Entomologists define "true bugs" as members of order Hemiptera (see Wikipedia) which includes cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, and shield bugs. All of the true bugs have sucking or piercing mouthparts that look like a downward or backward pointing straw.

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If it is not a bug, what is a lacewing? Very nice shot and I love the lens effect on the water droplet to the right.
In the formal scientific use of "bug," lacewings are not considered bugs. "Insects" is the entire hexapodous terrestrial arthropod group, while "bug" applies to a particular type of insect. In scientific use "insect" and "bug" are not equivalent, interchangeable names or words that mean exactly the same thing.


Lacewings belong in the insect group called Neuroptera = "nerve wing" insects.
True bugs compose the group called Heteroptera* = "other wing"

*There has been some instability or shuffling here. When I first learned about insects, the "true bugs" were called Hemiptera = "half wing" or "partial wing." Hemiptera is now a higher category that includes Heteroptera and Homoptera (=cicadas, leafhoppers and others)


*Heteroptera include a variety of very interesting insects: leaf bugs, shield bugs, bed bugs, assassin bugs, water scorpions, back swimmers, water striders, and others.

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Wonderful dreamy shot!
Thank you Charlie. I was reading PF, and missed the orange sunlight hitting the group of flowers yesterday evening, but still took the shot anyway.

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Looks like he has taken out some big critters already, don't step too close!
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Looks like he has taken out some big critters already, don't step too close!
I was walking through the yard and didn’t see him. When I finally did notice, my face was about 12” away. Made me jump!
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I was walking through the yard and didn’t see him. When I finally did notice, my face was about 12” away. Made me jump!
Is that a banana spider? Mildly poisonous to humans?
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