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Proper winter arrived earlier this week as snow blizzards hit the country.
Winter landscape
So what is an entomologist to do? Sit inside with a cuppa, sorting images and identifying alcohol soaked specimens whilst longing for the summer. I thought so, but then a fellow colleague mentioned Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Birch Catkin Bug, denmark, invertebrate, Kleidocerys resedae, snow, Species, true bug, winter
I’ve been taking macro photos for some years now and was up for a change. Birds! I thought. Not that macro doesn’t pose a challenge for me, I just felt like trying something different (and one of those huge white lenses… yum!).
I just started out this year. Being fascinated by some of the astonishing work shown by inspiring people (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) I thought “Well, just how hard can that be, I mean with one of those fantastic tele lenses and all..” I could hardly wait! I’m a capable biologist, I know where to find birds. I’ve seen tons of interesting motives and species.The amazing mind-baffling images of raptors that I was going to take, were already scrolling through my imagination. So is this going to be a post with all sorts of amazing bird photos? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accipiter nisus, birds, denmark, distance, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, focal length, Photography
I was standing at the roadside, waiting for a friend, when I noticed the ants nurturing a batch of aphids on a stem. We had been walking through a large heathland and got separated on our way back to the car. I reasoned that my friend, being a curious biologist, probably found and stopped by something of interest, and so I had a little time to try and take a few shots of the ants activity. I have never really given ants a go before, so I had no idea which traits are typically used in identification. The idea was to take enough frames to identify them later at home. My first impression though was “Probably one of those red forest ants very clear from childhood memory (ouch).”
Formica sanguinea ants tending to lot of aphids
10 minutes later my friend showed up, I got up from the ground and we left for home. When I arrived home I showed the pictures to people who know stuff about ants. There wasn’t the slightest doubt as they proved my first impression wrong. It was the slavemaking Formica sanguinea. It’s Danish name translates literally to “Blood-red Raptor Ant”. Wow, awesome fierce name, what can it do?! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: ants, denmark, invertebrate, Photography, Species
The gallery at http://www.nbell.dk/2009/ began as part of a competition between 2 friends and myself. We were having a race to see as many species of butterflies and dragonflies as possible during a single season. A by-product of that first season (2008) was a whole lot of photographs of a lot of different species. This spring we decided to try and put some use to all our photographs. We decided we could try and create a identification key for the danish species of butterflies and dragonflies. While the final goal is a polyclave identification key using our photographic material, theres a few big hurdles to pass first.
Note the presence of one crossvein only, in the cubital field of the hindwing. This is characteristic of Cordulia aenea. In Denmark, C. aenea could only be mistaken with species of Somatochlora, which instead have two crossveins.
We want the key to be a tool people can use when they come home with a lot of fritillary sp.’s and darter sp.’s on their Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Butterflies, denmark, Dragonfly