Perhaps this is caused by a "leaf miner" of some sort? This term describes many different kinds of insects that feed between the layers of a leaf, creating a blister of sorts, rather than a deposit on the surface.
Interesting! According to http://farrer.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/e-imp.html , this genus is found only in Australia and nearby islands. There is a different group, called "heather", that is widely distributed in North America and I believe elsewhere. Search Google for heather ericaceae (you need both terms ...
Have enyone ladybug with opened wings? Edwin Bont. Posting at http://www.photomacrography1.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3751 . But the images have moved (new web site). See http://www.edwinbont.nl/forums/Macro/liefvliegklein.jpg http://www.edwinbont.nl/forums/Macro/liefvlieg1.jpg See also hidden.forms...
Thanks, Ken. Yeah, I've come to think of global warming in terms of an anthill and a steamroller. It's clear the steamroller's coming, it's unclear how much the ants had to do with the steamroller being there, and in any case it'd be a real bad bet that the ants can do much to stop it. You'd hope th...
I have to say, though, our community has been a collective effort on the part of Danny, Mike, Sue, Ken and myself. Mike provides and ships the Administrator's Appreciation gifts, Danny finances the site and I keep the site running smoothly in spite of our web provider. However, this site would be n...
I'm not quite sure what this critter is, but it was remarkably tame. It stood guard over my campsite all night, and was still there when we left in the morning. http://www.janrik.net/MiscSubj/PMFavLocTieton20060712/CRW_7091.jpg --Rik From the hike described here , with apologies to Ken's fancies. :w...
I noticed today that the forum footer says We have 500 registered users. The newest registered user is Minigal. Minigal, though you haven't posted yet, I'd like to welcome you to this community. I hope you like it as much as we regulars do! Tom Webster , this is the sort of milestone that just begs ...
DaveW, You wrote: "...it would be interesting to find out how many on this site have a microscope and how many just have a camera with either just a "macro" lens or some form of extension? No doubt some have both also." It's hard to tell across the entire membership. But it's easy to tell among the ...
This is a grand looking place Rik, one I could spend some time in. I can't help but think that some of that has been sculpted by glacial flows at one time. Oh, yes! The whole area was covered in deep ice during the last Ice Age, and new moraine was being piled up as late as the early 1900's. Conrad...
This has got to be my favorite spot of the last couple years. Conrad Basin is in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, in the southern Cascade Mountains of Washington State. (See Google map .) It takes me about 12 hours to get there, 2-1/2 of them by car and the rest by foot. By wilderness standards, the hike ...
Well (duh!), it finally occurred to me that I have friends who can ID plants like this off the tops of their heads. So today I asked one. She replied: Cryptantha circumscissa or matted cryptantha sometimes mat cryptantha. Because we had such a long cool and wet spring, this tiny spring annual grew t...