Welcome to this bilingual (Swedish-English) group blog by family members living on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, "the pond". Our interests range from the scientific to the eclectic, including gourmet food, horses, art and literature, computers, species in nature, history and iron, and photography. Three generations are posting here.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
And life goes on...
Aren't these insects incredible? They are rainbow shield bugs (Calidea dregii, Hemiptera) from Africa, and they live on developing seeds of Jatropha, an Euphorbiaceae (like poinsettia) that is being developed as a biofuel. Apparently the males do a courting dance before they mate and they are the most active during the hottest day, so no siesta for these.
Photo by Ton Rulkens on Flickr. (Thanks for letting us post it!)
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