Gardening/Greenery/Garden Insects | Wildlife/Animals/Pets

Bumblebees – Agent of Pollination

By on November 16, 2015

You can view here, clearly shows how they inserted their proboscis through the receptacle of the flower.

Bumblebee, considered as the most stinging bees because of their large size. If you hear the word bees, the first thing that comes into your mind in connection with honey and stinging pain but it is useful to humans because of their honey supply.

Being called as an insect pollinator, they are adopted to the flower of their choice. from the 2nd and 4th photos, you can see the bumblebees tuber-like mouth part(tongue or proboscis) to suck up the nectar of their chosen flowers. The nectar is converted within the bee into honey, pollen is mixed with honey or nectar to make bee bread as food of  young bees.

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Cabbage White Butterfly

By on November 9, 2015

Cabbage White Butterfly

I really thought that it was a moth because of its size and pale shade of colors but to distinguish accurately the curious feature of this species is that butterflies has different colorful patterns on their wings that folds vertically side ward. From details of photos below, you can see how they hold their wings vertically while pollinating the flower.

There are many different species in the garden mostly tiny-like creatures usually found in the backyard and others generally found on neglected plants. Flowers here particularly to be damaged because of their presence as they are considered as garden pests too. I don’t have enough time to drive all these insects, nature will soon eliminate them and disappear. Particular attention for butterflies as frequent visitors, they come on the same time to pollinate the flowers, definitely it’s a great asset for the day! 

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Beautiful Tree Sparrow

By on November 6, 2015

There are many species of sparrows worldwide like; house sparrows, rock sparrows to name a few… but this frequent visitor in the garden is a tree sparrow, finally came earlier than expected. A tree sparrow is a small bird, has a brown crown and white neck markings, as shown here the patch of white beneath the chin. You can see large flocks in rural and urban areas feeding on the ground as they usually prefer dry lands.

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Turtle Dove Gallery

By on October 10, 2015

A small and slim dove with a fan-shaped spotted wings.They are very easy to spot as they come to visit regularly and spend much time on the ground. They mixed with other flocks of tree and house sparrows searching for food around preferably, chicken feeds and scraps.

Turtle Dove Gallery (8 Photos)

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Tree Sparrows-Morning Visitors in the Garden

By on October 1, 2015

Tree sparrows are my loyal visitors in the garden, they always make repeated visits even without feeders, I’m not ready install that for now,  I will just wait for them as they are always be welcomed around, our backyard is free anyway, that they come and go! What I want to create is a good artistic style for the close range, I cannot touch them so  do not expect perfection, just a natural looking tree sparrow to show you.

My morning shots for our friendly visitors in the backyard

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Basilica Minore De San Sebastian

By on September 17, 2015

Basilica Minore De San Sebastian or San Sebastian Churcha roman catholic church and the most preserved Gothic architecture of today.The manner of art will reveal most from the earlier date.

Basilica Minore De San Sebastian or San Sebastian Church, Pasaje del Carmen St, Quiapo, Manila, Metro Manila

Today, architectural masterpiece of the old century has been preserved and restored. Other church that was destroyed by fire, earthquake and churches that was ruined in the World war before, remains has been recreated and assembled to a more organized religious structure.

The architectural design had an influence of classical art and and traditional one.The religious art is preserved to be naturalistic in detail. Other improvement with the new style continued to exist side by side with the old original structure.

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Red Eared Slider

By on September 10, 2015

They are semi aquatic turtles with hard shell and limbs compressed with flippers or paddles.You can see the lining of red marks on both side of their ears.

Individual photos will reveal the structure of the hard shell however, got 2 photos of another kind which is completely different from the existing photos here, you’ll see it to my next posts.

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Aquatic Turtle

By on September 8, 2015

This reptile, an aquatic kind of turtle but I don’t have any idea what’s this? I don’t know the exact name. Anyone? Herpetologist out there? The shell is quite rounded in form and they are completely different from the rest of turtles published from the previous posts. External structure of the shell, it resembles black Shiitake Dried Mushroom.It looks like a reptile with backbone resulting from dry spell! Oh sorry Golly!

 

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