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Post by travelerx on Jan 23, 2011 12:26:44 GMT -8
Concord, Northern California, USA Yesterday. Attachments:
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Post by bobw on Jan 23, 2011 14:40:05 GMT -8
Looks like a bunch of pansies to me.
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Post by Chris Grinter on Jan 23, 2011 15:09:38 GMT -8
I think I see a bee down there - Bombus species. You might want to get closer to whatever it was you are photographing...
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Post by travelerx on Jan 23, 2011 18:37:45 GMT -8
no - the blue, furry thing
maybe I should find an entemology forum where they can tell plants from bugs
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Post by Alexander N on Jan 23, 2011 23:52:44 GMT -8
no - the blue, furry thing maybe I should find an entemology forum where they can tell plants from bugs We can only identify what we can see. Very difficult to see that bee to be honest. Identifying a species requires the little details found on the organism itself. Here we can barely see the organism much less identify it. |
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Post by Chris Grinter on Jan 24, 2011 0:34:52 GMT -8
Yes, it is a bee, yet your cropped image is 0% better in helping us identify it. It's a bombus species. Maybe you should find an photography forum where they can help you zoom and focus.
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Post by travelerx on Jan 24, 2011 14:06:09 GMT -8
The yellow and back is plant. Always has been, always will be.
Honestly, it blue, its furry, it flies and it lives in Nor Cal. Its about as unique as anything I have ever seen and no one here can even tell that the yellow and back is a plant when I can draw the veins in the plant.
Don't worry, I am dropping this forum.
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Post by downundermoths on Jan 24, 2011 16:18:20 GMT -8
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Post by modestomoths on Jan 24, 2011 20:00:11 GMT -8
Wait, I can see it!  It appears to be a little blue fairy! Nice photo!!! |
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Post by maliciousinchworm on Jan 25, 2011 9:41:41 GMT -8
Dear friend,
Nice photo!
Please excuse my folks, I have paid the attention this thread deserves. I spoted the creature feeding in the pansies (yes, good done boys, there are some pansies there) but I wasn´t sure of what it was. I downloaded your image and modifyed it with an intelligent software that recreates more accurate images from the hidden data in your original image file. Having done this I got a closer apearance of the specimen we are studying here. I´m afraid I´m not an specialist in this group, but have consulted some friends of mine who are. They told me that this genus needs a revision, as it comprises some species complex, but according to where it was found and with the image you provided their best guess (I have to say that the remastered photograph was sent to seven friends, and they all agreeded with the ID) is that the species we can observe is Pixel photographicus (Lázaro, 2011) also known as Blue Common Pixel. Hope this helps.
With warm regards,
Alejandro A.
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 25, 2011 11:01:44 GMT -8
My favorite butterfly !
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 25, 2011 12:04:06 GMT -8
I can tell you exactly what that is.. lesser spotted blue furry time to get a better camera bee!!!
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Post by saturniidave on Jan 25, 2011 17:27:55 GMT -8
It never ceases to amaze me how some people post a tiny photo of a tiny insect or a really blurred, out of focus one and then get annoyed when we can't identify it.l Sorry but miracles are not our thing!
BTW I am a moderator on a shell website and we get exactly the same thing. An out of focus shot of a very eroded piece of shell and they expect us to come up with a name.
Dave
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Post by wingedwishes on Jan 26, 2011 15:12:08 GMT -8
I've never seen a negative Karma before. Wow. Justified, but wow.
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Post by cicindela on Feb 1, 2011 5:14:04 GMT -8
Obviously Bluis thingedensis, Family Ohmay
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It appears to be a little blue fairy! Nice photo!!!
