New Mexico - Spring 2025
Eastern Black-tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus ornatus) by cjmyers826
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New Mexico - Spring 2025
Female Ornate Sunbird (Cinnyris ornatus) is a species of bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae that is endemic to Mainland Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Lesser Sunda Islands. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the olive-backed sunbird, now renamed the garden sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis).
The species is sexual dimorphic. The male of the nominate subspecies is olive above, the remiges are black with green edging and the black tail has a white tip. The throat, side of neck, throat and breast are blue-black iridescent. The underparts are yellow. The iris is dark brown, the bill and legs are black. The female lacks the iridescent throat, is greenish-olive above, and has a yellow supercilium. For the male Cinnyris ornatus ornatus subspecies, it differs from the male garden sunbird in having some purple-black gloss on forehead and having paler yellow plumage below.
The ornate sunbird is resident in Myanmar, southern China, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is found in various habitats including mangroves, forest edge, open scrub as well as parks and gardens.
Photo by Nick Dobbs, Penang, Malaysia 10-04-2025
A picture of a spectacled bear
A picture of a spectacled bear
A picture of a spectacled bear
Bullara, WA.
Keep River NP, NT.
Gulf Plains, QLD.
Sendero El Oso en la RP Reinita Cielo Azul.
Reserva Natural de Linhares (Brazil)
Ectomocoris ornatus
Family Reduviidae
Suborder: Heteroptera
Order: Hemiptera
I found this assassin bug in a woodpile. There were plenty of cockroaches around as potential prey and a few small beetles, but very little else.
This individual was winged so is an adult. The wings are often greatly reduced or absent in this genus. This usually occurs in females, but wingless males are also known.
This insect has two pairs of wings. The forewings comprise two parts: a leathery basal part and a membraneous apical half - the "hemelytra". The hindwing are thin and membranous. The dual texture of the forewings leads to the characteristic 'cross' pattern on the back of the insect (see the photos below in the comments section). This characteristic marks this insect as being in the heteropteran suborder of the order Hemiptera.
They move quickly across the forest ground cover and are capable of inflicting a bite if handled. They inject a mixture of neurotoxins and digestive enzymes into their prey before sucking out the liquified contents. Note the formidable stabbing/sucking proboscis which is typical of assassin bugs in the family Reduviidae.
The black and orange warning colours means it could be regarded as part of the Mullerian complex of insects that warn off predators by this colouring.
This is a focus stacked image built from 100 individual shots taken taken with a Sony A7R4 and a Laowa magnifying macro lens on a Wemacro rail. 100 shots were then stacked using Boltnev & Kacher's Focus Stacker software. Post processing with Lightroom and Topaz Sharpen.
By way of comparison, the photos in the comment section below (click on them for details) were taken using an Olympus crop-sensor camera using the Olympus in-camera focus bracketing capability.
The etymology of the word Reduviidae is that the word comes from the Latin reduvia meaning "hangnail" or remnant". this may refer to the lateral flanges on the abdomen of many species in this family.
DSC05479_DSC05581 Assassin Bug mouthparts
Ectomocoris ornatus
Family Reduviidae
Suborder: Heteroptera
Order: Hemiptera
I found this assassin bug in a woodpile. There were plenty of cockroaches around as potential prey and a few small beetles, but very little else.
This individual was winged so is an adult. The wings are often greatly reduced or absent in this genus. This usually occurs in females, but wingless males are also known.
They move quickly across the forest ground cover and are capable of inflicting a bite if handled. They inject a mixture of neurotoxins and digestive enzymes into their prey before sucking out the liquified contents. Note the formidable stabbing/sucking proboscis.
The black and orange warning colours means it could be regarded as part of the Mullerian complex of insects that warn off predators by this colouring.
This is a focus stacked image built from 98 individual shots taken using the in-camera focus bracketing feature of the Olympus micro four-fifths camera. The images were stacked with Boltnev and Kacher's "Focus Stacker" app in a single stacking operation. The Zerene app failed to align all the images and was confused by the change in magnification from one end of the bracket to the other. (It may have been possible to get Zerene to do the stack if the process had been done in several blocks.)
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OM-D E-M5 MkII
P7121989_P7122087
