Insects............my journey into their world goes on
Nature has got abundant of treasures in it including non-living as well as living matter. The countless tiny insects are my real passion. I love to watch their habitats and activities. It is amazing to see that the colours of most of these insects are similar to their habitats which make them live their life protected from predators. I have observed and clicked many insects in their habitats out of which I am sharing a few with all of you.
Whenever I am outdoors, I am very busy searching, watching and clicking these tiny creatures and everytime I come up with something amazing. May it be on ground, along the rocks, bushes, leaves, branches...................everywhere there are few insects busy in their daily activities. It is amazing to see these hanging to leaves or climbing up high tree trunks with their primitive, tiny and delicate legs. The wings are too delicate but still these manage their lives so conveniently....atleast apparently, who knows their internal minds and pains?
Have a look at the above picture, a tiny insect is stcking to the underside of a green leaf. Yes, this green leaf is its home where it lives. For us this leaf may be a very small thing, but for this creature...it is his world, significant world where it has to perform its daily activities. I am not aware of its name or its feeding habits but I guess it obtains its food from the leaf itself.You can notice the small brown spots on the underside of leaf surface which might be the spots of its eaten up material. And watch out, how it keeps stciking comfortably to the undersurface challenging the big laws of gravity with sticking secretion coming out of its body.
And another interseting example is shown in the picture pasted below. A winged insect is hanging down so strongly and comfortably from the branch of a bush. Being hanging there it is busy enjoying its life unaware of the fact that it may soon become prey to some other living flying vertebrate. The threads with which it is hanging are not suspended by some human but are again being manufactured in its own in built natural factory....these are the secretions from its own body...........
On one hand humans are busy making new technologies after studying various fauna and laws of nature, while on the other hand these self made scientific living ventures have nothing to with human endeavours. Humans are utilizing science and technology for good as well as bad but the tiny insects are using their in-built technologies for their welfare and existence only.
Here comes another winged insect. Just concentrate on its legs and notice the numerous hair like structures on it. This is sticking to the rough wall and I suppose these hair like structures are helping it stick and walk on to the straight wall. If you concentrate the eyes once again and notice the shape of its body,its exactly like the petal of a flower with yellow lining. Just imagine a flower with petals of this colour, the intelligent creature is going to blend with that while sucking nectar. Here again the golden yellow colour on lining of wings and legs is going to blend with colour of pollens.
It had not been an easy task to click all these pictures but without the pics, the words wouldn't have been sufficient to explain such wonderful marvellous phenomena of nature...........................
I am ending my article here but my journey into the world of insects continues and I will keep coming up with new stories and pics to share.........................
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