Extremely beautiful pictures Raghu Ji....i am a regular reader of National geographic magazine since 1998. i am sure your clicks are more than just comparable.
can you give me details of your equipment (camera and flash)? Alok On Jun 7, 9:56 am, raghu ananth <[email protected]> wrote: > Squirrel's tail - Hill Justicia, Justicia betonica, a native weed plant of > India > > While Scanning through my wasp photo collection, I soon realized this > particular flowering plant ..Squirrel's tail - Justicia betonica.. (Thanks to > Dr. Neil for the ID help.,) had attracted at least a dozen kind of wasps ( few > bees too). Dreaming of a wasp garden in my home, I collected few young one's > with roots along with few other wasp plants & planted them in my home > ground. > A week later.. I found all of them breathing. Still Alive.... Three weeks > later > .. the squirrel tails had disappeared altogether. > My sightings suggests they are found along the canal & lake edge habitat. > These > plants start emerging just before the South West Monsoon commences and are in > found in abundance in this habitat till the spring ends. > > Chandagal village, Krishnarajanagar, Mysore district. > Weed plant > Habitat: along the canal and lake edges > > Few of my South Indian wasp > pictures,http://picasaweb.google.com/earthsublime/WorldOfWasps > > /* Birds, reptiles, mammals and insects – I have a tremendous liking for all > of > them. These wasp photographs have been taken in their natural habitats mainly > on > the village outskirts and a few in the forests as well. (collection started > from > 2004 onwards). I love these creatures for they are beautiful with true colour > combinations and patterns , beautiful pair of antenna and for the way they > keep > their steps with elegance, graceful pivoting around the flowers, moving its > feelers, flying from one flower to another and feeding on nectar. They have > very > interesting behaviour - choosing the thatched roof for building nests, > collecting clay from nearby waterbodies, Buzzing and flying into home from the > window/open doors, nest building skills (of certain wasps), flying with > larvaes > into nests and sometimes paralysing spiders and dragging into nests, closing > the > entrance of the nest.... Though, there are many stories on wasp attacks among > villagers 9mainly when disturbed), I thank them for allowing me always to > take > few pictures in close proximities. > */ > > Regards > Raghu > Chennai > > DSC_7826.jpg > 200KViewDownload > > WaspPlantSet1.jpg > 136KViewDownload > > WaspPlantSet2.jpg > 170KViewDownload
