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I noticed a Mosquito emerging from some standing water in my backyard. I have seen mosquito larvae before, but not one emerging. After taking the picture, I drained all of the standing water I could find as there had been reports of the Dengue Fever, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, and the Nile Virus being spread by mosquitos. And I don’t like being bitten by mosquitoes when I go out at night to watch the fireflies.
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A Pineapple growing in my parent’s backyard urban garden. When I worked at the produce department at Publix, the manager told me that I could grow a Pineapple from the tops of the fruit we cut off and would have discarded. It would take a couple of years for the plant to grow big enough to produce the fruit again. Somewhere else I learned that calcium carbide can be used to induce flowering in one year old plants. The calcium carbide reacts with water to produce acetylene gas which is similar (but not the same) as ethylene.
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A Snowy Egret watching a fisherman casting at net along the beach at Fort De Soto Park.
More images from Fort De Soto Park from that day are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
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At first, I thought this Question Mark Butterfly was a dead leaf. Then it started moving along the old deck railing. It is very well disguised or camouflaged as a dead leaf although more so for in the fall, not the spring when most leaves are green. If you look closely, you can see the tiny white question mark on the back wing.
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Noctilucent Clouds viewed from my cabin on the MV Explorer while traveling from Stockholm to Copenhagen while crossing the Baltic Sea. Noctilucent clouds are high-altitude clouds that appear as glowing blue or silver streaks in the night sky, typically visible during summer months at high latitudes (or winter months in the southern hemisphere). They are tiny ice crystals illuminated by the sun below the horizon and only visible from the ground during astronomical twilight.
More images of Noctilucent Clouds are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
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