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Spain
Sunset Print (LS.99)
A beautiful Spanish sunset, in case you might like something like this on your wall 🙂
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Dolmen de Menga
This is a rather epic site, I was lucky enough to go there twice while living in Spain. Might as well review and go through some old adventures seen as they don’t seem as possible as they once did. They say this is a neolithic site, so we’re looking at around 5,500 years old (ish).
The stones were huge, inside was impressive.
You feel very small in there.
The ceiling slabs were just massive.
A bit of the pretty outside, a beautiful location.
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MKW Designs – Spanish Sunrise (LS.108)
Spanish sunrise photograph taken in Nerja, AndalucĂa with a Nikon D5500. Available as a framed print and on all other redbubble products.
Even walls need some brightness in these dark times.
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Wasps
I hadn’t realised there were so many different types of wasp until I started taking photos of nature. Not just the variations of your classic yellow and black one, of those there are many. But the more unusual ones I hadn’t realised were part of the wasp family until I looked them up. I will start with the classic one though, and I have a few good shots of these so they may get their own post.
I believe this a Queen wasp. I only noticed it at first in the garden because I could hear a scrapping sound on the fence and saw this large wasp chewing the wood off in small strips! Apparently this is what Queen wasps do to prepare the nest for eggs.
This wonderfully coloured little beauty is a Ruby-tailed wasp, which is a type of cuckoo wasp. If you know what cuckoos are known for then you’ll know why they are named so. Laying eggs in another wasps nest is their thing.
You may think, why would you put an ant, which clearly looks like a spider, in with the wasps? Well, I was surprised to find out this is a wasp! The females are wingless and look like hairy ants as you can see. And to add to the strangeness of these little insects, when you disturb them they squeak.
We didn’t get to see many of these, but was nice to catch a couple of pictures here and there. They are quite big like carpenter bees and just as cool.
I think this is a red paper wasp, and as you can see I didn’t get a great picture and it was only one.
Again, not the greatest picture, but only a small window as this guy did not linger. After much trawling through pictures and species, I think this is a Cicada killer wasp, but it does have lots of similarities to hornets and even some types of bee, so please feel free to correct me if I have got this one (or any of them) wrong.
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Mt Maroma – 28.01.18 #2
It was great to live with a view like this, even if it was just for a short time. Every day the weather threw a different cast of light on it, quite something.
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White spotted rose beetle
This white spotted rose beetle was abundant in Spain, furry little beetles dozily flying around and bumping into things. Plenty of opportunity for photos 🙂
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Mt Maroma – 28.01.18
I loved having this as my view for a year, it never looked the same one day to the next.
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Date Palm
A nice bit of colour on a dreary day.
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Conehead Mantis – large
This was a real treat and I still don’t really know how my husband spotted it.
But there it was, aware of us too and seemingly wanting to start making a getaway.
But i managed to follow him around for a few minutes and see what a strange creature he really, even compared to the other mantises I had seen.
Goes down as one of the most alien creatures I have ever seen.
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