From some other place

Terri’s Sunday Stills: Out of This #World

So much of what I see and find could be out of this world. What do you think?

Here is a quick selection.

Some flowers have another world feel to them like this Lilli Pilli flower.

Reflections on water give the ordinary something else

or give a ghostly image

The insect world always is otherworldly

A hatching Cicada is even stranger that the cicada or shell it leaves behind

Caterpillars are so weird as they munch their way through their short lives. This caterpillar one day will be a beautiful Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly

A tiny Jewel Spider is one of the most amazing looking spiders on my place. It is around 10-15mm

Another jewel, the beauty of the Common Crow Butterfly chrysalis

The amazing structure and colours of Dragonflies lovely to see zooming about but up close they are so different

Of course fungi are the most strange and out of this world plants I could have done a whole post just on fungi. Finger Fungi are the most weird

Truly out of this world

Congratulations, you have just scrolled through the bushboys world post number 5,000!!!

This made me look at my stats which I haven’t for ages. Thank you to the 2,330 people who follow my blog, I didn’t realise there were that many but we know that the number of real bloggers and people is much less.


From 2014 with 4,372 views, 77 likes and 25 comments to 2022 with 74,645 views, 45,687 likes and 19,953 comments

For those who may want to go back in time, here is post number one. I don’t know why the stats for 2012 & 2013 aren’t there maybe there’s a ten year limit on stats??
https://bushboy.blog/2012/03/12/the-start-again/

Some may be disturbed, others fascinated

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Textures
Jez’s Macro Textures #2 and I’m a Fan of #105: Insects
Ragtag Daily Prompt Wednesday: Insect

Little soldier, little insect, you know war it has no heart

Blue-banded Bee cruising through

The Dragonfly

A Cicada with water drops

A very very small Jewel Spider

An Assassin Bug

Just wandered onto my computer screen

OK you know what’s coming

It’s big

It’s hairy

It’s beautiful

But if you have to go on go back up and listen to the song again

Smallest one around here

Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Smallest

I am always showing all those weird and wonderful creatures from around here. Some of the spiders I have posted I must admit have been rather on the large side. So without the usual warning great big space so those who can’t can. This is a Jewel Spider. More after you have sen this wonderful beauty

The above is a Female and is about 12mm long – half inchish The Males grow to a whopping 5mm – quarter inchish.

“You don’t have to worry about this arachnoid, they are harmless. Although many specialists think their toxicity is uncertain, this spider is considered to be too small to cause human illness. They are not very aggressive (they rarely bite) and their venom glands are only normally used to subdue prey (Atkinson 2011). If you are bitten by this spider, you will probably feel temporary reactions like redness, swelling, or itching can sometimes be experienced on the bite area. Overall, these spiders when disturbed, will try to escape by clambering upside-down along their support threads to nearby shelter (Framenau 2014)..” https://www.integratesustainability.com.au/2019/12/12/meet-the-australian-spider-with-a-thing-for-christmas-the-christmas-spider-austracantha-minax/

Hop onto the website – it is a very interesting very small spider