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09/01/2003 05:46:31 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by tfaust:
Originally posted by kostia:
Scorpions and spiders aren't insects anyway, so no loss! |
I was questioning the same thing, so I checked the dictionary before considering this photo, here's the definition as I read it (and I most certainly could be mis-interpreting):
1. Any of a large group of small invertebrate animals characterized, in the adult state, by division of the body into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of legs and, usually, two pairs of membranous wings: beetles, bees, flies, wasps, mosquitos, etc. are insects.
2. Popularly, any of a group of small animals, usually wingless, including spiders, centipedes, wood lice, ticks, mites, etc.
I thought spiders are arachnids which is the definition of a scorpion?? |
Technically, you're right; spiders are arachnids and not insects. So are scorpions, ticks, and mites. But many people who speak English generalize the term "insect" to include arachnids and other small arthropods, even if it isn't scientifically correct. Feel free to make a photo of a spider. It will probably get at least one "doesn't meet the challenge" comment, but it won't be from me. |
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09/01/2003 06:46:18 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by birgir:
OK, I live in iceland and I have to start looking for some insects to take picture of. In 1. place we don't have so much of insects here in Iceland and in 2. place then most of them are dead at this time at year.
So this is not the best time for people in Iceland to submit in this challenge. |
I wouldn't complain if I were you. For the price of missing out on one challenge I would gladly ship you every bug from Indiana.
In August.
After it rained for 2 months straight at the start of the summer.
With West Nile around every corner.
And millipedes doing the backstroke in my basement.
I'd describe more what it's like, but I have to go drink my daily dose of DEET now. ;)
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09/02/2003 05:48:00 PM · #28 |
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09/02/2003 05:53:28 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by tfaust:
2. Popularly, any of a group of small animals, usually wingless, including spiders, centipedes, wood lice, ticks, mites, etc.
I thought spiders are arachnids which is the definition of a scorpion?? |
Key word there is "popularly." That's an indication that it's a colloquialism, something people just happen to say a lot. It comes down to the difference between a "prescriptive" definition (tells you what's correct, mandating how the language should be used) and a "descriptive" definition (tells you what people actually say, describing the language as it's used, without regard to its precise correctness).
I was being pedantic and precise for the sake of sarcasm when I commented that spiders and scorpions aren't insects. Your dictionary's merely pointing out that people call them insects anyway.
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09/02/2003 05:55:34 PM · #30 |
Fixed link:
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=36171
(Edited to comment that this picture is terrifyingly cool yet gross and I fixed the link so no one misses out.)
Message edited by author 2003-09-02 17:56:59.
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09/02/2003 06:01:26 PM · #31 |
| Wow - I think your description of the picture is right on kostia - I couldn't have said it any better. |
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09/02/2003 06:01:42 PM · #32 |
thanks...no, it's not for the squeamish is it...
I had just downloadfed and printed the directions for inserting a link so just possibly I will get it right one of these times. I thought I wouldn't enter this creature - it might make everybody stop voting or delete me from the site or something. Anne
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09/02/2003 06:03:40 PM · #33 |
| Can you get something just as good and unique for the challenge? |
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09/02/2003 06:19:02 PM · #34 |
What the heck is that thing, anyway? It sort of looks like a cross between a preying mantis and a stick.
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09/02/2003 06:26:02 PM · #35 |
I wish I could - I'll probably settle for pretty.
It is a Giant Walking Stick. I suspect it is related to the mantids.
I went looking - people keep them for pets.
//www.newberg.k12.or.us/ey/html/walkingstick.html
Message edited by author 2003-09-02 18:33:45.
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09/02/2003 06:45:49 PM · #36 |
It has now been raining for the last two days here in NJ. It is supposed to rain all week. The one challenge I really like, and I can't shoot a thing..... :(
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09/02/2003 06:47:44 PM · #37 |
I've seen ones that look like the 3rd one down on that web site (probably only once in my life). Your picture is amazing - the thing has leaves on it! I wonder what the dogs and cats would do with a giant walking stick in the house (Hmm, they might already think that's exactly what I am!) Hard to believe people keep those as pets... :-)
Message edited by author 2003-09-02 18:49:31. |
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09/02/2003 07:04:08 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by TerryGee:
It has now been raining for the last two days here in NJ. It is supposed to rain all week. The one challenge I really like, and I can't shoot a thing..... :( |
Earthworms on the sidewalk? (yes, yes, not really insects, but we've covered that)
Water skimmers in yucky puddles?
There's probably also plenty of insects inside your dry and welcoming home. I found a spider the size of New Jersey in my attic once.
My interest in this challenge is purely academic; I don't think I can stand to get close enough to a bug to actually take a good picture!
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09/02/2003 07:13:14 PM · #39 |
| I am absolutely phobic about almost all insects until I have the camera in my hand then I am foolhardy...I have never figured that out, but it has given me some interesting spiders. |
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09/02/2003 07:19:20 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by kostia:
I found a spider the size of New Jersey in my attic once. |
Wow - big attic kostia :-)
Originally posted by amsmyth:
I am absolutely phobic about almost all insects until I have the camera in my hand then I am foolhardy...I have never figured that out, but it has given me some interesting spiders. |
Same here! I duck and flail my hands going under the lights from the driveway at night; come morning, and I'm out there with a camera right into the thick of em...
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09/03/2003 11:06:42 AM · #41 |
//images.dpchallenge.com/images_portfolio/6624/thumb/36290.jpg[/url]
the directions for the 'insect' challenge do say "get intimate" with an insect
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09/03/2003 11:22:57 AM · #42 |
| I'm having a hard time seeing the image - anywhere it might be bigger? |
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09/03/2003 11:26:22 AM · #43 |
Originally posted by tfaust:
I'm having a hard time seeing the image - anywhere it might be bigger? |
Anne's fixed link:
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=36290
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09/03/2003 11:53:35 AM · #44 |
Thanks Jon,
Nice shot Anne - not something we get to see everyday :-)
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09/03/2003 02:36:20 PM · #45 |
| jab119 - Maybe you can take a picture of your picture of an insect for this challenge??? ;oP |
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09/03/2003 02:37:17 PM · #46 |
Jeah.
Message edited by author 2003-09-03 14:49:47. |
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09/03/2003 04:01:30 PM · #47 |
Here are two of my most recent earlier this summer shots...
Flies
mantis |
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09/03/2003 05:03:06 PM · #48 |
| Nice job capturing the mantis - they are probably my favorite bug (I can't believe I can say I have a favorite!) besides the ladybug of course... |
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09/03/2003 10:16:46 PM · #49 |
Thanks...I must agree with you on the mantis being a favorite. There isn't quite much else which so resembles and alien...
...Zorak, anyone?
Message edited by author 2003-09-04 08:43:14. |
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09/05/2003 07:39:00 PM · #50 |
I took a few shots yesterday of some dragonflys near a pond. Thoes things are damn hard to photograph. I wish I could have gotten a lot clearer shot. I took about 40 photos, and about two of them turned out somewhat clear.
Heres one:
//www.deviantart.com/deviation/2926921/
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