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10-Nov-2023	TRAVELLER

04 Thankful for Friendship and Collaboration

In October, agricultural officials in California discovered two fruit flies in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, prompting a 69-square-mile quarantine. Now, officials plan to release more than two million sterile male fruit flies into the city in an attempt to eradicate the insects

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If they really want to wipe fruit flies out, they simply need to come to my kitchen!

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Canon Image Challenge		15-Nov-2023 12:48
If it’s that small then there no question about it, it’s a cellar spider. They can move fairly quick if they feel threatened. If I was there she would feel very threatened. I used to have them in my basement, not anymore and I think you can guess the reason. Paul

Canon Image Challenge		15-Nov-2023 11:37
Paul is always educating me! I have thought about this image, or more properly, this subject, and I need to remember that the body of this beast is smaller than an uncooked grain of rice...So she is tiny, frequently moving, in an inaccessible place...I should not expect perfection in any image of her. Traveller

Canon Image Challenge		15-Nov-2023 02:53
I personally enjoy your spider! I’m pretty confident it’s a female cellar spider. Male spiders have swollen/enlarged pedipalps, those small appendages up by the fangs. The males store sperm in the pedipalps which is why they are enlarged and this spider doesn’t appear to have enlarged pedi’s. Paul

Canon Image Challenge		14-Nov-2023 00:42
This became somewhat of an obsession with me...He/she/it made a home under my cabinet, and I wasn't satisfied with my first two grab shot entries...so, I have always argued here and around that if you can shoot it again...more the better, eventually you will get it right and learn in the process. However, this always remained a difficult shot...I got out lights when the flash really wasn't effective for lack of tack sharp focus....with a tripod, I couldn't get any focus at all...so I was proving my own premise wrong, maybe you can't shoot it better! This arachnid has taken over the far corner of my kitchen with my permission....they are creepy when they scamper back away...he-she-it is quite small...at least body wise...after several days of me talking to he/she/it, this was the best I could get. The image is not bad....but 1 second at f13 might have been great....I thought of Paul's smoke and clear boxing him.her...but as much as I dislike spiders...he/she/it seems okay....I even had to move my electric tea kettle so the steam from making a cup of tea would no longer...(panic?) (harm?)...him or her. At present, as much as I dislike spiders, I don't want to kill it...eventually I think I will put him/her/it outside somewhere. I don't know how I will accomplish this, but it is my current thinking and goal on this. I have an idea for something kind of out there...now finally I can think of that project instead of this damned spider. Best Wishes, Traveller

Canon Image Challenge		13-Nov-2023 22:09
We all can be thankful for many of our insects. They also provide good sources of food for many animals in the food chain. Jim

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