Uploads from Martin LaBar (going on hiatus), tagged yucca

Leptoglossus phyllopus: insect on yucca, enhanced

nobody@flickr.com (Martin LaBar (going on hiatus)) — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:45:00 -0800

Martin LaBar (going on hiatus) posted a photo:

This was walking (not in December) on a neighbor's yucca plant, which was in bloom. There were more of the same kind of insect on the same plant. I assume that it's a Hemipteran (true bug) but don't know anything else. Any help in identification would be appreciated.

Treegrow (see comment below) tells us that this is Leptoglossus phyllopus. One common name is Florida leaf-footed bug. Thanks, Treegrow!

Assassin bug, I believe, on yucca

nobody@flickr.com (Martin LaBar (going on hiatus)) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:36:04 -0700

Martin LaBar (going on hiatus) posted a photo:

OK. This is a requirement. You have to go to the larger size on this photo. This means you!

Sorry to be so aggressive . . .

There's an original size, which is even larger, but I won't scream at you about that one.

One of the next-door neighbors has a yucca plant. I was going to take some photos of the flower, but I found this creature, which, I believe, is an assassin bug, walking along the stem. You can see details, especially the eye and the antenna, at the larger size.

Why are they called assassin bugs? The Wikipedia article on this family says that "They use the long rostrum to inject a lethal saliva that liquefies the insides of the prey, which are then sucked out." Well, that's an ecological niche, too.

I don't believe that this is the same species as the bugs in the photo I uploaded yesterday.

Thanks for going to the larger size!

Yucca flowers against oncoming thunderstorm, NM

nobody@flickr.com (Martin LaBar (going on hiatus)) — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:58:25 -0700

Martin LaBar (going on hiatus) posted a photo:

The third, and last, photo of some yuccas in New Mexico. These plants were about 2 1/2 meters/yards tall, and the flowers were perhaps an inch and a half/0.5 dm across. I think they are even more beautiful at the larger sizes.

Go here for a view of two yucca flower stalks, taken in the same area. Go here for another closeup view of yucca flowers, in the same area, at the same time.

Close up yucca flowers against oncoming thunderstorm, NM

nobody@flickr.com (Martin LaBar (going on hiatus)) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:44:51 -0700

Martin LaBar (going on hiatus) posted a photo:

As the title says, a yucca plant, showing flowers, against an oncoming thunderstorm in the New Mexico sky. I don't know for sure whether this was cultivated or wild, but suspect wild -- there were a lot of others, looking like the same species, in the immediate area.

Any identification help appreciated.

More detail at the larger sizes.

Go here for a view of two yucca flower stalks, taken in the same area. Go here for another closeup of yucca flowers, at the same time, in the same location.

Isn't God a great artist?

Old and new yucca flower stalks against thundercloud, NM

nobody@flickr.com (Martin LaBar (going on hiatus)) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:49:09 -0700

Martin LaBar (going on hiatus) posted a photo:

As the title says, these are old and new flower stalks on yuccas in New Mexico, USA. The top was perhaps 4 meters/yards from the ground. Any identification would be appreciated. Thanks.

Go here for a much closer view of a yucca flowers, taken in the same location, and here for another close view.

Isn't God a great artist?

Looking along Hwy 179 over a yucca

nobody@flickr.com (Martin LaBar (going on hiatus)) — Sun, 14 May 2006 17:44:41 -0700

Martin LaBar (going on hiatus) posted a photo:

Our last shot from the beautiful redrock country, near Sedona, Arizona. This is along Arizona highway 179. Isn't God a great artist!

An
article published in MSN identifies this highway as one of the 10 most scenic drives in the US. We agree.

Better at the larger sizes.

Playing around with a yucca

nobody@flickr.com (Martin LaBar (going on hiatus)) — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:35:03 -0800

Martin LaBar (going on hiatus) posted a photo:

Someone had too much time on their hands, probably a youth waiting on someone to walk to school with. Normally, of course, the leaves stick out at an angle from the stalk, with the sharp ends furthest from it.

We didn't pull them out. Perhaps we should have . . .