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If you know the what type of dragonfly is in the photo, please add a comment (update: a comment indicates it is not a dragonfly but a Great Spreadwing Archilestes grandis damselfly - I really enjoy getting feedback like this. It appears the most common way to differentiate the two is how the wings are at rest but the Spreadwing is an exception). I had a small preying mantis drop on my head, and then the ground, a month ago in my backyard. But when I got my digital camera I couldn’t find it again. The variety of insects you can see can be amazing, especially if you don’t use poisons and chemicals in your yard.
Photo by John Hunter, creative commons attribution license.
Related: Backyard Wildlife: Sharpshinned Hawk - Backyard Wildlife: Fox - posts on insects
Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera:
The giant cat raced out of cover provided by scrub and bushes to surprise the crocodile, which was swimming nearby. A terrible and bloody struggle ensued. Eventually, onlookers were amazed to see the leopard drag the crocodile from the water as the reptile fought back.
Eventually the big cat was able to sit on top of the reptile and suffocate it. In the past, there have been reports of crocodiles killing leopards, but this is believed to the first time that the reverse scenario has been observed.
Related: Water Buffaloes, Lions and Crocodiles Oh My - Far Eastern Leopard, the Rarest Big Cat - Leaping Tigress - Bornean Clouded Leopard
Photos from my hike in Starved Rock State Park, Illinois in 2006.
Related: Appalachian Trail Photos - Grand Teton National Park - Bull Run Trail, Virginia - Curious Cat Travel Photo posts
Photos from my hike in Forest Glen Preserve, Illinois 2 years ago.
Other photos: Mount Rainier National Park - Mason Neck State Park, Virginia - South Carolina
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Photo from 19 May 2005 by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars.
Related: Mars Rovers Getting Ready for Another Adventure - Mission to Mars - Solar Eruption
The Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve in Ohio is quite a nice short hike. Photos by John Hunter. If anyone knows what the green beetle is, please add a comment.
I visited the preserve last year. Other sites from the trip include: Rocky Gap State Park, Maryland and Coopers Rock State Forest, West Virginia.
More photos: North Cascades National Park Photos - Mason Neck State Park, Virginia - travel photo directory - Olympic National Park - The Cloisters Museum and the Museum of Modern Art
This image is from the Eye of Science web site (which has many great images):
Other species of Geobacter bacteria can eliminate petroleum contamination in polluted water and convert waste organic matter to electricity. Geobacter sp. are anaerobic bacteria (living without oxygen) that use metals to gain energy in the same way that humans use oxygen. Coloured scanning electron micrograph, Magnification: x3,600 and x4,800
Related: Geobacter metallireducens at the microbe wiki - The Art and Science of Imaging - 2006 Nikon Small World Photos - Bacterium Living with High Level Radiation - Art of Science at Princeton (2005) - Get Your Own Science Art
fritz-cam by Fritz the cat:
Related: The Engineer That Made Your Cat a Photographer - Incredible Cat Cam - Mr. Lee CatCam - Leaping Tigress
See many more great photos by fritz at fritz-cam.
More photos from my visit to Rocky Gap State Park, Maryland. Photos by John Hunter. Related: Nature Recreation Declining.
More travel photo essays: Bull Run Trail, Virginia - Mount Rainier National Park - Appalachian Trail, Pennsylvania
Photo by, and of, Astronaut Clay Anderson, Expedition 15 flight engineer. He used a digital camera to expose a photo of his helmet visor during the mission’s third planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA) on the International Space Station (15 August 2007). Also visible in the reflections in the visor are various components of the station and a blue and white portion of Earth. During the 5-hour, 28-minute spacewalk, Anderson and astronaut Rick Mastracchio (out of frame), STS-118 mission specialist, relocated the S-Band Antenna Sub-Assembly from Port 6 (P6) to Port 1 (P1) truss, installed a new transponder on P1 and retrieved the P6 transponder.
NASA provides their content, photos etc. online in an open access spirit. When linking to content (especially images) it is best to provide context (and with the internet the easiest way to do is so is relevant links). You can find many low resolution pictures of the image above around the internet. Trying to find the context around the image is not so easy - it took me quite awhile to do so. I try to provide the context and links. Lately some more sites will link to some original sources but this is still done far to infrequently.
There are also still far too many pointy haired bosses (PHB) making decisions to break the web by killing pages: web pages must live forever. Those PHB’s decisions do reduce the great benefit of linking but it is still worth doing for those cases where web sites are managed by people with the knowledge and ability to manage an internet resource properly.
Photo: NASA - high resolution version
Related: Van Gogh self portrait - Mars Rovers Getting Ready for Another Adventure - NASA Robotics Academy
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Photo of Elbaite with Albite, Na(Li, Al)3Al6(BO)3)3Si6O18(OH)4, at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington DC, by John Hunter.
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Some neat discussion of the engineering behind the RadioPopper P1 is included on the site:
The radiopopper blog has interesting posts and discussion. Via: Engineering for the People - Radio Triggers
Related: Camera Fashion - How Do Wii Game Controllers Work?
Photo of Manganese Oxides - Dendritic crystal growth, MnO2, at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington DC, by John Hunter. Related:Science and Engineering Web Search - Boston Science Museum photos
Photo of diatoms by Randolph Femmer.
Related: 2006 Nikon Small World Photos - Art of Science 2006 - Scanning Electron Microscope Rose Art
Photos from my trip to New York City last year are now online. Photos include: The Cloisters (part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - though located far uptown) art and architecture of medieval Europe, the remodeled Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller Center, Empire State Building and Flatiron Building.
Related: New York City Photo Essays - Paris Travel Photos - Pacific Northwest photos - Curious Cat Travel Photos
This photo shows a fox in my backyard from a few months ago. It liked to rest on that tree stump for a couple days - I have not seen it since. Other wildlife spotted include: possum, raccoon, rabbits, turtle, many birds including hawks and/or falcons, robins, starlings, doves, butterflies, bats, lightning bugs, all sorts of bees, ants, praying mantis, and many more birds. And I see several cats prowl the yard frequently. Maybe I can view CatCam photos of the cats prowls 
I added a Cat category to the blog today: showing all the cat related posts.
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