Creepy Creatures

APAD 156: Yellow creepy, crawly

Posted by The Insider on Sep 12, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, creepy creatures, Mellow Yellow Monday, rural | 2 comments

Here’s a new visitor in my garden:

Hello, there, visitor!

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APAD 146: Hello there, bug!

Posted by The Insider on Aug 29, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life, creepy creatures, Mellow Yellow Monday, sights | 3 comments

But what are you exactly?

Is that a suction cup on you, dear bug?

It’s amazing what kind of insects you encounter when you are outside Phnom Penh.
I was invited by Aziza’s Place to join in their field trip in Sre Ampil, in Kandal, less than an hour away from Phnom Penh. We went to this small but beautiful farm for a day of fun, fishing, crabbing, and simply just exploring the green fields. It is there when we were exploring when this tiny gold bug flew in front of me and got caught by my husband.

I don’t exactly like bugs but this one was different so I took a photo of it. How can you not like this beauty? It is so tiny, like a teardrop with a suction cup-like shell. It looks like a hard hat but it feels like a baby’s fingernail. It didn’t take long before it opened its shell – in the centre – and flew away. Amazing. That’s the first time I have seen anything like that. Google tells me it’s called a Golden Tortoise beetle.

APAD 139: Hello there, bug-sitor!

Posted by The Insider on Aug 16, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life, creepy creatures, Phnom Penh, sights, That's My World | 5 comments

Shiny, metallic blue-green… What kind of bug are you?

Every morning each day we have visitors in our veranda garden, like this bug, above. We always look forward to having our coffee there because we are excited about the kind of visitors that turn up from time to time in our garden.

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APAD 096: Battle of the Bugs

Posted by The Insider on Jun 15, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Cambodia, Cambodia life, creepy creatures, home gardening, Wordful Wednesday, Wordless Wednesday | 1 comment

Uh-oh, looks like the fly is done for. Poor thing. It is indeed the survival of the fittest out there…

Looking at this again and again gives me the willies… I certainly wouldn’t want to be caught in the middle of that!

Took this photo long ago when my point-and-shoot digi-cam was brand new. I tried the macro-shot feature and could not believe how it turned out – an incredible extreme close up of bugs slugging it out. I love the depth of field here. I was just there, at the right place and at the right time, lucky me.(Poor fly though.) My husband said this would be an excellent and useful picture for teaching food chain.

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APAD 085: Eyesore

Posted by The Insider on Jun 4, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, creepy creatures, Photo Hunt, sights | 4 comments

Intermittent rains caused this open sewer to overflow to the main road. Not a pleasant sight, the water is brown and dirty – just look at the flotsam and jetsam there – and the stench is overpowering.

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