Random Picture Thread

[El Whedo]

I have no idea how they coordinated getting in place before biting all at the same time.

It's weird isn't it? Maybe some pheromone communication?

I experienced it back in my college days in east Texas. Felt a tickling sensation on my left leg, and looked down in horror to see it covered in fire ants. They all bit me at the same instant before I could do anything.

 

[davidabcd]

I was driving from California to Oklahoma and pulled over in eastern New Mexico. Crawled into my sleeping bag in the back seat for a nap. Turns out I had parked on a fire ant hill because I woke up with my sleeping bag full of them. I have no idea how they coordinated getting in place before biting all at the same time. We have red ants in California but fire ants are a whole other level of evil

Now that's a horror story. Mine was small potatoes since I had a shower twenty feet away.
Preemptive strike. Vengeful, angry little dudes.

 

[Kee]

It's weird isn't it? Maybe some pheromone communication?

I experienced it back in my college days in east Texas. Felt a tickling sensation on my left leg, and looked down in horror to see it covered in fire ants. They all bit me at the same instant before I could do anything.

I'm currently residing in East Texas and have fire ant bites on both wrists, from two separate incidents.

 

[corkybstewart]

40+ acres of French barley about to be harvested by my brother in law

 

[Dland]

It's weird isn't it? Maybe some pheromone communication?

I experienced it back in my college days in east Texas. Felt a tickling sensation on my left leg, and looked down in horror to see it covered in fire ants. They all bit me at the same instant before I could do anything.

I believe it is pheromone communication. Others in the insect class hymenoptera also do this, that is why if you ever get stung by a wasp , bee or hornet, you've really got to get away from the nest because the first one that stings you "tags" you with a pheromone that says you're an enemy.

 

[MHBT]

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Game boy is definitely not more fun
Nintendo be trippn

 

[Sailingeric]

Before

After

 

[davidabcd]

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I like before and afters. Seeing Detroit at different stages is neat (not a nature thing but it is a "before" and "after") and I find myself looking at images for a long time.

 

[davidabcd]

barley

barley=beer. Nice shot.

 

[davidabcd]

Yeah, Yeah, I know--there's a cat thread. But you can't argue that a cat sunning himself and posting it here isn't random.
Crunch.

 

[Sailingeric]

I like before and afters. Seeing Detroit at different stages is neat (not a nature thing but it is a "before" and "after") and I find myself looking at images for a long time.

Same here...find a familiar building or landmark and seeing how much has changed...or like my small Georgia hometown...things still the same other than the cars are different.

 

[davidabcd]

Same here...find a familiar building or landmark and seeing how much has changed...or like my small Georgia hometown...things still the same other than the cars are different.

Isn't it crazy? Detroit is well-documented so lots of fun looking. Scenes of everybody in suits, hats and the women in dresses from way, way back but there'll be a building that you can drive by today.

 

[Sailingeric]

1950's

And now...from Google maps..the trees are bigger .

 

[davidabcd]

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It's all still there. Totally cool. I tried to bring up some Madison Heights, Mi. photos (where I grew up) just now but couldn't though I have seen them. Well, heck, it's just empty land before it had houses built on it.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[Broken Crow]

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Heck!... Made me do an image search... I thought that was reichenbach falls!

 

[Sailingeric]

Heck!... Made me do an image search... I thought that was reichenbach falls!

It is Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.

 

[Sailingeric]

 

[balrog]

trees are bigger .

Statue is dirtier, too.

 

[GrogNerd]

may have gone just a LITTLE overboard on the "saturation" slider

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Last week in OBX

 

[corkybstewart]

Manual rotisserie

 

[corkybstewart]

Maison, sweet maison

 

[AZCoolerBrewer]

Wild tortoise in the Sonoran desert.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Liquor store parking

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[grampamark]

Parked next to me this afternoon.

 

[grampamark]

 

[Chorgey]

What are you? This little fella is walking around on the back deck

 

[RCope]

"Spotted Lanternfly"