Labuan Bajo & Environs on Nusa Tenggara Island: Insects & Plants
Labuan Bajo - 1a Plants Euphorbia milli Grandiflora in perfect bloom on the grounds of my lodge.
Labuan Bajo - 1b Plants Euphorbia milli - pink variety in bloom on the grounds of my lodge.
Labuan Bajo - 2 Plants Hibiscus species on the grounds of my lodge.
Labuan Bajo - 3 Plants
Labuan Bajo - 1a Insects One of three amazing shots of an extremely large (4cm.) carpenter bee foraging on a sandy beach area outside of town.
Labuan Bajo - 1b Insects
Labuan Bajo - 1c Insects
Labuan Bajo - 2 Insects Another species of carpenter bee.
Labuan Bajo - 3 Insects A member of the Order Hemiptera (true bugs).
Labuan Bajo - 4 Insects Blue butterflies are always stunningly beautiful, whether they are "Morphos" found in Central America and South America or "Blues" found in both North America, Europe and North Africa.
Labuan Bajo - 5 Insects Metallic looking Hemiptera (beetles) species.
Labuan Bajo - 6 Insects
Labuan Bajo - 7 Insects
Labuan Bajo - 8 Insects The next 5 photos all show insects looking for nectar inside the flowers of a local Trilfolium plant. If I had devoted more time to shooting all the insects that choose this plant species, the collection might well fill the pages of a book. Maybe next time!
Labuan Bajo - 9a Insects
Labuan Bajo - 9b
Labuan Bajo - 10 Insects
Labuan Bajo - 11 Insects
Labuan Bajo - 1 Spiders Order Araneae Anthropods - 8 legs. About 43,000 different species world wide. Impossible to ignore them. They have their 'deadly beauty'.
Labuan Bajo & Environs on Nusa Tenggara Island: Insects & Plant