Caption - Mothballing

Welcome to Monday Photo Captions!

Enjoy the captions contributed by fellow bloggers and leave yours for the last two photos.

Selected ones will be posted next Monday with links to your blogs.

For those who are keen to know, the bigger insect below is a hornet while the smaller one is a moth.
They were both drinking nectar from the longan flowers harmoniously.
No bloodshed was found at the scene.

Stewart M : My biology teacher told that me a wasp mimic would keep me safe - I have a feeling he got it wrong!

Bananaz : What else can you do beside mothballing?

Bom : Oof! I need to lose weight. So much easier to get to the top when you are small and light.

One : Strangely, the pairing of orange and black dominates the runway these days.

Thank you to all who contributed to the captions.

Send in your captions for the last two images by this week.

All comments are welcomed too.

May you have a joyful week ahead!

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Mellow Yellow Monday
Macro Monday
Creative Exchange
Our World Tuesday
World Bird Wednesday

Caption - Bride and Groom

Welcome to Monday Photo Captions!
It is still 4 hours away from Monday but I am posting early as I would be away the next few days.

Enjoy the captions contributed by fellow bloggers and leave your captions for the last two photos.

Selected ones will be posted next Monday with links to your blogs or websites.

One : Outstanding choreography!

Christine : On your mark, get set, go!

Andrea : Let's go to the shore now, we've got too much sun already! Look at the whites, they are always in the shade! 

Stewart M : While the groom arrives with his friends, the bridal party waits in the background.

Liz : The hunt begins; you take the land, we'll take the water.

Send in your captions for the last two images latest by this week.

All comments are welcomed.

May you have a joyful week ahead!

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Today's Flowers
Mellow Yellow Monday
Macro Monday
Our World Tuesday

Caption - Hide and Seek

Enjoy these Monday Photo Captions and leave your captions for the last two photos.

Selected ones will be posted next Monday with links to your websites.

Cathy & Steve : 10, 9, 8, ...3, 2, 1 ... ready or not, here I come.

Kim, USA : Mom, got to go. My date is here!

b-a-g : Love triangles don't just happen to humans...

Anna : Two heads are better than one.

Tina : Two's a company, three's a crowd.

Bananaz : Worked so hard from Private to stripe one, if I don't get another stripe to Corporal by year end, I wanna join the Bees.

Cathy & Steve :  OMG! Is that a gray hair?

Kay L Davies : Hi there! Do you come here often?

One : Stay away! I want to maintain my reputation as a solitary wasp.

Bananaz : "Mr Wasp", said the Aquatic flower, "when you see your reflection clearly, toss the honey ball into the well and make 3 stinging wishes."

Send in your captions for the last two images latest by this week.

All comments are welcomed too.

Here's wishing you a happy week ahead!

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Macro Monday

Mellow Yellow Monday
Our World Tuesday

Invasion of the Hornets

Did you arrive here to check out a scary post?

This is a Lesser Banded Hornet which has multiplied in quantity over time.

They are about 25mm in length.
This particular one is forming a ball.

I used to see them hovering among plants but now they are everywhere.

Someone must have told them I like critter shots...

...and they passed the message to one another.

It took me quite a while to have 3 of them in focus while a few were hovering around me because I was in their way.

They are on a very serious mission to collect wood to complete their nest.
So, please do not try this at home.

Like bees, they love the nectar.

Their diet consists of other insects and perhaps they are here to get rid of papaya fruit flies so that I get a chance to consume my papayas again.

On hot days, they quench their thirst at my lotus flower pot.
No wonder the water has been depleting quickly.
(Ok. I have heard of evaporation.)

There are many types of hornets.
The Lesser Banded Hornet or Vespa affinis has 2 orange bands covering the first and second segment of its abdomen while the rest of the abdomen is black.
It is true that they have grown in numbers, hence the title as such.
But it is not meant to be a scary post.

I am entering this last photo in Gardening Gone Wild's 'Picture This Photo Contest' with the theme Late Summer Garden.

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Macro Friday