( Chrysocoris stolli) #NGMA2014
I love clicking macros and the Green Jewel Bug is my muse ♡.
While clicking some macros for a competition, I noticed a bug on a leaf without any wings! Got worried that some of my very eager students might just squish it saying "teacher teacher iska photo lo ". So I got it to climb on my finger and brought it home. ( No its not ewwww and no it did not bite me or poop on my hand ! )
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| Wingless buggy |
I took a Ferrero Rocher box and made a few holes around its cover with a hot skewer to keep it in. I made sure i would bring home fresh leaves and flowers from the plant I found it on and every day I would leave it on the plants in my balcony for some sunlight and its daily walk....It kind of became a daily routine.
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| Buggy during his daily balcony walk |
I named it 'buggy'... my buggy baby ♡, and I showed everyone the photographs I clicked of him like a mommy shows of her little baby. ( my awww moments).
The routine went on for a week; go to the NGO, get fresh leaves, clean the box, let buggy out for a bit and then let him rest.
But one Sunday morning when I looked into the box, I found two of them inside !!! I definitely couldn't believe what I was seeing so I opened the box and investigated a bit further to find out that there weren't two of them but buggy had molted! It come out of his own exoskeleton. ( Yes I did not check Wikipedia before for its life cycle).
For me it was a wonderful experience! I just stared at the box in wonder of nature's surprise. The exoskeleton was perfectly intact except for the bit on top through which it came out of... !
For me it was a wonderful experience! I just stared at the box in wonder of nature's surprise. The exoskeleton was perfectly intact except for the bit on top through which it came out of... !
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| Buggy's exoskeleton |
Now buggy had wings... it was time for it to fly the nest.
The next morning I took him to the garden and let the box open for it to fly away... but it didn't. So I had to literally push it out of its temporary Ferrero home and back to where I found it. It took it a while to move about...
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| Buggy leaving his temporary home |
...and when it did it gave me this smile :)
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| ** The smile :) or rather :P |
A few more photos of the Green Jewel Bug
( All photos have been clicked using the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 ) -
( All photos have been clicked using the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 ) -
Balancing a drop of water on its antennae -
Drops of water on its back
Close up! -
Trying to get the bohek effect on its body -
About to fly away -
http://instagram.com/p/fzj9dOAduY/
** FYI -
The 'smile' i have mentioned is an example of Pareidolia. Pareidolia is the phenomenon of recognizing patterns, shapes, and familiar objects in a vague and sometimes random stimulus. It's the result of your brain trying to "make sense" of input that really has no sense to find in it.
Faces are probably the most common form seen as an effect of pareidolia. Facial recognition occurs in a part of the brain known as the fusiform gyrus. Subjects shown unclear, fuzzy pictures and told beforehand that they will see a face show activation in the fusiform gyrus and report seeing a face even where there is none.
It is thought that pareidolia is a side effect of the human brain needing to very quickly recognise certain objects such as human faces or bodies - a form of Bayesian inference where we have more experience with actual objects than random patterns that just look like those objects. For example, the shapes composing a face are more likely to correspond to a face than random patterns, so random patterns that are close to faces are interpreted actually as faces as the brain mistakes them for the real thing. Since humans are highly social and many of our interactions rely on gauging other's moods by tiny hints in their facial expressions very quickly, most people are acutely receptive for such patterns. The emotions people can read from faces can also be exploited this way. Clock faces in shops will be permanently at "ten past ten" because this is a happy face, and never at "twenty past eight" because this is a sad face.
** FYI -
The 'smile' i have mentioned is an example of Pareidolia. Pareidolia is the phenomenon of recognizing patterns, shapes, and familiar objects in a vague and sometimes random stimulus. It's the result of your brain trying to "make sense" of input that really has no sense to find in it.
Faces are probably the most common form seen as an effect of pareidolia. Facial recognition occurs in a part of the brain known as the fusiform gyrus. Subjects shown unclear, fuzzy pictures and told beforehand that they will see a face show activation in the fusiform gyrus and report seeing a face even where there is none.
It is thought that pareidolia is a side effect of the human brain needing to very quickly recognise certain objects such as human faces or bodies - a form of Bayesian inference where we have more experience with actual objects than random patterns that just look like those objects. For example, the shapes composing a face are more likely to correspond to a face than random patterns, so random patterns that are close to faces are interpreted actually as faces as the brain mistakes them for the real thing. Since humans are highly social and many of our interactions rely on gauging other's moods by tiny hints in their facial expressions very quickly, most people are acutely receptive for such patterns. The emotions people can read from faces can also be exploited this way. Clock faces in shops will be permanently at "ten past ten" because this is a happy face, and never at "twenty past eight" because this is a sad face.
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