I tell you the answer right in the beginning: Snail, unless I find a Snake before this post goes online 😉
Another week has gone by and we are in the next round of the #AlphabetHunt Challenge, hosted by the great artist Barbara 
This week we are hunting the Letter "S": AlphabetHunt letter S- and who are the winners of the lucky draw for the R week.
Wild Strawberry
This little Strawberry has quite a few names and tastes so much better than its big sibling from the garden. The Fragaria vesca is also known as Wild Strawberry, Woodland Strawberry or Alpine Strawberry. In German we call it Erdbeere or Walderdbeere.
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Stictoleptura rubra
Stictoleptura rubra is better known as the Red-brown Longhorn Beetle (German: Roter Halsbock or Gemeiner Bockkäfer).
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These beetles can reach a length of about 0.39–0.79 inch and you can find them between June and September on meadows near forests and on forest clearings.
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Stictoleptura rubra, the Red-brown Longhorn Beetle - Wikipedia |
Snail
I have always thought slugs and snails would be the same, but now I know there's a difference: the slugs don't have a mobile home 😉 Slugs are called "Nacktschnecke in German, what makes sense in my eyes, because it means "naked snail".
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Who thinks that Snails can only be found on the ground or on more flat surfaces is wrong, because you can find them everywhere. I do even think they love to climb on flowers.
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Scorpionfly
The Mecoptera insects belong to the superorder Endopterygota and are sometimes called Scorpionflies after the Panorpidae, the largest family of the Endopterygota.
(German: Schnabelfliege / Skorpionsfliege)
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The male Panorpidae have enlarged genitals that look similar to the stingers of scorpions. The ones on my photos are female Scorpionflies.
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Small Skipper
When we were hunting the L I have shared photos of the Large Skipper. Today I have the Small Skipper for you.
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In case you don't remember the Large Skipper, here's one more photo of this furry butterfly.
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Shield Bug
Although the other Shield bugs look interesting too, I somehow like these bugs with the black stripes on red most. They are called Graphosoma Italicum or Striped Bug or Italian Stripe Bug.
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This Shield bug, which is called Dolycoris baccarum or Sloe Bug (German: Beerenwanze), has found a nice lookout point on top of a Verbascum or Mullein flower (German: Königskerze / Kings Candle).
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Shieldbug Graphosoma Italicum - Wikipedia |
Another week of letter hunting has gone by and soon we all will be sweating in the cold because of searching the X and the Z's.
Information
I don't add information about the photos when I post for the #AlphabetHunt, because it's all about the words, but all photos were shot with the Canon EOS R and the SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM lens, apart from the ripe Strawberry, which I have shot quite some years ago with the Olympus E-510 and also a Sigma 105mm macro lens. I leave all EXIF and IPTC information stored in the pictures. |
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Photos and Text: Johann Piber | All rights reserved - do not use without my permission
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2020-09-17
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