Weaver ants Queen ant

The queen ant of the pala-pala weaver ant species is very very much larger than the rest of the ants in a colony. It may be the only ant with a wing. Here is a photo of a specimen, photographed by my Facebook friend Ella Bernales Jacildo from Pulupandan.



Photograph owned and copyright (2013) by Ella Bernales Jacido. Republished with her expressed permission in this blog.

More photos may be viewed in her weaver ants album.

Dificult to catch Jupiter and its four large moons

It was difficult to avoid shake in the camera even when I propped the camera against a building post at Philcoa.""Light streaks actually helped in verifying existence of the
four moons of Jupiter, large enough to be discovered by Galileo in january 1610: : Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Jupiter is easily found in the southern skies early morning. Do not fail to catch it if you have a superzoom.

According to the link below, a good setting is 1/125s at 80 ISO.

Further reading: http://tool-box.info/blog/archives/1258-Getting-optimal-Jupiter-shots-w-SX50-HS.html

For the most recent views, visit better Jupeter views .

Juvenile yellow vented bulbul

Caught this young yellow vented bulbul up a fig tree with my canon sx50hs camera.

Sunlght and earthglow bathes the moon

One can see outlines of craters on the dark side of the moon! Here are other moon photos for today December 29, 2013.

Hibiscus photos, December 27, 2013

Beautiful plants and flowers on Christmas day of 2013