#Ensifera

[sitting-on-me-bum]

fungus infected Carolina leaf-roller by kim fleming Via Flickr: Camptonotus carolinensis infected with ophiocordyceps in its asexual (Hirsutella) phase. Same insect last November.

#entomopathogenic #fungus #carolina leaf-roller #orthoptera #ensifera #tettigoniidea #gryllacrididae #camptonotus #Camptonotus.carolinensis #ophiocordyceps #asexual #hirsutella #beech #flickr #kim fleming #photographer #nature

[rattyexplores]

Plain Mimicking Snout-Nose Katydid.

Pseudorhynchus selonis

28/05/22

#Pseudorhynchus selonis #Plain Mimicking Snout-Nose Katydid #Pseudorhynchus #Orthoptera #katydids #coneheads #Copiphorini #Conocephalinae #Tettigoniidae #Tettigonioidea #Tettigoniidea #Ensifera #insects #insect #insects tw #insectblr #bugs #bugs tw #bugblr #Arthropods #Arthropoda #insecta

[notknickers]

#my son!!! #look at my son #look at him #just look at him #look at him face #so beautiful #so astounding #so beloved #grasshopper #insects #ensifera #tettigonia viridissima

[proton-wobbler]

Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera)

"Their beaks are longer than their bodies"

The genus and species name, ensifera, is derived from the Latin words ensis (sword) and ferre (to carry). The swordbill is the only species in its genus, too! These birds live along the Andes mountains, inhabitting humid montain forests and shrubland. They're a non-migratory species.

The swordbill's amazing bill length is most likely due to it co-evolving alongside a plant known as Passiflora mixta, which has a long, tubular corolla that nearly matches the length of the swordbill. The two overlap almost completely in range, and while other pollinators may exist for the plant, they have not been observed.

Sources:

Image Source: eBird ( Joshua Vandermeulen)

#in memoriam (joke) #Ensifera ensifera #sword-billed hummingbird #swordbill hummingbird #swordbill #trochilidae

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

MS Paint birdies :)

(Copied from references on Google Images, none of the photos belonged to me)

#birds #swordbill hummingbird #european starling #mallard #cygnet #mute swan cygnet #starling #mallard duck #duck #ducks #hummingbird #hummingbirds #sword-billed hummingbird #swordbilled hummingbird #anas platyrhynchos #cygnus olor #sturnus vulgaris #ensifera ensifera #bird #bird art #ms paint

[mordcore]

🔥 = 🔪 (🍴🪚✒️✂️🗡️)

🌪️ = 🐦‍⬛ (🪽🪶)

🌊 = 👁️‍🗨️

🪨 = 💀?

#ensifera path

[wingedjewels]

Sword-billed Hummingbird by Jay Packer Via Flickr: With the longest bill relative to body size of any bird in the world, this insane hummingbird makes the top of the "most wanted" list for most people. It occurs at high elevations above 8,000 feet in the Andes Mountains from Venezuela to Bolivia, where it feeds on deep tubular flowers. Hacienda El Bosque, Colombia

#Animalia #Amniota #Aves #Trochilidae (Hummingbirds) #Sword-billed Hummingbird #Archosauromorpha #Chordata #Vertebrata #Apodiformes #Tetrapoda #Colombia #Reptilia #Diapsida #South America #Animals #Birds #Ensifera ensifera #flickr

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A new variant has been added!

Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) © Henry C. Richter

It hatches from green, long, overall, ridiculous, striking, temperate, tubular, and unmistakable eggs.

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#squawkoverflow #sword-billed hummingbird #ensifera ensifera #birds #henry c. richter

[rondaincorporated]

Hummingbird Species, Part 190

Today’s little flyer is the sword-billed hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera. Introduction The sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) is a remarkable and distinctive bird species found in the high-altitude regions of South America, specifically in the Andes Mountains. This unique hummingbird is renowned for its extraordinary long bill, which sets it apart from all other hummingbird species. In…

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#collectible hummingbird mug #Ensifera ensifera. #hummingbird feeders for outdoors #Hummingbirds #hummingbirds of South America #sword-billed hummingbird

[professionalunprofessional]

The Giant Katydid… what a chonker!

#Phylum: Arthropoda #Class: Insecta #Order: Orthoptera #Suborder: Ensifera #Family: Tettigoniidae #Genus: Stilpnochlora #Stilpnochlora couloniana #giant katydids #katydids #insects

[herpsandbirds]

Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Pichincha, Ecuador

The males of this bird have the greatest bill to body length ratio of any birds (being the only bird with a beak longer than the rest of its body).

photograph by Thomas Lebrun

#swordbill #hummingbird #ensiferatrochilidae #bird #ornithology #animals #nature #south america

[discopaws]

Ensifera Stellata

#my art #hare #fantasy #dagger #sword #star #night

[crevicedwelling]

what are some other bugs you particularly like, besides centipedes? i'm really partial to flies—most people find them to be pests but i think they're really cute.

my favorite inverts are centipedes, amblypygi, predatory Ensifera (the meaner the better, love Gryllacridids & co), cockroaches, and land planarians, very roughly in that order

I'm a big fan of any predatory land gastropods, such as the rosy wolfsnail, rhytidids, or rathouisiids (essentially small predatory leatherleafs) although I've yet to actually encounter any

always a special place in my heart for little, forgotten critters, like jumping bristletails, barklice, webspinners, springtails, pseudoscorpions, zorapterans, schizomids etc.

#crevice #bug opinions

[aimportantdragoncollector]

hola katydid!! Me encantó tu relato sobre los saltamontes (katydid), me despertaron muchas dudas sobre estos insectos, siempre he pensado que grillo, chicharra , saltamontes y chapulín son cosas diferentes, originalmente trataba de contarte sobre los chapulines pero no sabía si decirte si eran grillos o saltamontes.

Buscando resulto que el grillo pertenece al suborden Ensifera, tiene antenas largas, sus colores son opacos, su cuerpo es tosco, sus saltos son torpes y sus alas son cortas.

Los saltamontes y chapulines son del suborden Caelifera, sus colores son brillantes, y son ágiles al volar, también su aparto auditivo está en diferentes partes.

Entonces puedo decirte con seguridad que el chapulín es un saltamontes. Chapulín viene del náhuatl del  chapōlin, de chapā[nia] ‘rebotar’, y ōlli ‘hule’, ‘insecto de que brinca como pelota de hule’ .

el nombre chapulín se usa genéricamente en México y America Central para las siguientes especies:

Todas las de la familia Acrididae, las langostas.

Todas las del suborden Caelifera (al cual pertenece la familia Acrididae), los saltamontes.

Hay bastantes tipos de chapulines si quieres puedes verlos en la página de la Wikipedia: https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapul%C3%ADn

el Sphenarium purpurascens, y el Sphenarium histrio, son chapulines de milpa

Y estos se comen en Mèxico y no es barata, nosotros la conseguimos con facilidad cada semana en los tianguis a 50 pesos por cucharada que son como 2 o 3 dolares, son muy sabrosos, se venden mucho en Oaxaca, chistosamente hay gente en México que no sabe que siquiera el chapulín es comestible.

El chapulín es icónico incluso digo lugar a un personaje popular en nuestro país: el chapulín colorado:

Chapultepec proviene del náhuatl “Chapulli” que significa saltamontes y “Tepe” (tl) cerro, “Cerro del Chapulín”,

Aquí está una escultura, es un glifo mexica que representa a Chapultepec.

El chapulín es considerado una plaga, actualmente son criados para su consumo y en Oaxaca son snacks que se le ponen a los tacos.

Perdón por tanta información y espero no ser aburrida pero cuando mencionaste que en Tailandia era un manjar el saltamontes se me vino a la mente el chapulín !! Y quería contarte todo esto, muchas gracias por su atención!!

Oh WHOA, thank you for all the awesome bugs! You must have spent ages on this.

Google translate for English speakers:

Hi katydid!! I loved your story about grasshoppers (katydid), I had many doubts about these insects, I have always thought that crickets, cicadas, grasshoppers and grasshoppers are different things, I originally tried to tell you about grasshoppers but I didn't know whether to tell you if they were crickets or grasshopper.

Searching turned out that the cricket belongs to the Ensifera suborder, it has long antennae, its colors are opaque, its body is coarse, its jumps are clumsy and its wings are short.

The grasshoppers and grasshoppers are of the Caelifera suborder, their colors are bright, and they are agile when flying, also their auditory apparatus is in different parts.

So I can tell you for sure that the grasshopper is a grasshopper. Chapulín comes from the Nahuatl word chapōlin, from chapā[nia] 'to bounce', and ōlli 'rubber', 'insect that jumps like a rubber ball'.

Me: That's a cute grasshopper! The difference between grasshoppers and crickets is confusing to the average person (including me). Katydids have been called long-horned grasshoppers and bush crickets even though they're actually a different family of insect.

The name grasshopper is used generically in Mexico and Central America for the following species:

All of the family Acrididae, the lobsters. All those of the suborder Caelifera (to which the Acrididae family belongs), the grasshoppers. There are many types of grasshoppers if you want you can see them on the Wikipedia page: https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapul%C3%ADn

the Sphenarium purpurascens, and the Sphenarium histrio, are milpa grasshoppers

And these are eaten in Mexico and it is not cheap, we easily get it every week in the tianguis for 50 pesos per tablespoon, which is about 2 or 3 dollars, they are very tasty, they are sold a lot in Oaxaca, funny, there are people in Mexico who he doesn't know that even grasshoppers are edible.

Me: I've tried eating insects before. They mostly just taste like whatever spices you use.

The grasshopper is iconic I even say place to a popular character in our country: the red grasshopper.

Chapultepec comes from the Nahuatl “Chapulli” meaning grasshopper and “Tepe” (tl) hill, “Chapulín Hill”.

Here is a sculpture, it is a Mexica glyph that represents Chapultepec.

The grasshopper is considered a pest, currently they are raised for consumption and in Oaxaca they are snacks that are added to tacos.

Sorry for so much information and I hope I'm not boring but when you mentioned that grasshoppers were a delicacy in Thailand, grasshoppers came to mind!! And I wanted to tell you all this, thank you very much for your attention!!

Me: Thank you for all the fun insect facts! What a colorful bug at the end.

[eliovidasalvaje]

Colibri pico espada

Ensifera ensifera

también llamado de pico de sable, colibrí pico de sable o picaflor espada, es una especie de colibrí que habita en los Andes (desde Venezuela hasta Bolivia), presentando un pico y una lengua larga como adaptación a su dieta a base del néctar de cierto tipo de flores, como la Passiflora mixta.

Este colibrí presenta el pico de ave más largo del mundo en relación con la longitud total de su cuerpo.

[mordcore]

it's really hard to find anything if you can't read but it seems like numerology as a chifre system really does go back to the ancient greeks and pythogoras but the numbers 1-9 with meanings probably actually comes from english kaballah which surprised me like damn ok

i've been using thoth tarot for years and it's interesting to learn a bit more about what those cards mean in relation to kabalah but i'm not sure i super wanna get into that

i watched an interview on the one academic channel i know about esoteric stuff and apparently it's part of the belief that names have power and you need to be careful and i. yeah my ocd doesnt like that at all.

anyway i had a really fun idea for a number meanings system for my own tarot thing

why not just base it on my synesthesia. the numbers 0-9 all have very distinct colors. i can even come up with those meanings on my own. this might just work!

#ensifera path