Sunday, November 28, 2010

[jules' pics] 11/28/2010 02:17:00 AM

Help help help help help. WTF is this beast doing munching on camellias in late November? Heard incredibly low buzzing noise. Dismissed it as not possibly a hornet at this time of year - and anyway the noise was too low. Then appeared possibly the largest Vespa mandarinia japonica ever. BBbbuuuUUUUuuuzZZZZZZzzzz...

That's a proper sized camellia not a puny daisy....

Help!

[Taken with 300mm telephoto from far faaaar away]



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2 comments:

  1. James Annan29/11/10 3:53 am

    300mm on DSLR = 450mm in old money. Not for nothing is it called "giant sparrow bee" in Japanese!

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  2. David B. Benson1/12/10 1:29 am

    Off-topic, but

    Pisarenko & Rodkin
    Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Disaster Analysis
    Springer, 2010.

    Emphasis on earthquakes, but considers other distributions of extreme events as well.

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