Have you ever wanted to see inside a wasp nest?
There you go.
(For some reason I don't get the fancy resize-link thing everyone else gets, so you can see the entire image in my albums.)
I discovered this beauty as I was working in the yard this weekend. I didn't know it was there as I was working, so I'm lucky I wasn't stung.
Anyway, they built it right up against a window, and I realized that if I moved the window covering aside, I could see inside. Pretty cool, huh?
I don't think they know I'm watching them; to them the window is just like any other wall, so they didn't bother to close it off on the window side. Their vision is shifted toward the UV, and glass blocks most UV light. While a window is transparent to us, it's opaque to them*.
Again, pretty cool.
And I can watch them without actually getting too close. While I'm not afraid of them exactly, I prefer they not get too close. They're stingy.
*My hypothesis, anyway. I have yet to test it.
There you go.
(For some reason I don't get the fancy resize-link thing everyone else gets, so you can see the entire image in my albums.)
I discovered this beauty as I was working in the yard this weekend. I didn't know it was there as I was working, so I'm lucky I wasn't stung.
Anyway, they built it right up against a window, and I realized that if I moved the window covering aside, I could see inside. Pretty cool, huh?
I don't think they know I'm watching them; to them the window is just like any other wall, so they didn't bother to close it off on the window side. Their vision is shifted toward the UV, and glass blocks most UV light. While a window is transparent to us, it's opaque to them*.
Again, pretty cool.
And I can watch them without actually getting too close. While I'm not afraid of them exactly, I prefer they not get too close. They're stingy.
*My hypothesis, anyway. I have yet to test it.
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i actually just watched 2 awesome movies that we dvr-ed off the SciFi channel (me refusing to give in to the new channel name).
Have you seen UltraViolet or Equalibrium? I'm not sure if they were specifically made for the scifi channel or if they were just scifi based and aired on the sci fi channel but both were great. I liked UltraViolet better, but would recommend both. Equilibrium kind of reminded me of Fahrenheit 451, a little bit.
Anyways, the dells are fun in a touristy, campy sort of way.