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02 Jun 2009, 6:14 am

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Of course not! They haven't done anything to me. And it was me basically sitting in THEIR nest for a couple of hours (which was admittedly a risky idea in the first place, and some of the onlookers actually panicked, though of course that didn't keep them from gawking), not the other way around. They'd have had a reason to harm me, not me them. But as long as you keep still while they're crawling all over you, and you don't open your mouth under any circumstances (that one is important since wasp stings in the windpipe are usually deadly), these animals are completely harmless. They don't attack anything larger than other bugs unless they feel threatened.
Besides, killing them would have been something like.. a sacrilege? (Even though I'm not religious.) It would have felt wrong.
I like all kinds of insects. Not to the point of an "aspie special interest", but I also tend to feed ants and watch them for hours.

I suppose your right, I just can't stand wasps, there noise is the only thing that sets of my hypersensitive hearing (I can hear them from very far away), and the buzzing drives me mad. I don't kill any other insects, for what its worth :lol:

I actually had to work inches away from a wasp next before for a week, and suprisingly I wasn't stung and didn't have a panic attack

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Same applies to hornets (those are, by the way, usually even less aggressive - I really don't know why so many people are scared of them). Bees are a lot more dangerous, but since they're considered "useful", nobody is scared of THEM - which of course is perfectly irrational.

No photo's this time, my phone is getting fixed at the moment. I missed some really good pics

I've seen wasps sting people for no reason before, I don't mind bees as they seem fairly harmless, they never fly at you like wasps do. I've only seen one Hornet and I've never ran so fast, they look so...scary :lol:

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02 Jun 2009, 6:48 am

pics weren't working....i posted below

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02 Jun 2009, 7:59 am

you're pics aren't showing

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02 Jun 2009, 11:35 am

ryan93 wrote:

I actually had to work inches away from a wasp next before for a week, and suprisingly I wasn't stung and didn't have a panic attack

I actually like that buzzing noise. I don't like the buzzing sound that flies make, but wasps sound very different. And good.

Here's another photo: A ladybug eating a plant louse. The first time ever I actually witnessed THAT.

I was able to watch the poor plant louse slowly disappearing... And while I was watching, some guy was hitting on me - but that's another story. The least romantic moment EVER, haha - to get rid of him, I claimed to have a boyfriend. Which is a lie but sounded a lot better than "I'm sorry, but a plant louse being eaten is a lot more interesting than you, so no, I'm not interested in a date."

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03 Jun 2009, 6:03 am

I First crossed-processed the original photo of mine. I then added a vignette blur to the regions of the photo outside of the nest area. After adding the vignette blur I selected the font tool, selected the font \'Feel\', and added the caption \'Robin Eggs\' to the top of the image. After typing the caption, I made the letters glow the matching color of the eggs. After adding the glow I created a white border for the photo, and voila, this is what you have.

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03 Jun 2009, 8:16 am

Straight shot, only a touch of curves and cropping on CS3.

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03 Jun 2009, 8:34 am

A water lily.

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03 Jun 2009, 2:05 pm

Canadian goose and her eggs. Her mate was hissing angrily nearby. :lol:

All the ingredients I used to make a wedding cake!

The finished wedding cake!

Mmm, strawberries.

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03 Jun 2009, 11:56 pm

Wow! That's awesome P!

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04 Jun 2009, 2:32 am

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04 Jun 2009, 8:38 am

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05 Jun 2009, 12:11 am

Ok finally I got it right. Here are some examples of different areas I like. Not all though. Pop art, black and white, more pop art (just b/c I really wanted to show it!!), and abstract/nature

PS> If you really like my work/want to see more, go to my site at: http://viveccachatila.deviantart.com