The story does not come to an end when the wheel has unraveled fully. The tip of the fern leaf is now pointing to eternity, a beginning of the future and an end of the past.
This slender rice bug, or Leptocorisa chinensis, has somehow mistakenly thought it is hiding right in the middle of the path to the future, but I rather prefer it is standing at the end of the past.According to Kathleen Phillips, "Americans eat about 20.5 pounds of rice a year, while globally people annually eat about 126 pounds each. Yet a big bite is also taken by insects in the field every year". Both the adults and nymphs of rice bugs feed on endosperm of rice grains at the milking stage.
While cultural measures and biological control agents are used to control the rice bug population, the meadow grasshoppers, spiders and dragonflies prey on them.
And the flow of food chain continues. The same to the story.
Thanks for an interesting post about the food chain and the path to the future.
ReplyDeleteRainnie... like a launching pad for awesome aerial fighting machine!! ~bangchik
ReplyDeleteas long as they save some rice for me, i can live with them, heheh! i love my rice!
ReplyDeletewow! the unravelled fern looks like a bridge from here to there, wherever that maybe.
ReplyDeletelovely shots!
yeah! the food chain flows cintinue..
Wow..Rainfield, this is an interesting post, with beautiful photos..I love rice!
ReplyDeleteVery informative and interesting Rainfield. I love rice so I can put up with mini creatures :D
ReplyDeleteexcellent photo
ReplyDeleteWow, those are beautiful. The symmetry is awesome.
ReplyDeleteThose rice bugs can be found in Sri Lanka too.. in big number.
ReplyDeleteThey have a very characterisitc uinpleasant smell..right?
They destroy quite a lot of crops here too.
BTW, nice close ups!!
Beautiful bugs pictures.
ReplyDelete"Pucuk Paku" or fiddlehead fern tips used to a food for poor/underprivileged.
Now one small bunch cost RM2.00 and consumed by towkey.
George/Bangchik and Kakdah: The path to the future, where everything starts here.
ReplyDeleteSounds very fantastic. lol.
cherie: You better negotiate with them. One for you, and one for me. One for you and one for me....
Salitype: You got it!! We are then in the same requency, at least for this time.
Icy BC: I love rice too. I can't live without it.
Poetic Shutterbug: They are pests to us. We need the help of dragonflies, spiders...... the Nature creates that to control this.
ReplyDeleteWillie: These are my another pieces of experiment works. I continue to experiment.
Sharkbytes: The symmetry is really awesome, if you followed my earlier post.
Kirigalpoththa: Practically I do not know, but researches tell they have a very characterisitc uinpleasant smell.
Tabib: Is it really cost RM2.00 per small bunch? You give me a clue for an extra earning. Hehehe...
Nice shots with informative lines about!
ReplyDeleteNice perspective on the first photo.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the bug ID. Now I know where Uncle Ben gets brown rice from.
Very interesting story! I never knew about these rice bugs before. Your pictures are, of course, great.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a rice bug before. Interesting post. Lovely photos!
ReplyDeleteI like the last photo. Shows a nice little bug atop a curling leaf.
ReplyDeleteHave never seen this kind of bug though.
Excellent photos. Insects can be rather fascinating, and I'm intrigued by your fern species. Different than we have here...
ReplyDeleteSharodindu: The informative lines make me growing more white hairs. Sigh...
ReplyDeleteWiseAcre: Can I ask for reward from your Uncle Ben?
Ratty: The story lets me know more on rice bug as you. Is't it funny?
Tes: This is the first time, same as me. I have my first time on many thing after I pay more attention to the nature. Yes, more to come.
Heather Dugan: I have a few fern species over here, but having problem to identify them.
Very interesting. I vote for more entomological posts like this, Rainfield.
ReplyDeletethat's a food cycle for eveybody...not only for humans but insects and other beings as well.
ReplyDeleteWow.. thanks for sharing this interesting piece of knowledge Rain!
ReplyDeleteAnd great pics as always.