what am I?

[brewmaster15]

Heres something for you to try and figure out. I took a few macro photography pics today out in my yard. I then cropped the photos so you are seeing a natural pattern....First photo with flash... remainder of Photos were taken without flash at a high ISO.

What do you think these photos are of?

-al

[Disgirl]

Layers in a piece of tree bark? Or part of a mushroom?
Barb:)

[Chad Hughes]

It's kind of late in the year for wasps, but is it a section of a wasp hive? One of the pictures looks like there is a bit of the paper "peeling" away from the rest. Other than that, what Barb said. LOL!

[brewmaster15]

Wow,
Chad I am impressed!:) right on the money. Looks like I will have to get creative here if I am going to stump you guys.:D:D:D
I have a bald face hornet nest in the yard that got torn into by a woodpecker..... This was a piece of it.

I found it on the ground below the nest and was really amazed by the pattern...The photos don't do it justice. From a biology point of view that paper is amazingly complex...each row and color represents a different wood source that was harvested, and turned to pulp and used to make paper.... Over the course of the summer I saw the hornets chewing away on my garden fence, wood shed and old pile of pine trees... theres probably 20-30 or more sources they used... yeah I know ..I am weird...but things like that blow me away...so simple a creature and so complex a structure..:)

So anyone else want to post some pics for guessing session?;)


-al

[ifixoldhouses]

Looks like a rock to me.

[Disgirl]

Very good Chad! I knew I had seen such a thing before but couldn't place it. Now I remember, it is in my cousin's living room hanging next to the fireplace! Empty of course.
Barb :)

[Darrell Ward]

Very good Chad! I knew I had seen such a thing before but couldn't place it. Now I remember, it is in my cousin's living room hanging next to the fireplace! Empty of course.
Barb :)

LOL! The son of a friend of mine found an "empty" hornet's nest a few years ago. He brought it home and hung it in his room. A few days later, hornets starting hatching out of the thing, and people running around the house with bees chasing them. Too funny!

[Eddie]

LOL! The son of a friend of mine found an "empty" hornet's nest a few years ago. He brought it home and hung it in his room. A few days later, hornets starting hatching out of the thing, and people running around the house with bees chasing them. Too funny!

LOL, thats crazy Darrell...funny though. :o

Chad, you are pretty good! Dang, I was well stumped..thought it was something man made due to all the layers and particle almost looked like fiberglass or paper.

Eddie

[brewmaster15]

Darrell,

That brings back memories... lol I did that too one winter.:D:D:D:D I did not know that the adults all died in the winter...but the eggs/pupae stay dormant until spring.... It took 2 weeks for the hornets to hatch....:(:(:(

-al

[Chad Hughes]

Very good Chad! I knew I had seen such a thing before but couldn't place it. Now I remember, it is in my cousin's living room hanging next to the fireplace! Empty of course.
Barb :)

Thanks Barb! The last picture gave it away for me. You can see a layer of the "paper" peeling away. That's the only way I knew I had a **** at guessing correctly.


LOL! The son of a friend of mine found an "empty" hornet's nest a few years ago. He brought it home and hung it in his room. A few days later, hornets starting hatching out of the thing, and people running around the house with bees chasing them. Too funny!

YIKES!


LOL, thats crazy Darrell...funny though. :o

Chad, you are pretty good! Dang, I was well stumped..thought it was something man made due to all the layers and particle almost looked like fiberglass or paper.

Eddie

Thanks Eddie, those nests are just like paper. Imagine heavy tissue paper all wrapped around in a ball with little rooms inside. Pretty impressive I must say! These little guys are quite the engineers.


Darrell,

That brings back memories... lol I did that too one winter.:D:D:D:D I did not know that the adults all died in the winter...but the eggs/pupae stay dormant until spring.... It took 2 weeks for the hornets to hatch....:(:(:(

-al

DOUBLE YIKES! Have you ever come across the ones the nest in the ground? When I was about 12 I ran over a nest opening with the lawn mover. By the time I was able to reach the screened in porch at the back of the house, I had been stung 5 times. Thanks god I'm not allergic!

[brewmaster15]

DOUBLE YIKES! Have you ever come across the ones the nest in the ground? When I was about 12 I ran over a nest opening with the lawn mover. By the time I was able to reach the screened in porch at the back of the house, I had been stung 5 times. Thanks god I'm not allergic! yep..yellow jackets here in CT... I've stepped on many nests working in the yard and hiking the state forests...worst was 26 times... and now I AM Allergic..:( swell up like a balloon without benedryl and epipen.:(:(:(:(

al

[Chad Hughes]

yep..yellow jackets here in CT... I've stepped on many nests working in the yard and hiking the state forests...worst was 26 times... and now I AM Allergic..:( swell up like a balloon without benedryl and epipen.:(:(:(:(

al

Oh my god Al! For heavens sake, BE CAREFUL! Those nests are about impossible to see until they are after you in numbers! :mad:

[target]

yep..yellow jackets here in CT... I've stepped on many nests working in the yard and hiking the state forests...worst was 26 times... and now I AM Allergic..:( swell up like a balloon without benedryl and epipen.:(:(:(:(

al

Glad you know to have the antihystamine as well as the epipen.

[Darren's Discus]

Looks like a piece of my mother in laws face !:D



cheers

[Eddie]

Looks like a piece of my mother in laws face !:D



cheers

ROTFLMAO!!!

[Scribbles]

ROTFLMAO!!!

x 2 :D

Chris

[calihawker]

It's kind of late in the year for wasps, but is it a section of a wasp hive? One of the pictures looks like there is a bit of the paper "peeling" away from the rest. Other than that, what Barb said. LOL!


Chad, you're amazing.:D

[calihawker]

Looks like a piece of my mother in laws face !:D



cheers




Thank you! What a great morning.:D:D:D

[Cooldadddyfunk286]

at first I thought it was a timberland shoelace HAHA

[Big Tuck]

When i was a kid my dad had a outfitting business for hunters in the state of Mont.Our base camp was 26 miles into the Bob Marshall wilderness.My job was packing supplies and hunters into camp.My pack string consisted of 16 mules,and a bell mare that ran loose ahead of the string.One day all was going along as normal when that crazy old mare came came charging thru the string with a swarm of hornets all over her.Well,you can imagine what happened next.Mules started bucking and running,it was a real rodeo.I turned them loose cause my saddle horse was doing his best to buck me off allso.It was just luck,when they all ran for camp and not back.For the next 2 days we picked up supplies strung out over a 10 mile stretch of trail.I hate hornets. Tuck

[scottishbloke]

Yeah, I also mowed the grass and got stung a half dozen times...thankfully I'm not allergic to them though, nor to my Chilean Rose tarantula's venom. If you like wasps' nests, we have Potter Wasps here in Georgia USA that build the coolest nests- a little round pot made from clay mud with a very narrow neck and trumpet-like spout; the wasp mom stuffs it full of paralyzed, still-living caterpillars as food, then attaches an egg to a silk line that dangles in mid air above the poor creatures. The egg hatches and the grub drops down to begin its feast :shocked:

Great photos- initially I also thought they were macros of tree bark.

Have fun with the camera

Colin

[rickztahone]

Al, bump? ;-)

[blueluv]

I haven't read all the responses. All 5 pics are the same, it's a wasps or hornets nest.

[brewmaster15]

I haven't read all the responses. All 5 pics are the same, it's a wasps or hornets nest.

Correctamundo:)

[brewmaster15]

okay, lets keep this going...
Whats this?

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/X_20150103_172034_zpsfb6fed79.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/X_20150103_172034_zpsfb6fed79.jpg.html)


al

[Len]

a chocolate? looks similar to the Ferraro Rocher ones I\ve been stuffing in my face all day :)

[blueluv]

Homemade chocolate turtle candy

[brewmaster15]

a chocolate? looks similar to the Ferraro Rocher ones I\ve been stuffing in my face all day :)


Me too... took that pic before I finished box off a minute ago ..LOL Nice guess!

[brewmaster15]

Homemade chocolate turtle candy close!

[brewmaster15]

Okay lets kick it up a notch..

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8410a_zps82588917.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8410a_zps82588917.jpg.html)

[brewmaster15]

what am i?

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8390_zps218c6835.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8390_zps218c6835.jpg.html)

[brewmaster15]

what am i?

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8375a_zps2f267d7d.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8375a_zps2f267d7d.jpg.html)

[brewmaster15]

what am I?

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8365a_zps5abae171.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8365a_zps5abae171.jpg.html)

[brewmaster15]

Okay... enough from me, you guys add some too.

[Second Hand Pat]

what am I?

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8365a_zps5abae171.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8365a_zps5abae171.jpg.html)

Chicken feather :D

[brewmaster15]

Chicken feather :D I'll give 1/2 point for "feather":)

[Second Hand Pat]

I'll give 1/2 point for "feather":)

Hawk?

[brewmaster15]

Hawk? nope

[Second Hand Pat]

OK, one more guess...turkey

[brewmaster15]

OK, one more guess...turkey

wrong bird... right Order and family:)

[Second Hand Pat]

Pheasant

[brewmaster15]

Pheasant

Bingo:)

[Second Hand Pat]

Bingo:)

Whew :D

[brewmaster15]

That was taken with my Pentax 50 mm AF F2.8 macro Pat...manual focus, hand held.;)

[rickztahone]

Hmm, that's tougher. Used filter media?

[rickztahone]

Of course my guess was for the pic on the last page :-/. Didn't realize there was another page already :-)

[brewmaster15]

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8375a_zps2f267d7d.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8375a_zps2f267d7d.jpg.html)





Hmm, that's tougher. Used filter media?

negative:)

[nc0gnet0]

what am i?

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8375a_zps2f267d7d.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8375a_zps2f267d7d.jpg.html)

it just looks like dirt. Looks like a few small fragments of quartz in there........ :)

[nc0gnet0]

Second guess would be freshly ground coffee

[brewmaster15]

Second guess would be freshly ground coffee

DRAT!!!!! Thought for sure I'd stump people at least a bit.Nicely done! JAVA TIME!
al

[brewmaster15]

Still 2 to go

[nc0gnet0]

Okay lets kick it up a notch..

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8410a_zps82588917.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8410a_zps82588917.jpg.html)

These look like some kind of algae wafer type fish or turtle food?

[blueluv]

Okay lets kick it up a notch..

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8410a_zps82588917.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8410a_zps82588917.jpg.html)

Musket Rifle bullets

[blueluv]

These look like some kind of algae wafer type fish or turtle food?

If Rick gets it right , I second guessed myself again. :p

[blueluv]

what am i?

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8390_zps218c6835.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8390_zps218c6835.jpg.html)

Led camera flash

[nc0gnet0]

what am i?

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8390_zps218c6835.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8390_zps218c6835.jpg.html)


Some type of protective cover for a piece of optical equipment perhaps.......

[nc0gnet0]

Led camera flash

Those aren't LED's they are little soft plastic feet

[brewmaster15]

ROTFLMAO!...
ONE OF THE GUESSES is close...ONE IS SO FAR IN LEFT FIELD YOULL NEVER FIND THAT BALL!lol

[nc0gnet0]

ROTFLMAO!...
ONE OF THE GUESSES is close...ONE IS SO FAR IN LEFT FIELD YOULL NEVER FIND THAT BALL!lol


Lol your not even going to tell us which one of us was close?

[nc0gnet0]

Lets see, you have so dam many pets........cat food?

[blueluv]

Those aren't LED's they are little soft plastic feet

It's a little hard to tell from my iPhone :o

[brewmaster15]

Lol your not even going to tell us which one of us was close?

Lol.NOPE.
....but I will give a clue.The one that was close to being right was the most round:)

[nc0gnet0]

a handful of nails

[brewmaster15]

a handful of nails
well that gives new meaning to grasping at straws!lol...

[brewmaster15]

Okay a clue...one of the 2 objects is normally yellow or green.one of the 2 objects might be found in the kitchen,one in the garage or workshop.

[brewmaster15]

If no one gets it tonight..I will give more clues tomorrow.

[nc0gnet0]

well that gives new meaning to grasping at straws!lol...


Your enjoying this way too much......some type of spice

[matt511]

Second picture is some kind of bean or seed?

[brewmaster15]

Second picture is some kind of bean or seed?
Right on track.. Nice Guess! any ideas on what kind?

[Disgirl]

LED flashlight and Lentils?
Barb

[brewmaster15]

LED flashlight and Lentils?
Barb

Ouch! Barb nailed them both in one shot! Nicely done!

[brewmaster15]

The LED flashlight... this ones from LOWES its an amazingly useful one for under $5!

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8390_zps218c6835.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8390_zps218c6835.jpg.html)

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8392_zps1db2d4fa.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8392_zps1db2d4fa.jpg.html)

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/IMGP8389_zps9a7bf626.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/IMGP8389_zps9a7bf626.jpg.html)

[brewmaster15]

The lentils were tricky.. normally I see them as yellow, green, or orange.. I thought these patterned ones looked different.


I'll have to look around today and see what else I can find.

al

[nc0gnet0]

Wow, do I have egg on my face.........the shape of that LED flashlight through me off and the clever masking of the casing.......

[brewmaster15]

Wow, do I have egg on my face.........the shape of that LED flashlight through me off and the clever masking of the casing.......


took quite a few pics to get that effect. The light was on in that pic, but LEDS are directional so they point up and the angle of the pic gets just enough lighting to make it look like something reflecting off it, when its actually being illuminated by the LEDs:D

[Disgirl]

LOL, now if only this was a million dollar question!
Barb:D

[blueluv]

I can't post pictures as I don't have a computer , so lets keep this going. Anyone else want to post a pic , so that we may guess what it is.

[blueluv]

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo12/espiritudentrimi80/Mobile%20Uploads/863E1002-22DD-4362-8C06-38960BAA876D_zps4xmceqdp.jpg (http://s357.photobucket.com/user/espiritudentrimi80/media/Mobile%20Uploads/863E1002-22DD-4362-8C06-38960BAA876D_zps4xmceqdp.jpg.html)
What am I ?

[Altum Nut]

Something that is in desperate need of a paint job.
My first guess was a Dieffenbachia leaf..(house plant)

...Ralph

[blueluv]

Something that is in desperate need of a paint job.
My first guess was a Dieffenbachia leaf..(house plant)

...Ralph

House Plant yes but not dieffenbachia. Very good guess

[Disgirl]

Chinese Evergreen? I have one.
Barb

[blueluv]

Chinese Evergreen? I have one.
Barb
Bingo ! Yes , Chinese evergreen or Aglaonema. That picture is from my chinese evergreen. You're very good at this Barb

[brewmaster15]

Is this in a terrarium? It looks likes hardwater stains on glass? Or is it just dried hardwater on the leaves?

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/leave_chris_zpsf6cfbc00.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/leave_chris_zpsf6cfbc00.jpg.html)


Cool pic Christopher!

al

[blueluv]

Is this in a terrarium? It looks likes hardwater stains on glass? Or is it just dried hardwater on the leaves?

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s623/Snakebyte2/this%20and%20that/leave_chris_zpsf6cfbc00.jpg (http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Snakebyte2/media/this%20and%20that/leave_chris_zpsf6cfbc00.jpg.html)


Cool pic Christopher!

al

Thank you. Good morning Al. It's not in a terrarium, it's in my living room. I used to use purified water to water and mist my plants, which is why I have hard water stains on the leafs. For that reason I switched to distilled water for my houseplants.