What Next Photography & Graphic Arts

A juvenile yellow crowned night heron clambers from one rock to the next in it’s search for prey. The bird has long yellow legs that are in the process of taking a large step between two rocks. The body is brown with white spots and lines. The wings are open and raised for balance. The yellow eyes are focused on the next step.

15 Aug

An Amazing Encounter with a Yellow Crowned Night Heron

Posted by whatnext10 Birds 4 Comments

An Amazing Encounter with a Yellow Crowned Night Heron shares the author’s experience with a juvenile yellow crowned night heron. It then goes on the give some facts about these beautiful birds and their habitat.

Two tortoise shell kittens sit side by side cuddling and watching in front of them. The kitten on the right is a dark tortoise shell while the one on the left is much lighter.

14 Aug

Reasons Why it is Important to Vaccinate for Rabies

Posted by whatnext10 Dogs & Cats, Horses, Veterinary Medicine

Reasons Why It’s Important to Vaccinate for Rabies discusses rabies and the laws surrounding rabies vaccination for pets. It also explains why you should keep your pet’s vaccinations up to date.

An image of a mushroom taken with a fish eye lens. The top of the mushroom is mainly red and has clumps of fuzz that form irregular protrusions all of the top. The tips of the protrusions are often tipped with white, especially around the edges IVS the cap. The underside of the cap is convex, smooth, and a dark tan color. It attaches to a light tan stem with a kink in the middle.

13 Aug

Fungus Can be Beautiful, Too!

Posted by whatnext10 Fungi

Fungus Can Be Beautiful, Too! gives readers a bit of insight into the motivations for this image of a fuzzy, red capped mushroom.

A fuzzy, black and yellow two spotted bumble bee climbs over the top of a round sphere of white flowers while looking for nectar.

12 Aug

A Beautiful Two Spotted Bumble Bee Searches for a Meal

Posted by whatnext10 Bees & Wasps, Insects, Video

A Beautiful Two Spotted Bumble Bee Searches for a Meal is a short video of a bumble bee probing several small flowers on a button bush ball while looking for nectar.

A macro photo of a fuzzy brown caterpillar clutching the narrow tip of a green leaf. Three sets of the caterpillar’s mid body feet can be seen. Each foot is a yellowish color and is spatula shaped. The legs are thick and also yellow. The bottom edge of each narrow foot is pink.

11 Aug

Caterpillars Have Weird, Cool Little Gripping Feet

Posted by whatnext10 Butterflies, Insects

Caterpillars Have Weird, Cool Little Gripping Feet explains explains what motivated the author to take this interesting photograph.

A field of yellow perennial peanut flowers surrounded by grass. The peanut flowers are bright yellow with two petals. One petal is large and relatively flat, while the other is cylindrical and covers the reproductive organs.

10 Aug

Perennial Peanuts Can Make a Beautiful Ground Cover

Posted by whatnext10 Plants and Flowers 2 Comments

Perennial Peanuts Can Make a Beautiful Ground Cover tells the story of how the author spotted and later identified peanut flowers after wondering if peanut plants did flower. It also gives some interesting information about using these nonfruitbearing plants as a ground cover.

A black stink bug doesn’t even try to hide itself amongst the green leaves that it feeds on. The bug is a beetle with a mostly black body. There is one large white spot in the center of the back and some smaller white spots surrounding it. The six legs and the antennas are black and white striped.

10 Aug

Black Stink Bugs Are Beautiful and Harmless Little Beetles

Posted by whatnext10 Insects 2 Comments

Black Stink Bugs are Beautiful and Harmless Little Beetles introduces readers to one of the two types of black stink bugs we have in Florida. This one is a plant eater, but isn’t social, so rarely causes significant damage.Even though it has a wide range not much is known about it’s biology.

An orange tabby cat is curled up in a ball on a pillow taking a nap. Her tail is closest to the camera and curls up over her body and nose.

08 Aug

How Exciting! Today is International Cat Day!

Posted by whatnext10 Dogs & Cats, Events

How Exciting! Today is International Cat Day! reminds us all the celebrate all life, but today to concentrate on our cats. Cats have been companions for man since the days of the ancient Egyptians, who revered them as Gods. So today show a cat a little TLC.

A group of honey bees getting themselves established in a new hive. The bees are coming and going from the hive through a small opening in the blue bottom of the hive. The upper part of the hive is painted white.

07 Aug

Honey Bees Have an Incredibly Complex Social Structure

Posted by whatnext10 Bees & Wasps, Insects, Veterinary Medicine

Honey Bees Have an Incredibly Complex Social Structure discusses some basic information about the social structure of a honey bee hive. Some of the information is quite surprising!

A green leafy vine with red branches is draped neatly over the top of an old, textured wooden fence. The light through the over hanging trees is spattered nicely over the vine and the fence.

07 Aug

A Bright Spring Day with Beautiful Textures and Light

Posted by whatnext10 Plants and Flowers

A Bright Spring Day with Beautiful Textures and Light is a still life nature photo inspired by light coming from above bringing out the colors and textures of a vine hanging over an old wooden fence.