Somewhere Else

This is a close-up view of the carnivorous plant that we mentioned yesterday. To a human being it looks decidedly dangerous, with all those threatening spikes. But to an ant it presumably smells or tastes delicious.

As you may have noticed, we put these photos up because we received a comment asking for some close-ups. There was one snag; we didn’t actually take any close-ups. So these “close-up” photos are cropped from pictures of the whole plant. It’s slightly sneaky and not as good as taking a real close-up in the first place, but it works fairly well if you use a high megapix camera and make sure that the photo is properly in focus.