these first three where taken on a trip to San Gorgonio up the fish creek trail in june. be patiant this is my first time posting pics.
that is Gorgonio on june tenth 06 about 4 miles up the trail
this is just one of the great views along the way.
when the sun set every thing turned this bright orange for about tweenty minuts.


These next two were from anonther trip to Gorgonio but these were off the Vivian creek trail.
this was taken about 100 yards before high creek camp.
there were hundereds of these lady bug there. does anyone know why that do this.

any way let me know what you think i just started doing the whole photo thing.

Thanks for posting the pictures...no idea about the Ladybugs!

Stuart,

The Ladybird picture looks like it might show the '10-spot' 'Adalia 10 punctata' Ladybird.

They tend to hibernate together in huge numbers under bark etc. Can't tell from the picture whether they were all moving or not?

They are normally active say from March through to October but especially the warmer months, so hiberation might not be the explanation in this case.

ya they were moving so probibly not hibernation. the only thing i could think of is there was some type of food stockpile they were all after. btw, what's a good way to resize pics, these turned out bad

Edited by phatmanforya on 07/18/2006 23:44:06 MDT.

one word---- ORGY

Im with Bob on that one, great pics above it. I've just discovered this section, the Canyonlands one looks amazing