Text and photos  Urmas Tartes
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Female house mosquito (Culex pipiens) emerging from pupa 

Can mosquitoes be regarded as friends? My answer is – Yes. A friend is somebody who will never deceive you, whom you can trust. Mosquitoes never deceive. If a ”lean” female mosquito flies around you, you know exactly what she wants. When you see a mosquito with a bulging red abdomen however, you know that for at least week it will not bother you. If a male mosquito with a high-pitched fine whine happens to fly around you, you are uninteresting to him.

Video recorded by  Ame, LK forum
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White-tailed eagle      Merikotkas          Haliaeëtus albicilla

A few minutes earlier female eagle  Anna again arrived with a fish to coax the eaglets out of the nest. She showed nicely how to throw oneself from a branch so that the wind carries you - and left with the fish.

8.35 was departure time for one eaglet. Flying does work when you really want to or when hunger pinches.

Text and photos  Aare Lindt, www.loodusmuuseum.ee
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Clouded magpie moth

Clouded magpie moth     Pargi-tähnikvaksik        Abraxas sylvatus

The clouded magpie occurs in all Estonia and is quite common locally. The moth flies from early June to the end of July in parks, mixed forests and coppices.

In daytime they can be seen sleeping on tree leaves. It is sometimes taken for bird droppings, because of the pattern of spots on the wings.

Video recorded by  Elena, LK forum
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White-tailed eagle     Merikotkas       Haliaeëtus albicilla

After a week nothing is left of the white-tailed eagles’ nest. After the storm the adults fed the eaglets frequently (in a storm fishing is not possible even for eagles) and kept close to the nest (providing support to the eaglets?).