love number 2!!
The top ones look very much like the larvae of the second ones. Cinnabar(sp?) moths.
The top ones look very much like the larvae of the Cinnabar(sp?) moths.
I'm pretty sure the moths are 6-spot burnet moths ...
Very nice pictures.
CaterpillarThere is no need to get personal.. ;D
Blood-sucker
Creepy-crawly
Critter
:o Ummm - shutter speed?? Amazing!
:o Ummm - shutter speed?? Amazing!
Nice and sharp insects, a bit more playing with looking at the background and it will be really good. Have you tried the loop of greaseproof paper over the flash yet?
Mr. Goldblum, I presume?
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_7IQbcug0_gs/TcbUOWl-OrI/AAAAAAAAAYc/jqfJwBK14r4/s640/IMG_0753.JPG)
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Impressively squeee...
Impressively squeee...
The secret is to find a really big butterfly... ;)
A Pider eyeballing me!I like that a lot. The way it is looking at you.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5309/5666441930_4576b3d127.jpg)
Bug with the phone yesterday.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5266/5700408639_211f3b05a1.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5700408639/)
Templeton bug (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5700408639/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
I keep trying to get a bee in flight but am finding it nigh on impossible :(
I keep trying to get a bee in flight but am finding it nigh on impossible :(
Bees are a bugger. That's why I prefer ladybirds. :)
There is a bug here somewhere, but I was really taking a photo of the flower, but I don't think there's a flowers thread.
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IMG_4267 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/5906087165/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Some copulating crickets..
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Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5944395718/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6012/5984480705_6a618fb028.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5984480705/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5984480705/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6124/5985045076_d54fc4454c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5985045076/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5985045076/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
Taken with the Sigma 17-70 2.8-4 macro lens.
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Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5984480705/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
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Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5985045076/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
Taken with the Sigma 17-70 2.8-4 macro lens.
Not locally. S Africa??
Not a photo for artistic merit, but a 'What the hell is it?' shot:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/wobblyjohn/spider.jpg)
Included matchbox for scale. The spider was absolutely flat against the wall.
??? ??? ???
It's a harvestman - more specifically, Dicranopalpus ramosus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicranopalpus_ramosus). A non-indigenous species, it was first spotted in the UK in 1957.
Great dragonfly photos. Dragonflies are always good.
Red, that first one looks massive!
Norteamericano bugs OK?
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IMG_5063 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6170020123/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Anyone know moths?Shmaybe a Marbled Beauty? http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=55
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IMG_4474 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6064790411/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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IMG_4993 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6159153934/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6119/6284577484_da2c0489b7.jpg)
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IMG_0763 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923788656/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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IMG_0763 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923788656/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Is that an LED or fluorescent light source? It appears to be strobing.
Lovely image Salvatorers. You're taking some cracking images of late.
Good camera? Must be.
Is that a female stag beetle? Apart from the looks, it's the only sort of big black beetle I can think of that would pose so patiently!You could well be right. There was no chance of motion blur. There were lots of them about (in the New Forest) and I may have unknowingly trodden on one or two, but I did flip one over which I had spotted on its back with its legs in the air.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8471/8079719270_7d3e0114cb_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/8079719270/)
A rather poorly looking bee. Mrs P tried to revive it with honey, but it didn't seem interested. It looked like something had laid some eggs on its back under its wings. Any ideas?
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IMG_0785 (https://flic.kr/p/n28ofg) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
ETA - a quick look at images on the interwebs indicates they may be mites.
What's this?
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IMG_3900 (https://flic.kr/p/oYdCZ1) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
What's this?
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IMG_3900 (https://flic.kr/p/oYdCZ1) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Was this found in the uk?
It's a violet carpenter bee, these are rare to find in the uk!
What's this?
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IMG_3900 (https://flic.kr/p/oYdCZ1) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Was this found in the uk?
It's a violet carpenter bee, these are rare to find in the uk!
Nah, it was SE France, but thanks for the ID :)
What's this?
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IMG_3900 (https://flic.kr/p/oYdCZ1) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Was this found in the uk?
It's a violet carpenter bee, these are rare to find in the uk!
Nah, it was SE France, but thanks for the ID :)
Good find though, they're pretty big aren't they!
I got a bit excited then, I thought the invasion had started and they were going to be all over the country.
Should've known it wasn't England, it looks sunny on the photos ;D
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Great photo Salvatore. Would be interesting in seeing details of your DIY flash diffuser:-)
A male Beautiful Demoiselle this morning. It kept flying off, but nearly always flew back to the same place and adopted the same pose. Which was nice, if you were trying to photograph him.
...
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Ladybird with a borked wing.
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IMG_5978_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2j2Yqy4) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
I am raising the gin pennant. WHERE IS MY GIN?
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Very nice. I do like a shiny insect :)
Ladybird eggs on the underside of a leaf on an apple tree this morning. Very close to where I saw a particularly sluggish ladybird a few mornings ago, almost cocooned in a curled-up leaf. (https://i.imgur.com/ay7PCqMt.jpg)
Pingu and Salvatore are you using a flash to get your pictures?
I'm musing about buying a speedflash rather than using the popup on the camera. I could use a diffuser then.
Pingu and Salvatore are you using a flash to get your pictures?
I'm musing about buying a speedflash rather than using the popup on the camera. I could use a diffuser then.
No idea what this 400kΩ insects is.I’m going for ancistrocerus nigricornis a solitary wasp. But not 100% certain looking at the distribution map. (Because I don’t know where the photo was taken and it’s inappropriate to ask on here)
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No idea what this 400kΩ insects is.I’m going for ancistrocerus nigricornis a solitary wasp. But not 100% certain looking at the distribution map. (Because I don’t know where the photo was taken and it’s inappropriate to ask on here)
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Certain males are able to "plug" the female after they have mated with her to prevent other males from copulating with the female. This plugging involves using the entire male's body, thus allowing him to only mate once.
Butterflies are such ugly beasts, aren't they?
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Darkling beetles huddling in a cleft in some bark. It was much colder yesterday and they weren't coming out to play.
Roesel's bush-crickets have evolved their amazing courtship apparatus.http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150607-these-insects-use-vibrators
They have a pair of curved rods called titillators pointing out of their genital openings. They look a bit like coat hooks.
Until recently no one knew what they were for. But it now seems they stimulate a sensitive area of the female's genitals.
The new results have been published in the journal Arthropod Structure and Development.
Gerlind Lehmann of the Humboldt-University Berlin in Germany and her colleagues examined the titillators under microscopes. Then they watched bush-crickets mating, and used CT scans to figure out what the titillators were doing during mating.
They found that the male repeatedly, and rhythmically, inserted the titillators into the female's genital opening.
The titillators were gently drumming on a plate inside the female's genitals. This plate was covered in different kinds of sensory cells, suggesting that the female could detect the titillators' drumming.
This suggests that the titillators are somehow helping the male keep the female interested, much as mating humans perform foreplay on each other's genitals to stimulate sexual desire.
In unpublished experiments, Lehmann tried shortening the titillators.
The females became more likely to resist the male's attempts at mating, and males were less likely to succeed in transferring sperm.
A pair of Green Dock Beetles this morning. "During the mating season, females have enlarged abdomens." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrophysa_viridula
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Very nice. I do like a shiny insect :)