Post your insects

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Originally Posted by SpiderBob

I have an army of these guys this year. Good for the garden.

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Nice shot, I love the detail and the quiet background bokeh

Yippee!, I received my macro tubes in the post yesterday, so now I can move over to the DSLR for macros and hopefully reduce the noise I was getting with the Bridge camera on macro setting.
Here is one of my first with the tubes, taken this afternoon.
Still a lot to learn - focusing is not very easy.

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Dirty Business 1 by RobN185, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by Letrow

Nice detail for that lens I think. The colour is a bit strange though, did you have artificial light when you shot this?

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Hi Peter,

Our front porch area has a cover that uses some opaque panels in it, and they diffuse the sunlight to a great degree. The first spider pic was shot looking straight up, and she was on one of those opaque panels. Spider #2 was on the upper door jamb molding.



Mike

http://i55.tinypic.com/2qixuns.jpg

Second attempt with my Canon 100mm Macro. It's a whole new world out there

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Originally Posted by NoCard

Yippee!, I received my macro tubes in the post yesterday, so now I can move over to the DSLR for macros and hopefully reduce the noise I was getting with the Bridge camera on macro setting.
Here is one of my first with the tubes, taken this afternoon.
Still a lot to learn - focusing is not very easy.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/...b4b57978_b.jpg
Dirty Business 1 by RobN185, on Flickr

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Still, even with the learning curve, a great (and gruesome) photo:D

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Originally Posted by flechtight

Even a bug needs Love

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Bug Pr0n! http://backup.cambridgeincolour.com/...tzie/moose.gif

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Two species of Syrphidae or hoverfly, helophilus and scaeva pyrastri

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Originally Posted by Letrow

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6121/...dff50f0c_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6129/...52e28038_b.jpg

Two species of Syrphidae or hoverfly

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Great captures Peter, these guys are so fast, I can never get close enough to catch them.
Is this the Kiron macro lens?

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Originally Posted by NoCard

Great captures Peter, these guys are so fast, I can never get close enough to catch them.
Is this the Kiron macro lens?

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Thanks Rob. No, this is the Nikkor 105mm VR actually. The Kiron lens is great if you have a stationary object:D

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Originally Posted by Letrow

... this is the Nikkor 105mm VR actually.

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It gives a very good DOF, my new tubes are giving a very shallow DOF, almost like a 1mm slice !
I might try focus stacking if I can get an insect to stay still long enough to take a few shots :D :D

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Here's another one for the collection (taken with the Lumix on Macro, but really strong light, so noise was not so bad this time.)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/...ebb787cd_b.jpg

Found this lady on the window screen yesterday:

http://www.pbase.com/dizzygazer/image/137532693.jpg

We seem to be deluged this year with just one variety of spider..having a hard time finding others.

Caught this bee loading up...

http://www.pbase.com/dizzygazer/image/137544372.jpg

I don't have a macro lens; both of the above were shot with the 18-105mm Nikon kit lens.

Grasshopper posing.
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shot with Cannon 7D, 100MM Macro lens, ISO 200, 1/100, f/18.

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Originally Posted by NoCard

It gives a very good DOF, my new tubes are giving a very shallow DOF, almost like a 1mm slice !
I might try focus stacking if I can get an insect to stay still long enough to take a few shots :D :D

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Here's another one for the collection (taken with the Lumix on Macro, but really strong light, so noise was not so bad this time.)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/...ebb787cd_b.jpg

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That is beautiful Rob, nice detail on the wings. These big ones are very restless normally, so you were lucky to capture it.

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I still have not managaed to get a shot of the Black Swallowtail, but here are a few others. I wouldn't mind some help with IDing the last 2. I've named them what I thought they might be but I'm not 100%.
BTW all these butterflies seem to be very attracted to Heliotrope. Just thought I'd mention it because it's not a plant that I have seen mentioned in any of my reading about butterfly gardens.

#1. Cabbage Butterfly on Coreopsis: I so wanted this butterfly to land on the coreopsis instead of the heliotrope, but although I like the similar tones, I'm not that happy with the shot. I don't know if I could PP differently or if it's just a matter of not having the right light. Anyway here it is
https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...1&d=1314572521

#2. Red Spotted Purple??? I think this is the same type of butterfly as in post #202 but showing the different colours on the topside of the wings.
https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...2&d=1314572521

#3. Question Mark Butterfly???? Not sure why they name these things after punctuation marks I don't see commas or question marks, but I was quite excited when I saw this one on the heliotrope.
https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...3&d=1314572621

C&C and accurate Identification appreciated.

Wendy

Cool shots Wendy.

The first one is a Cabbage White.

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Originally Posted by ScoutR

I still have not managaed to get a shot of the Black Swallowtail, but here are a few others. I wouldn't mind some help with IDing the last 2. I've named them what I thought they might be but I'm not 100%.
BTW all these butterflies seem to be very attracted to Heliotrope. Just thought I'd mention it because it's not a plant that I have seen mentioned in any of my reading about butterfly gardens.

#1. Cabbage Butterfly on Coreopsis: I so wanted this butterfly to land on the coreopsis instead of the heliotrope, but although I like the similar tones, I'm not that happy with the shot. I don't know if I could PP differently or if it's just a matter of not having the right light. Anyway here it is
https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...1&d=1314572521

#2. Red Spotted Purple??? I think this is the same type of butterfly as in post #202 but showing the different colours on the topside of the wings.
https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...2&d=1314572521

#3. Question Mark Butterfly???? Not sure why they name these things after punctuation marks I don't see commas or question marks, but I was quite excited when I saw this one on the heliotrope.
https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...3&d=1314572621

C&C and accurate Identification appreciated.

Wendy

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Nice shots Wendy, I wish I had a bit more variety over here:(. The first one is my favourite. Clean photo and nice composition.

Some identification suggestions.

Jon, if those were UK beetles, I would say Rhagonycha fluva, also known as 'bonking beetles' for obvious reasons.

Peter, first one is one of the Helophilus species, but I need a shot of the hind tibia and face to go further. And Scaeva pyrastri. Both females

Rob, Broad-bodied Chaser and a very clear photo.

Mike, that spider looks like a Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) but that is assuming the American version is similar to the UK species.

I'm not going to offer suggestions for the other US/Canadian species except to say that a Question Mark Butterfly may be named after markings on the underside of it's wings. Like the European Comma butterfly.

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Originally Posted by Geoff F

Rob, Broad-bodied Chaser and a very clear photo.

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Thanks for the ID Geoff. I have updated my Flickr Pic :)

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Originally Posted by NoCard

Thanks for the ID Geoff. I have updated my Flickr Pic :)

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Thanks Geoff, that is good information.