Macro not so good this month

[ajohnw]

There wasn't much about this time.

Crane fly. I wish I had got in closer on this one and just shot the wings and body. As it is this isn't far short of a crop.



Not sure what this one is and as it wont make a great shot complete with my noise introducing PP.



I found one spider. Only the 2nd this year but not in an ideal position dof wise.



Nothing much else about. Occasional butterflies that wouldn't settle and flies of course, they are always about. Guess it's because the weather has turned colder and damper.

John
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[deetheturk]

Nice captures John, we are the opposite here, too f****n hot here, there's practically no bugs at all

David

[Kodiak]

Macro not so good this month

Says Who??? Shoot 'em…this time not to immortalize 'em

[Slipper]

A good set John. Is the second some sort of Shield Bug?: The butterflies are the same here, the Gatekeepers of a month ago have all gone, leaving the Whites that wont settle.

[Geoff F]

Craneflies are always tricky, John. Always difficult to get both wing veins and body sharply focused in just one shot; so this has worked out well. Looks like one of the commoner species of Tipula to me.

I was trying to shoot some Green Shieldbug nymphs, just like #2, today but just couldn't get the right angle. Eventually tried to move one but it just ran off and hid under some leaves.

Your spider is one of the Linyphilia, probably L. triangularis.

Looks like it might be a brighter day tomorrow so possibly more subjects queuing up for their portraits.

[ajohnw]

It's a pity I missed the leaf between the green what ever it is and the lens. A problem with m 4/3 as the electronic view can't show it. There were some speckled woodlands about and they usually settle. The shots were taken in Pembrokeshire. I usually go there once a month. There was a few whites about a couple of months ago in B'ham but they didn't hang around at all.

Seems the latest remnant of a hurricane will warm things up this week - then if it doesn't the weather forecasters will tell us sorry but the jet stream moved the wrong way.

John
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[ajohnw]

Craneflies are always tricky, John. Always difficult to get both wing veins and body sharply focused in just one shot; so this has worked out well. Looks like one of the commoner species of Tipula to me.

I was trying to shoot some Green Shieldbug nymphs, just like #2, today but just couldn't get the right angle. Eventually tried to move one but it just ran off and hid under some leaves.

Your spider is one of the Linyphilia, probably L. triangularis.

Looks like it might be a brighter day tomorrow so possibly more subjects queuing up for their portraits.

The crane fly is interesting. I vaguely remember reading (or may be imagining) that those balls on the ends of the thin stems are used as a sort of stabilising arrangement during flight. I framed the entire thing plus some which would help with dof so maybe I should be glad I shot it like that.

John
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[Geoff F]

I vaguely remember reading (or may be imagining) that those balls on the ends of the thin stems are used as a sort of stabilising arrangement during flight.
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I think you mean the Halteres, John. They are all that is left of the hindwings and are to be found in some form on all 2 winged flies.

And yes, they do help with stabilisation in flight.

[ajohnw]

I think you mean the Halteres, John. They are all that is left of the hindwings and are to be found in some form on all 2 winged flies.

And yes, they do help with stabilisation in flight.

I have no idea where I picked that up from Geoff hence wondering if my imagination had invented it.

John
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[Shadowman]

Nice captures, the few bugs we have are more of a nuisance than a potential photo op.