Any bug photos during July 2015

[deetheturk]

Spider, any I.D anyone, I am thinking Orb Weaver family?

[TobyMac]

Haha almost Greg but not quite

[JBW]

How about a colourful fly?

[deetheturk]

Very nice B

[deetheturk]

A Butterfly, and something else needing an I.D


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[JBW]

Very nice B

the a58 has built in anti shake that allows me once again to take hand held.

[JBW]

it's a bug

[deetheturk]

it's a bug

Thank's for the detailed I.D. B

[JBW]

Thank's for the detailed I.D. B

you want detail talk to Geoff.

[marlunn]

one from today, a soldier fly - suspect Chloromyia formosa

[Geoff F]

Yes, that is correct, Mark. They now have a common name, Broad Centurion Soldierfly; but that isn't a lot easier to use than the Latin alternative.

Nat. Your bug looks sharply focused to me. I can't see any shooting information under the Exif details. With a macro lens, even in the F11 to F16 range your depth of focus is going to be very shallow and being head on to your subject means the rear end and background are going to be totally out of focus.

I don't instantly recognise that spider, David. Possibly a Metellina or Araneidae species although there are some Theridiidae with relatively short legs. Possibly the eye arrangement might give a clue.

The butterfly is one of the 'whites', maybe Small White - Pieris rapae. And the fly might be one of the short palp cranefly group but difficult to get started down the identification road without clearly seeing the wing veins.

[Geoff F]

Just a common Meadow Grasshopper snap from me today; but I liked the way male and female were together.

[marlunn]

Nicely taken Geoff gives good info on sex size differential

[deetheturk]

Cheers Geoff

[gregj1763]

Finally found a little Jumping spider so I can join the party
Spotted him/her as I came home from work today and managed to get organised and fire a few shots off before it started raining.
Kicking myself didn't have more time as I should have had the aperture up F/22 or so not F/9
Anyway I know where it lives now

[deetheturk]

Nice capture Greg, I shoot nearly all my Macro at f14, the rest between f11 AND f16!

[gregj1763]

Nice capture Greg, I shoot nearly all my Macro at f14, the rest between f11 AND f16!

Thanks David, now stored in memory.


Here is a mosquito I took at F/20. While the image is a little soft I can clearly see the deeper DOF than the spider at F/9

[Ziggy]

Nice stuff Greg, David, Mark, Geoff and Brian.

[Geoff F]

F14 is my 'default position' for this sort of shot, Greg. Makes a good compromise.

By the time you get past F16 you are likely to be seeing some lens softness appearing. Some out of focus areas are normal for macro shots, unless you stack a number of different focus points.

Nineta flava, one of the larger Lacewings around 18 mm.

[piggsy]

Some from this month so far -



















Sorry, not trying to spam, just starting late

All from the Oly PEN E-PM2, first two are a Vivitar 90mm f2.5 with the vivitar 2x macro focusing teleconverter, the others are with the olympus 60mm f2.8 macro.