Any bug photos during August 2015

**James G** · 18th August 2015, 09:19 PM

Win 10 running on an 'old' HP laptop
Have just uploaded the attached using Tinypic

**IzzieK** · 19th August 2015, 08:01 AM

Geoff, love #1 and #3...#3 is most unusual to me, as I had not seen anything like it before...Great work !

**marlunn** · 19th August 2015, 10:33 AM

test via tynypic, just hangs in uploading....Please wait - trying via upload from computer under attachments seesm to put it up as a thumbnail - nothing else changed on computer from prior to win 10 its a pain

**James G** · 19th August 2015, 01:15 PM

Interesting... can't imagine it is relevant but I'm using the 'pro' version of Windows 10.

And, just to check I upload by: -

1) post quick reply

2 Go Advanced not Click Here to Upload Photos from your Computer

3) Then, .... Click Here to Upload Photos from your Computer... Tiny pic should then open so:-
a) click on browse
b) find the image in file explorer
c) open
d) when image appears in Tinypic click on upload now
e) once tag is filled with the URL, copy this

4) return to the reply screen and click on a clear line

5) Click on the Insert Image Icon in the command line at the top of the message box.

6) Once the url window opens, then past the saved URL from Tinypix into the it.

7) Edit the URL reference that appears in the message text to remove the additional [IMG] at each end of the link.....

8) submit reply

and "'Bob's yer'uncle", as they say

Can't imagine you are doing anything different from me... but it's probably worth a check..

**marlunn** · 19th August 2015, 05:35 PM

yep also 'pro' version and thats exactly how i did it previously

okay - it appears its a setting in Firefox somewhere then - just went to Chrome no problem

oh and this is a Hoverfly - Helophilus pendulus

**marlunn** · 19th August 2015, 05:40 PM

okay thats weird, just tried same again in Firefox - it works now

but hey its a nice Hoverfly

**Geoff F** · 19th August 2015, 07:01 PM

But is it a male or female Helophilus, Mark?

Good clarity and colour.

**marlunn** · 19th August 2015, 07:04 PM

Geoff, its female i think

hmm just tried to upload another and back to the same problem as before.

**marlunn** · 19th August 2015, 07:13 PM

and now in Chrome

xanthogramma pedissequum

**Saorsa** · 19th August 2015, 07:26 PM

Overripe apples seem attractive.

**Geoff F** · 19th August 2015, 08:20 PM

It is a nice bright species isn't it Mark. There seem to be a few more around this year but I never find them to be commonplace.

In the Spring, look out for the rare X. citrofasciatum. They should be found near the coast in your area. I have discovered a few here but nothing for the past couple of years.

Wasps are subjects which I keep attempting, Brian, but I find it difficult to get full face shots for a positive identification. I wonder if that is a German Wasp in your photo; going by what I can see of its face

**marlunn** · 19th August 2015, 08:34 PM

Yep, really impressive beasties Geoff, I thought I had one a year ago in Dorset - well the lizard did

- but it turns out it was not a Hover at all but a soldier fly Oxycera rara, this was in Abbotsbury Tropical Garden early September 2014

**Geoff F** · 21st August 2015, 07:35 PM

Good real life scene there, Mark.

And in a similar mood. 'Come a little closer' said the spider to the fly.

Misumena vatia spider; and the fly escaped.

This Digger Wasp looks a bit like Ectemnius cavifrons but identification really needs a microscope and an actual specimen to be certain.

**Nat** · 22nd August 2015, 03:23 AM

Wow, you guys are good! I love looking at all of these, just wish I had more bugs about to shoot. Well, here's all I could find. The grasshoppers this year are plentiful, but shy. These two stayed put for me...I felt blessed....

Grasshopper 1 by N. Overholt, on Flickr

Grasshopper 2 by N. Overholt, on Flickr

And the garden spiders are plentiful this year....I counted more than 18 of these just around my house. I love to leave their webs and watch them grow. They make quick work of other bugs. Hmmm....maybe that's why I am short of variety around here...? Oh, and I'm missing a cat.....ha ha ha....not really. Too many of those about. They just keep multiplying.

Argiope aurantia by N. Overholt, on Flickr

**Saorsa** · 22nd August 2015, 08:32 AM

Incidentally, can anyone point me to a good bug ID page for UK insects? I can't find this one on the Butterfly Conservation webpage.

**piggsy** · 22nd August 2015, 08:41 AM

Very small spiders! E-P5 + Raynox 250 + Olympus 60mm 2.8 macro

http://abload.de/img/p8200124ypux6.jpg

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This guy likes people - jumped off a tree I was examining and landed on the back of my neck, managed to get him onto the ground safely. Actually this is kind of my nightmare for night photography, I almost walked into a dying/enraged large orb weaver spider hanging from a tree at head height in the middle of our driveway a couple of weeks back. This guy was cool though

Probably the smallest spider I've taken photos of so far - all are crops from 1.96x photos -

http://abload.de/img/p8220118m5usw.jpg

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**piggsy** · 22nd August 2015, 09:16 AM

E-P5 / Vivitar 135mm 2.8 Close Focusing

http://abload.de/img/p8180134d3ktd.jpg

E-P5 / Olympus 60mm 2.8 Macro

http://abload.de/img/p8220059yrkge.jpg

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**Saorsa** · 22nd August 2015, 09:37 AM

**piggsy** · 22nd August 2015, 11:15 AM

Found a whole bunch of ladybug larvae and hatchlings on a shrub I'd never seen a single insect take the slightest interest in before.

http://abload.de/img/p8110102icpkc.jpg

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^ not large

These were with the 60mm macro at 1:1 and the raynox 250 and 150 stacked again, and then cropped. Pretty much right against the front of the 150 and a real bugger to light.

http://abload.de/img/p8220030jxr1s.jpg

Empty husks, actually thought these were some kind of true bug / sap sucking thing until I got the photos back, too small to actually see, and I didnt associate them at all without the colourful bug/larvae inside.

http://abload.de/img/p81200248ro0u.jpg

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**piggsy** · 22nd August 2015, 01:37 PM

E-P5 / Tokina AT-X 90mm 2.5 / Raynox 250

Not particularly impressive as a photo but I was pleased getting a fly the size of a grass seed in gusty wind with an MF lens

http://abload.de/img/p8120034omu26.jpg

Some kind of beetles on a bottlebrush tree.

http://abload.de/img/p8120065qsul3.jpg

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E-P5 / Olympus 60mm macro / Raynox 250

Finding this one caterpillar on this bush has led me to search every single one of these around for anything similar in the days since, so far it's about the only bug I've seen on one. What a time waster

http://abload.de/img/p81500112gucv.jpg

http://abload.de/img/p8150024meukr.jpg

And finally the assassin bug nymph I got one decent shot of the other month came out further from the deeper branches of his tree.

http://abload.de/img/p8200041abu5o.jpg