Post your insects

[Letrow]

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

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

[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.


Dirty Business 1 by RobN185, on Flickr

[Dizzy]

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

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

[flechtight]

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

[Letrow]

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.


Dirty Business 1 by RobN185, on Flickr

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

[Dizzy]

Even a bug needs Love

Bug Pr0n!

[Letrow]

Two species of Syrphidae or hoverfly, helophilus and scaeva pyrastri

[NoCard]

Two species of Syrphidae or hoverfly

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

[Letrow]

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

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

[NoCard]

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

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

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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.)

[Dizzy]

Found this lady on the window screen yesterday:



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

Caught this bee loading up...



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

[Pstearns]

Grasshopper posing.

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

[Letrow]

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

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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.)

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

[Bobobird]

[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


#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.


#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.


C&C and accurate Identification appreciated.

Wendy

[Bobobird]

Cool shots Wendy.

The first one is a Cabbage White.

[Letrow]

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


#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.


#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.


C&C and accurate Identification appreciated.

Wendy

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

[Geoff F]

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.

[NoCard]

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

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

[Letrow]

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

Thanks Geoff, that is good information.