Eddie The Bugman
~A Curious Thing~
I was extremely pleased to find lots of these running about at Wollaton Park. If you remember I found one last year, this is a Mesopsocus sp. These are a type of Barkfly, they are quite large as Barkfly go and these were about 3-4mm long. They are very active little things and spend their time running about, but luckily for me every so often they seem to freeze and will stay motionless for a few seconds.
This one stayed put long enough for an 18 image handheld focus stack at about 3-4x mag, I used ISO 400, aperture F/5.6 and a 1/160 shutter speed. I think these are one of the most unusual insects I find, they really are cool critters :o)
~A Curious Thing~
I was extremely pleased to find lots of these running about at Wollaton Park. If you remember I found one last year, this is a Mesopsocus sp. These are a type of Barkfly, they are quite large as Barkfly go and these were about 3-4mm long. They are very active little things and spend their time running about, but luckily for me every so often they seem to freeze and will stay motionless for a few seconds.
This one stayed put long enough for an 18 image handheld focus stack at about 3-4x mag, I used ISO 400, aperture F/5.6 and a 1/160 shutter speed. I think these are one of the most unusual insects I find, they really are cool critters :o)