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I'll tell you, we are being invaded by bugs- they are everywhere!
See it larger: zmanphoto.blogspot.com/2006/03/bug-landing.html
With my 18-55 is hard to take a picture of a bug but i did my best. I had to convert it to black and white in order to make the bug look better.
Harlequin Cabbage Bug
Los Leones Canyon
Pacific Palisades, CA
These bugs are considered pests in gardens or to crops as they suck sap and chlorophyll from plants. The bugs were native to Central American and are believed to have spread to the U.S. from Mexico after the Civil War.
Don't know what he is but he is little biddy. Looks like a little white dot hovering around like a humming bird. He is constantly on the move and hovers just a brief moment. Had to gone on manual focus and try to follow him around while adjusting focus the whole time. This is the best I could get for right now. Hopefully he will be out there tomorrow. Did not gone on auto focus for fear it would not even see him and focus on the trees in the back ground. Maybe some one can put an ID on him :)
I guess he is kinda cute for a bug :)
Shot taken beside a Virginia Stream.
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"Mr Wheel Bug ... You're a Scary Guy!" This is a line from the Wheel Bug Rap (see below)
This was the first really exciting bug I ever photographed. Compared with the Assassin Bug and even the Ambush Bug, the Wheel Bug is bigger and really has that pre-historic dinosaur look. All are in the family Reduviidae. All three attack their prey by grabbing hold with claws and then impaling with their fang like beak. Through the beak is injected poison and digestive enzymes. The beak then doubles as a straw to consume the predigested meal.
The Wheel Bug Rap
Said (or sung) with a funky beat
Your nose is a hypodermic needle,
Your back has wings to fly,
Your legs have hooks to grasp your prey,
And hold them till they die.
(Chorus)
They call you wheel bug,
Cause your back is a wheel,
It's shape is kinda rough.
You're a real bug
With wings, six legs,
And lots of other insect stuff.
Your head is shaped like two arrows,
Right On It ... a beak and three eyes,
With two feelers of red, you're a sight to dread!
Mr. Wheel Bug ... you're a scary guy.
(Chorus)
Your beak extends like a switch blade,
It's pointed and hollow and kills!
It's a real poison pen ... but there's more!
It's a straw to drink your meals.
(Chorus)
Wheel bug you're so ... prehistoric,
It's good you're only ... one inch long,
I'm glad you're a bug and I'm not one,
And that's the end of this song.
My first wheel bug shot taken last year: www.flickr.com/photos/drphotomoto/3002340775/
These beautiful women want to sell you some bug spray in a lovely bottle that could be mistaken for a beer, with disastrous results.
Found in an antique store in Guangzhou, China, but I was duped. It's a reproduction.
This is my first attempt at interval shooting of lightning bugs. An earlier attempt of mine was simply long exposure.
The green lights are the male bugs. I used a stack of layers in PhotoShop for time lapse photography. The purple light is the residue of the sun that set at least half an hour earlier.
I wish this photo were better.
I struggled with the interval settings of my camera for a long time in the dark. My camera's buttons are illuminated as its back LCD, so I could navigate the settings reasonably well in the dark. I thought I had set up the camera correctly during the day hours but here in the field at night it just wouldn't go on. Finally, I realized I had turned on my timer to photo the dim scenery at twilight and that the interval program could not be activated while the timer was on. Whew! Problem solved. But I think I knocked the focus of my lens slightly off in the process of fixing the interval shooting.
By my third attempt, I was better with my camera and its nighttime stack/interval settings but unfortunately the lightning bugs had faded out. I think for the season. They also were collecting in the trees, where they weren't moving much. The field I used on my first attempt was much better since the lightning bugs were on the move.
My first attempt above may be the lightning bugs' last big shindig this season. I see them still out but they just aren't in the numbers that they were. I also have a scenic location picked out, but apparently, the lightning bugs do not consider my location such a perfect place.
I'm posting this as a benchmark for myself. I know the perfect background that I want for a lightning bug shooting. Now if only the lightning bugs and my camera will cooperate.
Bug tour at the Intu Metro Centre, Gateshead, North East England. On display from Feb 2nd to March 2nd 2019. . .