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Lepidoptera : Geometridae
Hodges 6966
This moth is doing a poor job of trying to blend in.
About 60 mm wingspan.
Help ID? (Thanks to Ali Lyoob for ID!)
Raleigh, NC USA
The foregound is blurred 'cos a almost lied down on the ground, and the sand was too close for the cam, I guess it turned out good.
A Leaf insect (Walking leaf) from Thodupuzha, Kerala. Phasmida species. Looks like Phyllium gigantium. Not sure. It is almost 11 cm+.
A cocoon formed in a Scale Insect found on bay tree on 23rd March. The resulting adult wasp eclosed on 6th April and proved to be a Coccophagus obscurus of the Aphelinidae family. See next post.
Chrysochus auratus. Chrysomelidae. Female, male, and male in amplexus. Denison University Biological Reserve, Granville, Licking County, OH.
I always thought these particular dragonflies were hard to photograph until I browsed through my photos and found many photos of them.
These are some of the Photocard that I had sold 122 pieces of them. The set is 10 different pieces.
My work can be purchase at insecthunter.imagekind.com
More can be found about my Photo Fair where I sold some prints of my selected images, and why I selected them: insecthunter.sfm121u.com/?p=33
The insect wall I built.
Freshly chopped but mostly worthless wood. I filled the gaps between the logs with little hollow branches and straw.
Why?
Insects are a very important part of our ecosystem. We consider them mostly as creeps, but they are more than useful, rather necessary for our survival. Just like bees by the way.
The number of insects and species of insects has been negatively influenced by pesticides. Pesticides are hardly controlled or regulated by authorities and hardly discussed by science, because of the financial importance of the producers, the chemical industry.
All you can do as an individual is make circumstances for insects in your garden or even on your balcony as favorable as possible. An insect wall is one of the methods.
Several species of wood, drill holes in the logs on all sides, put grass and straw and hollow branches between them, and you'll be surprised how many creeps will visit you.
The birds love it, so the result is also more birds in your garden.
I hope it also results in beautiful photos of all sorts of insects.
Group of insects on yucca plant.
NPS / Paul Martinez
Alt Text: Insects scattered on the leaves of a yucca plant.
Episode 8, Part 2 of 2.
See previous post.
A male Metaphycus dispar parasitoid wasp that has recently eclosed from the Scale insect cocoon in the previous post. Cocoon was found on bay in Hasatings Cemetery on 6th April, adult wasp eclosed on 13th April. Additional pictures below.
Insect and flower. I shot this series with Olympus TOUGH TG-5 by using (normal) macro feature. In this case I could not use extended focus because insect was moving way too fast and it was quite challange to get some photos even with normal macro. I shot over 200 photos to get these few. However with compact macro (with small sensor size) this is somewhat easier than with full frame sensor DSLR and macro lens. Hausjärvi, Finland. 28.8.2017