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Pretty little spreadwing damselfly at rest.
Genus Lestes, family Lestidae. This family hold their wings at around 45 degrees to the body when resting. This distinguishes them from most other species of damselfly which hold the wings along, and parallel to, the body when at rest.
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Getting my macro photography back on. Samantha wandered into our rumpus room last night and scuttled under the lounge, prompting my wife to lift her legs off the floor faster than I've seen her move in years ;)
Samantha emerged later looking very pleased with her new "dust and debris" hairdo, I think it's going to be the go-to style for all the in-crowd stylish spiders this season. Or maybe I should think about cleaning under the lounge every now and then.
For the technically minded this photo is actual size and is a focus stack of 10 photos taken with my Olympus 60mm macro lens with a Raynox250 lens attached.
Cheers from Samantha & I :)
Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826) (Diptera: calliphoridae)
La mosca verde botella común (Phaenicia sericata o Lucilia sericata) es una mosca de la familia Calliphoridae encontrada en la mayoría de las áreas del mundo y la más conocida de las numerosas especies de moscas verde botella. Es de 10-14 mm de largo, ligeramente más grande que una mosca doméstica, y tiene coloración brillante, metálica, azul-verde u oro con marcas negras. Tiene cerdas (setas) cortas y escasas de color negro en el tórax. Las alas son transparentes con venas marrón claro; las patas y antenas son negras. Las larvas se utilizan para la terapia de gusanos
It is a bright-green lynx spider usually found on green plants. It is the largest North American species. The body of the female may be as much as 22 millimeters (0.87 in) long. The male is smaller, being more slender and averaging 12 millimeters (0.47 in) in length. There often is a red patch between the eyes, with a few red spots on the body.
Vanessa kershawi 'painting' my garden as it made its way between plants.
Larvae feed on a number of herbaceous plants within family Asteraceae including the Australian natives rice flower, yellow buttons, strawflowers and more.
Wingspan 50 mm
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NB: Not captive. Seen on garden patio tiles.
Curious looking characters the weevils are. These beetles with their elongated snouts and myriad forms are truly unique.
This is Eurhynchus quadrituberculatus within family Brentidae, with non-elbowed antennae. Xylophagous, with the larvae being fungivorous.
One sleek weevil.
Length around 20 mm.
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Hi People!
Yet another image of the Painted Lady. I hope you like Painted Ladies because I took tons of images of them this summer/early fall. I can't seem to capture enough butterflies, the season is so short ...
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A lateral view is shared here to show the pretty flash of turquoise on the thorax. This took quite some doing as the dragon was very restless in nature.
A summer's day, enjoying the exceptional aerial prowess of the dragonfly.
Body length 50mm.
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Truly a miracle of Nature...metamorphosis from caterpillar to adult, winged butterfly, with a complete reorganization of external and internal body parts.
Id describe myself mainly as a landscape photographer... But chasing big vistas is difficult when your job isn't a professional photographer and lack of time is a huge factor... but fulled by You tube videos done by full time photographers I put too much pressure on myself to produce Landscape images... when the reality is beautiful images can be found very close to home!
Ive had quite an enlightening day... I went a local walk I'd not done before and found a lovely forest only 1 mile away from my house I will return too one day... and whist relaxing on my patio eating lunch I was inspired to spend an hour in my back garden lying in the clover photographing the various bees that visited. Photographing them this close with the macro lens was a great learning curve... they move soo fast and my biggest enemy was motion blur and DOF I found... eventually I decided ISO 100 was wrong and ramped it up... that allowed me to move from f2.8... which was just too narrow to f4.5... but the various focus distances and changing light made it hard just to find the perfect settings as ideally you would want to take a few test shots and then the shot... but the dynamic of the bees buzzing about just does not give you that time or luxury... so you need to work fast and focus hard! It was a real skill test but came away with some images I like from various behavioural positions and angles... A great few hours photography!