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In my garden this early summer, there are lots and lots of mayflys dancing their aerial acrobatics. Sometimes they land and rest, but their landings are not always as graceful as their sky waltzes they dazzle the eyes with.... the rhododendron landing whose photograph I showed last time was a bit clumsy and brusque in nature, which the pink flower pleasantly dampened.
Here, on the budding beach iris flower, the landing was more controlled and the rest for a while posed for my camera. A session that lasted a few minutes before the beautiful mayfly resumed its atmospheric ballet until the veil of twilight embraced it.☺️
Always exciting to find a Monarch caterpillar on a Milkweed leaf. The leaf was loaded with aphids, which I Photoshopped out.
It's rainy here, but this morning during a break in the weather I found this cluster of earwig eggs under a rock in the garden (although I didn't see the mother, who typically would be guarding them). What I especially like are the sparkly micro-droplets of condensation; each egg is at most 1 mm., so the droplets are incredibly small. The brownish spots on the eggs are the compound eyes and mandibles of the developing babies (the only pigmented structures at this stage) showing through the eggshells. Shot at 2X, ten handheld images stacked.
Hier haben sich 3 Bläulinge getroffen zum paaren.
Der vordere wollte wohl nicht das ich die beiden anderen knipse, deswegen hat Er seine Flügel ausgebreitet. 😄
Der Distelfalter (Vanessa cardui) ist ein Schmetterling aus der Familie der Edelfalter (Nymphalidae).
Les Coccinellidae, en français coccinellidés, sont une famille d'insectes de l'ordre des coléoptères, appelés aussi coccinelles, ou encore familièrement ou régionalement bêtes à bon Dieu ou pernettes. Ce taxon monophylétique regroupe environ 6 000 espèces réparties dans le monde entier.
A hummingbird hawk-moth hovers effortlessly before a flower, suspended for only a moment before moving on. Its brief visit feels like an invitation to pause and appreciate one of nature's most remarkable aerial performers.
I was trying to get some head shots at five times life size of this lethargic Sawfly when it woke up and started feeding. The framing was just too tight at 5x to get the critters mouth parts, so I took a risk and backed the camera out, dialed the MP-E 65mm down to 4x, and brought the camera back in to get a shot. I got lucky and didn't spook critter into taking off. The tricky part is tracking a moving subject when the frame at 4x is only 5.7mm wide by 3.7mm high.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 4x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, +1/3 FEC, second curtain sync). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Photographing a bee in the front garden using a macro lens.
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Antlion (I think Brachynemurus sp.) at night, Anza-Borrego Desert, California. These lovely insects resemble dragonflies/damselflies, but are in another order, Neuroptera, with lacewings and owlflies. Larvae & adults are predators. Larvae of this genus live in sand, but unlike some antlion species, they don't make the little circular, ant-trapping pitfall traps that the name "antlion" comes from.