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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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Cuerna striata
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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.
Hier genießt ein Hauhechel-Bläuling die letzten Sonnenstrahlen des Tages bevor es zur Nachtruhe übergeht ❤❤❤
I bought a kit so I could raise a few Swallowtail Butterflies (Papilio machaon) and this is the first one to emerge from a cocoon. I tried to get some shots of the second one I had, but it took off right away.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (4x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Clarity in that order. To get the depth that you see in this image I focused on the critter's proboscis and then twisted my wrist to lay the area of acceptable focus over as much of its eye as I could. So it's my technique that's making the difference and not the lens. The level of detail is also due to the quality and angle of my light.
Und noch ein schönes Exemplar in meiner Sammlung der Libellen , eine wundervolle Blaue Federlibelle (Platycnemis pennipes) Weibchen😊
This was taken 24 hours after the previous photo I posted, of just the unhatched eggs. The baby earwigs are almost transparent, except for their compound eyes and their mandibles. Why are those structures pigmented? My guess is, if you think about it, a transparent eye can't trap light, so to be useful it needs pigment. As for mandibles, they need to be tough enough to bite food (one here is already nibbling its empty eggshell) and melanin hardens (sclerotizes) them. By the way, if you zoom in you can see mandibles and eyes showing through in the still-unhatched eggs.
One of the Platypalpus species in the Hybotid family. I can't work out the species, there are over 200 of these.