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I don't even remember taking this photo. (I just hope it's mine.) ...Kidding. But it was like seeing it for the first time. I was proud of myself. ;- P
This Chafer Beetle is eating pollen on a Buttercup flower. I managed to get five frames before the critter realized I was close and stopped feeding.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 2.5x) + 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. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Clarity in that order. I was holding on to the flower's stem with my left hand, and then resting the lens on that same hand to help keep the scene steady.
Cool temperatures and partly cloudy skies create a stop and go environment for small critters like this female Mining Bee that was foraging for pollen on a Dandelion. Also windy, so the breeze masked the vibration that I caused when I grabbed onto the Dandelion's stem.
Tech Specs: Canon 90D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT, E-TTL metering, -2/3 FEC. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. Shutter and ISO set to expose the sky in the background.
Diesen schönen Falter habe ich im Schmetterlingshaus im Krefelder Zoo knipsen können. WoW da gibt es so viele schöne Falter :)
Hier ein Bild von einem Männchen der Großen Königslibelle .
Ich denke das Sie schon viel erlebt hat und hier und da den einen Kampf gehabt hat, das zeigen deutlich die Kampfspuren an den Flügeln 😳
Day-flying scarab beetle in Florida and much of the eastern half of the United States. The dark flower scarab is also called the spangled flower beetle, for the white marks on the dark background that give it a star-spangled look. The dark flower scarab is a scarab beetle that eats pollen, nectar, and perhaps other parts of flowers.
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Leafroller weevil (ca. 4.5mm, Attelabidae, Coleoptera) from Niaouli forest (Benin, West-Africa, May 2018).
Studio work with an ethanol preserved specimen. Focus stack based on 38 images (50µm step), assembled in ZereneStacker (Pmax & Dmap). Sony A7RM3 (apsc mode), Canon MP-E 65mm at 3x, f4.5, 1/13s, -0.7step, ISO50, diffused ledlight. Cropped image.
What a pleasant surprise to find in my garden this morning, after listening to cicadas: Sphecius speciosus, the Cicada Killer or Cicada Hawk, a large digger wasp, that preys on cicadas.
This caterpillar, Pieris brassicas has been parasitised by the parasitoid wasp Cotesia Glomerata. After feeding on it's host internally it eventually eats its way out to form these yellow cocoon clusters, which the caterpillar then constructs a silk web that provides the developing parasitic wasp with extra protection, which in turn helps protects them from being parasitised themselves.