common peacock on a pink flower

I have graduated to full macro by picking up a Sigma 105mm Macro lens today. It wasn't as bright out today so I had to stop down the shutter speed, so the image stabilization was quite helpful. Am still working on taking pictures so close and am not quite their with working with such a shallow depth of field. But I love the quality the lens is able to put out, and how close I am able to get to my subject. Give me suggestions in the comments on how I can improve my macro shooting.

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Audrey; Family Christmas gathering, Wentworth Falls

First dronefly hoverfly of the year. Focus stacked using zerene

Largish weevil. found 2 of these wrapped inside a maple leaf

or...inchworm

Miner bee feeding in a dandelion

This is the first snout I have photographed.

Asbolis capucinus

First large red damselfly of the year. Strong natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Digital camera

Hoverfly Volucella pellucens on hebe. Natural light

Near Shelburne, ON

ID please! Taken near Entebbe in Uganda

An Assassin bug enjoying his lunch.

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The Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle is one of the rarest insects in the US, found only in the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah.

SONY DSC

Comma butterfly feeding on some sugar/honey syrup on a camellia flower. Natural light.

Loni found an insect on the door to the cottage when we arrived.

We didn’t know what it was, but it was so unusual and pretty to us that I snapped a picture. It’s smaller than it appears here, as this was an extreme closeup of it.

Sphex lucae, one of about 100 species of digger wasps. 15-20 mm long.

Flower and insect.

I have tried to make some close ups just for fun.

flash is fired beneath from the leaf !

Explored!

This image was captured in my garden. I managed to get quite close to the bee.

LA Natural History Museum Butterfly Pavilion. With Meike 26mm macro extension tube. Manual Flash.

This is the second time I spotted a fly blowing a bubble and then sucking it back.

I have a large piece of plywood that leans against my house out back. Right near the porch light which is on all night long. So lots of insects are attracted to the light. I use my camera with flash to document what shows up. Got a stink bug lifer at 9:10 pm. This will make my 12 species of stink bug to photograph in DFW.

Green Burgundy Stink Bug (Banasa dimidiata)

Garland, Texas

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Araniella cucurbitina femelle

Clever bumble bees. Having tried the Mk1 bee feeder - a milkbottle top with some foam stuck on top of a cane with honey/sugar syrup in it. I've been thinking of how to overcome the inevitable problem that ants eventually find it and take it over. Well saw a small animal water feeder in the supermarket that hangs down. Stuck a couple of pieces of Velcro either side of the nozzle for grip and put some honey sugar syrup inside. Hung it up in a bush in the evening and next morning the bumble bees had it all worked out and were hanging off the nozzle feeding. I expect the ants will eventually work out how to get it but I was impressed that the bees worked it out so fast.

Insect to Macro

Juillet 2014

ID please