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We spent a pleasant afternoon at Drumburgh Moss NNR yesterday; we have never seen such an abundance of dragonflies in the UK before and the only other person we encountered there was a local man who said it was many years since he'd seen such numbers on the Moss. We reckon 99% were Black Darters, plus some Common Darters, Common Hawkers and a couple of Four-spot Chasers. Emerald Damselflies were numerous and the only other damsels we saw were a few Common Blues. 07/08/2013
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you are just standing still."
Camera- canon 400D
Lens- Sigma 70- 300 APO DG Macro
Was hoping for a true macro with some detail, but these little guys don't hold still for a second, and even when they stop they flail their front legs around maniacally. Amusing to watch them through the lens. Got some fun bokeh out of it anyway.
For the month of June, I decided to focus on insects, and to post one photo per day, of thirty species, made into a montage. I was pleased with how many interesting species I found, including some new to me. On some days I could have chosen any of several good species. The final result has quite a mix of species and kinds: juvenile and adult, mating and egg laying and newly hatched young, and butterflies and moths, dragonflies and a damselfly, a wasp and a fly and an earwig and more. Most were taken at point-blank range (four inches or less from the insect) with the Raynox 250.
Link to individual photos follow:
1. ovipositing eastern amberwing, 2. juvenile katydid on English plantain, 3. little wood-satyr on eastern wahoo, 4. grass-veneer moth, 5. green on green, 6. earwig on grass, 7. great spangled fritillary on common milkweed, 8. marsh fly, 9. eight-spotted forester caterpillar, 10. plume moth on flowers, 11. assassin bug, 12. long-horned flower beetle ovipositing in leaf, 13. cocklebur weevil, 14. emerging spittlebug, 15. ebony jewelwing on forget-me-not, 16. colorful katydid nymph, 17. leaf-footed bugs nymphs and eggs, 18. hopper nymph, 19. grapevine looper moth, 20. squash vine borer in flight, 21. lacewing larva with hopper prey, 22. faded blue jeans, 23. tiny ladybug on milkweed leaf, 24. close-up of female blue dasher, 25. juniper hairstreak, 26. wet monarch, 27. mating swamp milkweed leaf beetles, 28. small tortoise beetle on milkweed, 29. great black wasp on Queen Anne's lace, 30. mating webworm moths
I make no excuses for posting six images of the same species. I rose at 03:45 to leave home for 04:15 to be at the site where these are no later than 05:20. Everything was soaked in dew including the grass which was nigh on waste high in many places. I was wet through to well above the knee withing ten minutes. Waterproofs, I don't care for as they always seem to make me sweat plus they make more noise when you move than I care for. The plus side was some lovely damsels covered in dew drops. The negative was being wet and having to drive home wet. I was only on site a couple of hours as by about 07:30 they were too warmed up to get anywhere near for photographs. The nymph was seen climbing a reed stem ready for emergence. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to wait for it to emerge. A lot of time and effort went into getting these images and I sincerely thank any of you who comment or fave them or any of my images.
Honey bee on honey feeder. The feeder is just a plastic milk bottle top with small lengths of plastic straw in it to stop bugs falling in and drowning
Sur des fleurs de lavandes
Dans le vocabulaire commun, le mot bourdon désigne des insectes sociaux ou solitaires, qui ressemblent aux abeilles dites « domestiques » (et productrices de miel).
Les scientifiques nomment « bourdon » uniquement des insectes jouant un rôle majeur pour la pollinisation de nombreuses plantes à fleurs de la strate herbacée
No idea what it's called but it was staying nice and still waiting for its photograph to be taken.
In ABCs and 123s: I is for the Insect