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Some strange bug i saw on our driveway at the weekend, so got the macro tubes out and snapped away, he wasn't moving much, then again, would you if some giant creature was stood above you with a camera?
Shhh, don't scare him away ! I want him for my bug collection.
*Cleaning our upstairs rooms and this little guy is interested in what we're doing. :)
23 shots stacked shot with a 10x microscope objective and home made tube lens. I think im getting around 5x out of the objective.
A Meadow Plant Bug, Leptopterna dolobrata, feeding on grass seeds in a prairie/meadow on TNC property in rural Walworth County, Wisconsin. June 30, 2019.
Poecilometis gravis
Family: Pentatomidae ( stink bugs , shield bugs )
Suborder: Heteroptera
Order: Hemiptera
I have had several observations of this genus locally in the past. Previous observations have all been of Poecilometis strigatus. However this one is a different species P. gravis. This one looks very similar to the previous observations but there are some minor differences: antennae colour, maybe more even punctation on the hemelytra, a more pronounced black dot on the hemelytra. All are consistent with P. gravis. One quite marked difference is the number of antennae segments; P. gravis has 5 segments whereas P. strigatus has only 4. In the case of this species, P. gravis, the second and third antennal segments are the same length.
It is usually assumed that stink bugs can be merely irritating with their unpleasant smelling spray. However the fluid can be hazardous if it gets in the eye and can cause corneal damage; injuries have been reported.
Reference
Shen YS, Hu CC. Irritant contact keratitis caused by the bodily fluids of a brown marmorated stink bug. Taiwan J Ophthalmol. 2017 Oct-Dec;7(4):221-223. doi: 10.4103/tjo.tjo_32_17. PMID: 29296555; PMCID: PMC5747233.
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A small Spider is watching a Bee inside a "Chelone obliqua"!
Explored 2013-9-30, highest position # 23
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Farmers knew of the Ladybird's value in reducing the level of pests in their crops and it was traditional for them to cry out the rhyme before they burnt their fields following harvests ( this reduced the level of insects and pests) in deference to the helpful ladybird:
Ladybug! Ladybug!
Fly away home.
Your house is on fire.
And your children all gone.
All except one,
And that's little Ann,
For she crept under
The frying pan.
The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. The fiery, dying star at its center is shrouded by a blanket of icy hailstones. This NASA Hubble Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 image shows impressive walls of compressed gas, laced with trailing strands and bubbling outflows. A dark, dusty torus surrounds the inner nebula (seen at the upper right).
At the heart of the turmoil is one of the hottest stars known. Despite a sizzling temperature of at least 450,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the star itself has never been seen, as it is hidden by the blanket of dust and shines most brightly in the ultraviolet, making it hard to observe. The Bug Nebula lies about 4,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Scorpius.
For more information please visit:
hubblesite.org/image/1628/news_release/2004-46
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A.Zijlstra (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
One of my favourites from the archive that I hadn't uploaded yet. It's a Syrphus torvus hoverfly.
(HÃ¥ret hageblomsterflue in Norwegian).
I spend the evening preparing for a family photo shoot tomorrow, a puppy shoot on Saturday and 5 confirmand photo shoots the next two weeks. Look forward to it!
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A few more close-up shots of insects.
There are two bugs in this shot. I can't identify either of them.
Look no Damselflies, I thought I would give everyone a break from my postings of Damselflies, even though they are one of my fav insects, spotted these Shield Bugs mating, not sure of the ID, at first glance thought it was Sloe bugs but their not, can anyone ID them for me please
Well, not a bug, a fly :-) I haven't used my macro lens in weeks (wah!) so I thought I'd post a macro shot from the summer. I hope everyone is looking forward to Thursday. I'm going to buy my turkey today. Happy Monday :-)
And this is not only a visualization bug, no, this error is rendered in the image!
System:
-- Adobe Photoshop CC, newest update
-- Geforce, GTX 750 Ti, newest drivers
-- 16 Gig RAM, Intel i5, 3,2 GHz, Win 7 64 Bit
That Graphics card is (was, for one year) normally the perfect Photoshop workhorse and now this ....
The errors are gone, the moment I switch-off GPU acceleration, but who wants that ..?!
UPDATE
www.docma.info/blog/olafs-aktion-fuer-bug-freies-verflues...
I think these are the nymphs of the Spined Predatory Shield Bug (Oechalia schellenbergii). Seen at Evan’s Crown Nature Reserve, Tarana, NSW.
The Bug Smashers are used to eliminate any threats caused by the planets dangerous flora and were made to protect resource extraction machinery and workers like the Drill Walker. Thers 4 types of soldiers. The basic Soldier(silver helmet), The Machine Operator (white helmet) which operate exo suits and other vehicles, Jetpacker (turquoise helmet) which can fly and the Commander (gold helmet) which commands and leads squadrons. For drones and machinery there is the basic auto targeting turret, The cargo carrying dog and the airborne drone. For vehicles there is the Exo suit that the Machine Operator is controlling. The Exo-suit and Dog were not originally made to be used against the bugs and were originally used to transport and help move cargo at the planets various facility's. The Exo-suit was upgraded to withstand its quad-canons recoil and to withstand the fall it endures when being dropped from a dropship. The Exo-suit can hold onto more cargo and guns on its back thanks to the various bar attachments. Usually the suit is equipped with a quad canon and a backup shotgun to deal with the bug threat. The Bug Smashers were inspired by the game helldivers and their bug like enemy's.
The bugs seem to love the California poppies in my garden at the moment. I guess it's the bright orange colour which attracts them.
it's a bug, and it might be a shieldbug, but it isn't adult. Don't know whether this is identifiable.
Edit: Thanks to Jonathan Michaelson for the ID suggestion, which looks spot on.
Tiny spider hunting on this flower, photo taken using 2 remote controlled Godox V860 flashunits. One unit put on the left towards the front inside a large 60x90 softbox and one unit slightly to the left rear inside a smaller round softbox.
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Hi everyone !
After just recieving my Bellows three days back, i thought i'd give them a go with an insect i found in the garden behind some large slabs up against the wall. It was around 0 degrees outside so he was considered in hibernation or dead as he didn't move for a good half hour....
I took the little guy inside and let him warm up whilst i got my lunch, when i got back he was sitting under the warm lamp on my camera... perfect chance for me to get some snaps...
He was on the whole pretty co operative, but every now and again when i was trying to get enough images for a stack he would move his head or antenae and i would have to start over... which on the whole took a long time in getting something i would be happy enough in uploading.
This image was around 10 images stacked in the Zerene stacker which i only just downloaded today after photoshop was just not doing the job i wanted... If a picture was slightly out of alignment then it would produce a very blurry image. I hope to upload my Setup for some people who have been requesting to see it, but beware it's a bit eccentric, nevertheless it works and it is very cheap indeed to get the bits you need.
This image was taken with a Canon550D
50mm f1.8 FD Prime lens
Lens reversed onto extension tubes
Then tubes put onto the bellows
Bellows fully stretched out...
Flash attached to the camera via a flash chord around 30cm to the left of the camera with no hot shoe to get past the bellow length...
As always here's some interesting facts about this wonderfully colored bug ; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatomoidea
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