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If your copy of Windows acts strangely it most likely is caused by this little bug. When they invade computers in search of a warm place to lay their eggs they often cause havoc to the enviroment. Signs of investation are error messages, missing sound, undeletable files and the worst of them all; the dreaded blue screen of death (happens when these bugs gets fried on the graphic card).
But jokes aside... While I was busy monitoring the Woodlouse this bug (which I don't know the name of) caught my eye. It was so tiny that the only thing I saw was a black dot moving. So I took a quick shot and cropped the image as much as I could. If I'd had the 1x-5x Canon macro lens I might have gotten a sharper image, but then again I doubt I would've had the time to frame it :)
Bug tour at the Intu Metro Centre, Gateshead, North East England. On display from Feb 2nd to March 2nd 2019. . .
This is my first attempt at interval shooting of lightning bugs. An earlier attempt of mine was simply long exposure.
The green lights are the male bugs. I used a stack of layers in PhotoShop for time lapse photography. The purple light is the residue of the sun that set at least half an hour earlier.
I wish this photo were better.
I struggled with the interval settings of my camera for a long time in the dark. My camera's buttons are illuminated as its back LCD, so I could navigate the settings reasonably well in the dark. I thought I had set up the camera correctly during the day hours but here in the field at night it just wouldn't go on. Finally, I realized I had turned on my timer to photo the dim scenery at twilight and that the interval program could not be activated while the timer was on. Whew! Problem solved. But I think I knocked the focus of my lens slightly off in the process of fixing the interval shooting.
By my third attempt, I was better with my camera and its nighttime stack/interval settings but unfortunately the lightning bugs had faded out. I think for the season. They also were collecting in the trees, where they weren't moving much. The field I used on my first attempt was much better since the lightning bugs were on the move.
My first attempt above may be the lightning bugs' last big shindig this season. I see them still out but they just aren't in the numbers that they were. I also have a scenic location picked out, but apparently, the lightning bugs do not consider my location such a perfect place.
I'm posting this as a benchmark for myself. I know the perfect background that I want for a lightning bug shooting. Now if only the lightning bugs and my camera will cooperate.
Ever seen a lady bug nest?
Well, picture not just one nest, but an entire hill side, about 30 ft high by 100 ft long filled with these nests. Literally swarms of them flying around!
I saw 2 such hill sides on my hike the other day along a mountain stream in Mt Baldy. It was the first time I was in a swarm of bugs and happy to have them landing on me.
The splash of colors on these bugs warn birds and other predators of a nasty taste and poisonous meal. The toxin come from eating the Milkweed plant which creates the chemical.
Please enlarge for an even better creepy-crawler :) Enjoy!
Good morning everyone and Happy Hug a Bug Day. I was working on a series on moths I photographed last season to post, but ran out of time to complete it for today. So instead just a single posting of a Orange-tipped Leaf-footed Bug (Anasa tristis) a member of the family Coreidae.
Coreidae are a large family of predominantly herbivorous insects that belong in the hemipteran suborder Heteroptera. There are more than 1,800 species in over 250 genera. They vary in size from .250 - 1.750 inches (7 to 45 mm) in length, making the larger species some of the biggest heteropterans. The body shape of Coreids is quite variable, with some species broadly oval while others are slender. Coreids are found throughout the world but most species are found in the tropics and subtropics.
In North America they are colloquially called “squash bugs” because some species, such as Anasa tristis, are pests of squashes. They are also called “leaf-footed bugs” due to the leaf-like expansions some species have on their hindlegs that can be clearly seen above.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you have a truly nice last day of January, which is ending on a warm note here locally.
Lacey
ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .006 seconds (1/180) focal length 300mm
An engineless VW Bug in an Mojave desert yard.
Exposure: 2.4 minutes @ f/8, 200 ISO. Full moonlight and AA maglite
Photo taken by our friend Jean-René
Bug called Rhinocéros, Oryctes Nasicornis, Scarabaeidae
4 cm long
Lady bug rug. In my youngest two daughters room. They love lady bugs thus the color choice. Took amout 1 month to make. Made from wool fabric that had been stored in my great aunts basement for over 50 years
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.
A man brought in a small electronic bug from Radio Shack and the cats were all just fascinated by it. I think I have to buy one of these!
n Mexico some things seem to live forever, like old VW bugs. Also, on the walls, the butterflies never die... From my morning run. A long one. Today a worker I past fist bumped me. Out of the blue. ✌️
This followed the prompt fairly well, down to the bone-handled cutlery of the 1940's. Pretty good for a little-known generator.
AI image (DDG - Z Image Turbo).