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Here I am,bug bear, on holiday in Spain and sneaking in to the picnic hamper — in Andalucia, Spain.
The tibicen genus of cicadas is the most prevalent in the United States.... Males produce loud calls in the afternoon or evening (depending on the species) to attract females. These sounds, distinctive for each species, are produced by organs below the abdomen's base. These calls range from a loud buzz to a long rattling sound. Adults are not known to eat.
[scanned from an old 35mm print]
This is our all time great birthday party, my sons 7th. The theme was bugs. The party included bug mask making, bug cake, wall bugs, and best of all, bug blood drinks!
Hundreds of these little bugs used to gather on and under one particular type of tree at the campsite. Fascinating to watch.
there's a weird tree in the back yard thats always had hordes of weird bugs on it. on a sunny day they cluster about. they may also cluster in the rain sleet snow & hail, i dunno. but they shine nice in the sunshine.
Sharon (@sharritta) at 365Project.org challenge me this week to do a forced perspective shot.
I decided to combine that with a field trip to Victoria's Bug Zoo that I went on with an old friend.
I'm spending this week developing my professional web site (finally!), so I'm going to infill with some of the really groovy bug shots that I got on the weekend with my old friend LP.
This lady tarantula was quite tame. I even held her, which surprised me, as I'm quite terrified of spiders. Our guide put me at ease.
The Bug Zoo doesn't allow tripods, so lighting was definitely a challenge. I lost about 1/3 of my shots to camera shake and insufficient exposure. My macro lens opens up to f/2.8, but there's a lot going inside that lens that reduces its light output, so it's not a particulary fast f/2.8.
My VR macro lens has a 12" minimum focusing distance (close enough for me, thank you), which renders a wonderful 1:1 close up. However, as with any lens when you get this close, your DOF declines exponentially. Even at f/29, there's very little depth of field, and I couldn't get anywhere close to that, as it either forced an exposure too long to hand hold, or reduced my light to nothing when using the on-camera flash. I couldn't push it much past f/8.
Pushing the ISO to between 1600 and 2000 helped to shorten the shutter speed, but introduced a LOT of noise into the shot. Lightroom helped to mitigate that, but the adjustment brush liked to pick up the noise when Auto Masking while selecting each bug, making selection much more tedious.
I think next time I go, I'm going to rent a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. That should give me additional working distance, and provide me a greater depth of field at the same framing. I've shot with it before, and it's a *very* fast lens.
Very freaky viewed large.
Taken handheld with my Nikon D600 for 1/60th of a second at f/9, ISO 1600 with my Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR macro lens, using on-camera flash.
The whole set of high-resolution images from the Bug Zoo is avavilable on my Flickr site:
I don't know what this is but it looks pretty darn creepy to me. Is it a shell or a corpse? Some kind of Grasshopper?
Tailless whip scorpion eating a cricket. They are so reclusive that they are rarely seen eating. These 2 were given to me by someone in Orem. :0)
;Crunchy Bug ; is what we call them,because they're so hard to kill.Even when you step on them it takes a few stomps to make sure its dead and you can't just swat it with a fly swatter.
Novelty bug cupcakes custom made to order for a 3rd birthday party. Featuring snails, caterpillars, dragonflies, ladybirds and bumble bees.
This is one of my sons creations. Apparantly its a part bee, part stag beatle type bug. He is named "Dalek Khan", from doctor who which bares no relation at all to any kind of bee or stag beatle.. he just likes doctor who and the daleks! so, why not?
I was trying to take a nice shot of my Mum's dog Sam... but he just wanted to sniff the camera!
This shot has been entered in to the DPS weekly assignment Humor
These small bugs wander around on the sand, settling in small depressions. I watched one sift the sand for food, using its front legs. It also created a depression in the sand to hide in. When they sit still they are almost impossible to see, especially when they have sand grains on their backs.
Other species of these live in and around wetlands.
Three different Toad bugs out for a walk last week.
This bug is the real deal. taken with my little Sony Cyber Shot . It was only cropped and framed
I went out tonight for a few minutes to pick up my son , it was on the outside of the screen
door , luckily it was still there when I got home. A bit outside my comfort zone
I can only imagine what it would look like with my Nikon D5000
Researched this I think its an Orange Caterpillar Parasite Wasp
oooooh, heeby cheeby time
www.oocities.org/brisbane_parawasps/OrangeCaterpillarPara...