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Bug Nebula
Images Taken: April 28th
Location: Bentleigh (Bayside Melbourne (Bortle 7 Skies)
Camera: P30 Lite Phone Camera
Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Telescope: 80mm Orion Short Tube
Eyepiece: 24mm Televue Panoptic
Phone Holder: Saxon Scopepix
28 x 30 Second Lights (14m)
ISO 400
6 Darks
Stacked in APP & Processed in photoshop.
I don't know what kind of bug this is, but they hover in groups of 5-6, about 6-12 inches apart. They don't make any discernable sound, nor do they seem to harm humans.
One of five ambush bugs I found today by carefully examining the goldenrod. This one is immature and has only rudimentary wing buds. The raptorial claws are fully functional. The next upload is my first video upload and it is the third ambush bugs pictured below.
Steve @ Bug Lake (June 27)
This trip was doomed from the start. Pouring rain, and no intel regarding how far we’d get in a 2WD. Despite those warning signs Eric and Kim joined me for a trek into the unknown, to a place with a foreboding name.
The drive most of the way was wet, and muddy but mostly without incident save for a few logging trucks. However, about 4km from the trailhead we hit a rock obstacle and worked our way over, only to hit trees making further driving impossible. We got out and hoofed it.
The trailhead was almost impossible to find,.. but once we did and got past the first 200m, it became a decent trail, though steep and muddy,... and buggy. We climbed and climbed through what looked like moss and old growth and for some reason Kim got most of the bugs. We never did reach the lake due to the extra 4km each way and impact to our turn around time, we made it about 60% of the way up the actual trail. I’ve rarely been so soaked through my boots.
The unfortunate kicker is that this is one of my goal hikes to complete the 103 hikes book,... so I have to go back,.. when I do I’ll probably aim for better weather and bring a mountain bike.
This hand painted Bug was spotted in a field in Wheelersburg, Ohio. This image has won an award for 1st place for Best of Color.
Austrotichus rugosus Thanks for the ID Gerry Cassis.
A lovely rainbow bug. Even the little dots on its white abdomen reflect rainbows.
Sap feeder sitting on the fruit of an Allocasuarina humilis plant
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Here I am,bug bear, on holiday in Spain and sneaking in to the picnic hamper — in Andalucia, Spain.
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!
Steve @ Bug Lake (June 27)
This trip was doomed from the start. Pouring rain, and no intel regarding how far we’d get in a 2WD. Despite those warning signs Eric and Kim joined me for a trek into the unknown, to a place with a foreboding name.
The drive most of the way was wet, and muddy but mostly without incident save for a few logging trucks. However, about 4km from the trailhead we hit a rock obstacle and worked our way over, only to hit trees making further driving impossible. We got out and hoofed it.
The trailhead was almost impossible to find,.. but once we did and got past the first 200m, it became a decent trail, though steep and muddy,... and buggy. We climbed and climbed through what looked like moss and old growth and for some reason Kim got most of the bugs. We never did reach the lake due to the extra 4km each way and impact to our turn around time, we made it about 60% of the way up the actual trail. I’ve rarely been so soaked through my boots.
The unfortunate kicker is that this is one of my goal hikes to complete the 103 hikes book,... so I have to go back,.. when I do I’ll probably aim for better weather and bring a mountain bike.
Assasin bug (Reduviidae), photographed at Chadron State Park, about 9 miles south of Chadron Nebraska on August 28, 2016.
Ok the goal was to photograph a lightning bug with his /her light on. So at dusk I caught 5 or six lightning bugs gently placed them in a empty milk jug. Then I set up my camera, took the lid off the milk jug, and placed some long stems of grass into the open container for them to crawl out on and into my cameras field of view. The plan worked great except not a single one of them lit their light in the time they crawled up the stems and then flew. Apparently the trauma of their incarceration in the milk jug extinguished their light. Here are a few of the best shots even though the light isn't on so to speak. Stay tuned I have another plan, Ha Ha
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:
;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.
Matt is driving ......... Matt is the DJ too...... so we are listening to an eclecttic mix of The Cult and The Specials..... Cake....... Mumford and Sons....... Damien Rice....... and BB King.......... amongst others...... Matt says this track ['Many Miles Travelled' by BB King](http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search?q='Many%20Miles%20Travelled'%20) is my theme song......... :-/ :-)
We r rolling from Fort Lauderdale to Tampa across the everglades and up the Gulf Coast......... the day in Fort Lauderdale was perfect........ the night drive not so much...... pretty grim in fact ..... as its all foggy across the swamps and now along the coastal road...... its gone midnight....... this fog is slowing us down big time......... even the Beast car cannot speed us through all this...........
America sometimes amazes me with all this drastic weather and differing landscape and experience......... snow storms up in Rochester yesterday ....... today sun, sea and sand in Fort Lauderdale........ tonight humidity swamps and thick fog ........ I've been hanging out in the States for nearly a decade but it still amazes me sometimes.
Matt told me today he had been here in the US for 10 years and one day....... I'm not that precise in fact as you know Im pretty vague........ hehehe.......but I have been zapping about over here for more than nine years amazingly....... and incredibly it all still seems new and interesting....... this fog......hundreds of miles of fog...... is a new one on me........ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-)))))
Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
PS.......... We are in Tampa now....... This Beastie above at the gas station was unafraid of the red Beast....... it was even having a go at me............. talking of new and interesting I think this Roach thingy at approx 4 inches long was the biggest bug I have ever seen...... enough to totally creep me out when it rushed towards me......... agggghhhhhhhhh ........... anyway its crazily late again now gotta kip :-/
Novelty bug cupcakes custom made to order for a 3rd birthday party. Featuring snails, caterpillars, dragonflies, ladybirds and bumble bees.