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Short videos taken between some of the shots updated previously during a weekend, from a small secondary growth atlantic forest. Watch it in HD! Oh and yes, Flickr has a 3min limit. Complete one on YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHkFcXFNcY
Music by Mervent.
Bug tour at the Intu Metro Centre, Gateshead, North East England. On display from Feb 2nd to March 2nd 2019. . .
This is the Lychee stink bug, the bane of many farmers, look for them as they infest trees like Longan and Lychee trees and suck the sap.
A great place to find these are in Tai Po Kau nature reserve.
These are the colourful juveniles. The adults are almost uniform in appearance and quite drab by comparison.
Fascinating fact: The females always lay exactly 14 eggs!
Their name comes from their foul smelling, and long lasting excretion, to ward off predation.
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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!
I've tried trice before to get a ring flash- one was got from ebay but was advertised wrongly so would not work on my camera and the other was very cheap from Poland and didn't work properly either. Today, my sigma one arrived- second hand from ebay again, but fantastic! I have only had 5 minutes in the garden with it- I was focussing on the bug here deep inside the tulip - a shot I never could have got on a windy day before hand held. i'm looking forward to getting some better shots with it!!
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
I used to give out something called the "Bug Award". I put it on the windshields of 100s of VWs throughout the Chicagoland area, and DeKalb, Illinois in the early 1990s.
Any time I saw a VW Bug I'd pull a U-ey, or drive back around the block, pull over and put this under the windshield wiper. I drove my friends nuts! I marked off my finds on a map, and marked off every one I gave out.
Beetles were rare in Illinois by this time, eaten up by road salt. So to find one in the midwest was truly special. (Even more so now.)
" This Bug's For You" is a reference to Budweiser's famous ad slogan of that era, "This Bud's For You."
In Arizona if I gave out Bug Awards I'd never get anywhere. I'd be stopping all the time.
An engineless VW Bug in an Mojave desert yard.
Exposure: 2.4 minutes @ f/8, 200 ISO. Full moonlight and AA maglite
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