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We (that's me and Islay) enjoyed an amazing wild camp on the shore of Fionn Loch in this great wilderness before climbing arguably the remotest Munro in Scotland, A' Mhaighdean. Although devoid of humans, there was a plague of pesky midges! (My Nikon was yet again too heavy for my backpack!).
The Scottish midges really made me suffer here.
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From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
(Matthew 16:21)
Not many could predict the location and manner of their own death. Only the Son of God could go on to predict that he would rise from the dead three days later!
Wee little fellow. I love their feathered antennae. Its placement on the fern should give you a context of its size.
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Standing by the river waiting to get that shot....& the breeze has gone, you can see hordes of the little perishers...so far they have not got your scent...but you know thats not going to last.
Well for once, just this time i managed to get away with it...there is a God after all!
Ben More, Perthshire, seen from the River at Crainlarich.
If you look in the last photo you will see this old longship left by the Vikings many years ago.. :-)
Something different. The ground is still very wet in places and today has been the first really brilliant day of sunshine (and maybe some heat in places) So the result is midge heaven! It was heaving with them! But such a glorious evening to be out!
A quick last post before I shoot off to Scotland for a week or so.
Here's another of That Tree at Llanberis, and if you look closely I managed to catch a small flight of midges hovering around it's upper branches.
I did like the delicate high cloud, but it soon burned away to give a cloudless sky - something of a rarity in Snowdonia.
BugGuide identified this as a non-biting Midge. I hadn't seen one before but that's just me ;) I find it quite interesting that it has interesting mouth-parts, like two little arms with which I believe it uses to hold it's food while it eats it. It also has these very interesting and quite fuzzy antenna. Cute for a bug - in my opinion and ever better when it's a bug that doesn't bite me!
Taken 29 May 2023 in my yard near Wasilla, Alaska.
Non Biting Midge (family Chironomidae)
It had been running around on this leaf of the Mirror bush, thankfully it decided to rest for a few moments.
On our bank holiday visit to Meldon Reservoir we followed the lake until we reached a nice little valley which was formed by that little stream I photographed here. We spend some time taking in the idyllic atmosphere - the boys were enjoying throwing pebbles into the water and I took a few photos while discovering that midges are obviously not limited to parts of Scotland!
Very tiny (almost) all-black male midge with wild antennae
Mitutoyo 20x NA 0.42, tube lens: Raynox (125mm)
Illumination: diffuse oblique
This Yellow headed blackbird is surrounded by an insect swarm of midges. They look a lot like mosquitos, but fortunately are non-biting.
Things have been very busy for me lately. I'm sorry I'm not commenting and posting as much as I'd like. Don't give up on me, I'm hoping to be back on track soon. I really do appreciate all my contacts and your support and kind comments on my photostream. Thank you all!
Male Marsh Harrier (and Midges) back lit in the early morning sun. If this was black and white I could have probably pretended it was a snow storm.
Taken in Norfolk.
Objective: Mitutoyo 5x NA 0.14
Tunbe lens: Raynox 125mm
Illumination: Oblique and dark field / polarization
Male chironomid midges in a huge swarm, backlit by the sun, dancing two hours before sunset. Just one of many social events found daily at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge.
Happy July 4th! I hope you all have a great evening! I don't know if we are going to have fireworks here since it has been so stormy here today!
I decided to use my OOAK LITDH (Midge) Steffie. She already had this outfit on so she already had the red, white and blue and I didn't have to put too much effort into it lol.
I tagged a few people I'm really bad at pulling up contacts so please forgive me if I didn't put you up here!
Small midge with backlight interference colours
This is a unusual perspective for stacking: from the head to the back of the wings more than 2000 single shots were needed. Also the shape of the wings is somewhat strange from this view-point and the resulting projection. Colours are from BACKLIGHT thin-film interference.
Mitutoyo 10x, NA0.28, tube lens: 125mm (Raynox)
Illumination: Dark-field and oblique