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My friend, David, and I have been discussing shield bugs, stink bugs, and how the world seems to be populated by similar species. I promised to post a shot of what we call a "stink bug," where I live.
Well, I had a great opportunity, yesterday, to photograph one when it was trapped in my car. It was conveniently perched on a window, so I was able to get its back and its belly.
Here's the fellow we call a stink bug!
BFF.
Two Shield Bugs on the underside of a leaf. Selangor, Malaysia. Cantao sp. possibly Cantao ocellatus (Thunberg, 1784).
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I found this handsome true bug (Heteroptera, Hemiptera) on my shirt yesterday, and I posed it on an old iron gate for a photo. It's small, about 1/4 inch long. I think I can make out five antenna segments, so maybe it's in the family Pentatomidae. I don't know anything else about it, including where I picked it up. (San Marcos Pass, 1 May 2020)
even stink bugs avoid taking the low road when they get they opportunity
backyard capture in chesterfield
Just happened to see this stink bug in the process of molting. After it emerged from the shell, it slowly made a circle back around to face the exoskeleton it had just shed, stuck its head in and flipped the empty shell off the post. It remained in the same location for the rest of the day. By nightfall it had changed colors becoming much darker.
Brown Marmorated Stinkbug designed and folded by Jake Schenthal. Folded from an uncut square of origamido paper. Hope you all like it! :)
Lacking the characteristic spines of the Tachinid family on its abdomen, this colourful little fly is actually quite cute, but it is still just as deadly as any other parasitoid to its larval hosts (Stinkbugs).
Approximately 10x macro of a stinkbug's compound eye.
Pentax K01 and Otamat 10mm f1.7 on extension.
Details:
www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/extreme-macro-s...
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For Maria, my shield bug specialist! Seen at Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center in Ghent, New York, USA on August 15, 2017. What a cutie! Maria, can you ID?
Another attempt at extreme / stacked macro. This is roughly 2.5x lifesized.
Taken January 20, 2015. Pentax K-3, DFA 50mm f2.8 macro on extension tubes, AF360FGZ flash.
70 image stack, combined in Zerene Stacker.
Finding high quality insects subjects this time of year is difficult - these stinkbugs are the only insects that seem to appear now an again during warm spells.
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My first ever - and the only one we saw during the whole holiday! But what a handsome bug it is :o) Rio Vez, Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal. 2015-06-03.
A very very variable in color (polymorphic) species in the stinkbug family from South America. I have a couple of other examples, but there seems to be no limit to the color variations this species has. How lovely and mysterious. Not sure what the research is on this thing, but it must be an interesting story. This is what you find when you dig around in the National Collection at the Smithsonian. Sadly all the specimens are old as there is little collecting going on these days.
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I found this cluster of eggs about a week ago and now they have hatched. They are stink bug eggs. Pardon the poor images but they are rather small and difficult to capture. I put the cloverleaf they were on in a container that I am raising tadpoles in the hopes that the tadpoles will eat them along with the Romaine lettuce they have been eating...
A very very variable in color (polymorphic) species in the stinkbug family from South America. I have a couple of other examples, but there seems to be no limit to the color variations this species has. How lovely and mysterious. Not sure what the research is on this thing, but it must be an interesting story. This is what you find when you dig around in the National Collection at the Smithsonian. Sadly all the specimens are old as there is little collecting going on these days.
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All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know
" Ode on a Grecian Urn"
John Keats
You can also follow us on Instagram account USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World
www.qbookshop.com/products/216627/9780760347386/Bees.html...
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
On August 31, 2023, I took a walk on the Uncle Sam Bikeway in Troy, New York, USA. When I didn't see much of interest on the ground, I started looking up & I saw this cute Shield Bug nymph! It was fairly high in the trees & there was a breeze, so I had some difficulty getting photos, but here they are, for your interest. One of two images.