The Tell - _TNY_5453
There are a couple of quite similar chafers in my area. One of the better ways to tell which of the species it happens to be is to turn it over. Do you see that round-ish protrusion underneath the head? The shape of that one tells me this is a brown rose chafer (Protaetia marmorata) and not one of the other species (where it is shaped differently).
When I am at my mother's summer house at Saltarö in the inner Stockholm archipelago and can't find anything interesting to shoot, I have discovered that she keeps a nice stash outside the house. It turns out that several species of chafers - like this marbled rose one - manage to pick up the faint smell of decomposing fruit and vegetables and find their way inside.
This means I can (often) just pop the lid and pick one up for a little photo session. The beetle pictured here was unusually docile and allowed me to make a six-exposure focus stack that can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50157971993/
The Tell - _TNY_5453
There are a couple of quite similar chafers in my area. One of the better ways to tell which of the species it happens to be is to turn it over. Do you see that round-ish protrusion underneath the head? The shape of that one tells me this is a brown rose chafer (Protaetia marmorata) and not one of the other species (where it is shaped differently).
When I am at my mother's summer house at Saltarö in the inner Stockholm archipelago and can't find anything interesting to shoot, I have discovered that she keeps a nice stash outside the house. It turns out that several species of chafers - like this marbled rose one - manage to pick up the faint smell of decomposing fruit and vegetables and find their way inside.
This means I can (often) just pop the lid and pick one up for a little photo session. The beetle pictured here was unusually docile and allowed me to make a six-exposure focus stack that can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50157971993/