Spotted from Five Meters Away - _TNY_0240
Early spring isn't the best for spotting insects around Stockholm, Sweden as it is generally too cold for them to get going.
Me having a new camera means that I am itching to get some captures so as I was walking across the lawn at my mom's summer house I noticed some blue flowers and went to get the camera to at least get a flower photo if I couldn't find any insects.
As I got closer I realised the flowers were pennywort (Anemone hepatica) - but it wasn't until I got really close that I discovered that they had a visitor!
This is a female hairy Melangyna (Melangyna lasiophthalma) which was very cool with having a huge camera in her face and stayed on the pennyworts long enough for me to get several good shots.
The super-high resolution of the new camera is great. Zoom in on this one and you'll see that even if the eyes are very small in the full shot - you can easily make out the individual facets of the compound eyes when getting close.
Spotted from Five Meters Away - _TNY_0240
Early spring isn't the best for spotting insects around Stockholm, Sweden as it is generally too cold for them to get going.
Me having a new camera means that I am itching to get some captures so as I was walking across the lawn at my mom's summer house I noticed some blue flowers and went to get the camera to at least get a flower photo if I couldn't find any insects.
As I got closer I realised the flowers were pennywort (Anemone hepatica) - but it wasn't until I got really close that I discovered that they had a visitor!
This is a female hairy Melangyna (Melangyna lasiophthalma) which was very cool with having a huge camera in her face and stayed on the pennyworts long enough for me to get several good shots.
The super-high resolution of the new camera is great. Zoom in on this one and you'll see that even if the eyes are very small in the full shot - you can easily make out the individual facets of the compound eyes when getting close.