Injured Love - _TNY_7371
I''m probably going to post quite a lot of green tiger beetles (Cicindela campestris) for a while now. It used to be an event whenever I saw one, but eventually I seem to have picked up where to find them and this was right next to the (gravel) parking lot at the main entrance to the Tyresta National Park and in the sand bank between the forest and the parking, they were getting it on - a lot. Also, just walking across the parking, there wereone of these taking off and getting out of the way every five steps I took.
Finding a mating pair and photograph them is obviously very nice, but truth be told, they are actually way easier to shoot than the single ones - not at all as skittish.
If you look at the female here, she is missing both a leg and an antennae which presumably makes her (and thus them when coupled) even less mobile which I suppose was helpful in me capturing them like this.
Injured Love - _TNY_7371
I''m probably going to post quite a lot of green tiger beetles (Cicindela campestris) for a while now. It used to be an event whenever I saw one, but eventually I seem to have picked up where to find them and this was right next to the (gravel) parking lot at the main entrance to the Tyresta National Park and in the sand bank between the forest and the parking, they were getting it on - a lot. Also, just walking across the parking, there wereone of these taking off and getting out of the way every five steps I took.
Finding a mating pair and photograph them is obviously very nice, but truth be told, they are actually way easier to shoot than the single ones - not at all as skittish.
If you look at the female here, she is missing both a leg and an antennae which presumably makes her (and thus them when coupled) even less mobile which I suppose was helpful in me capturing them like this.