Staring Contest - _TNY_2287
Here are two green tiger beetles (Cicindela campestris) from a recent trip to Tyresta by and the main entrance to TyrestaNational Park.
I was following one of them hoping for it to stop so I could get a decent shot but it spotted another one and ran up to it and they stood there for a couple of seconds directly facing each other, before the one of the right yielded and turned a little to the left.
Since I had the MP-E65mm on the camera, this is as far away from the subject as I can get so I had to move a little to the side to be able to fit them both in frame here - but it worked out.
The principal visual difference between males and females are the size of the mandibles as the males have bigger ones - but based on that - this would be two females. I'm not sure.
Here's a shot where it is easy to see the size difference between the mandibles: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50283759436/
Staring Contest - _TNY_2287
Here are two green tiger beetles (Cicindela campestris) from a recent trip to Tyresta by and the main entrance to TyrestaNational Park.
I was following one of them hoping for it to stop so I could get a decent shot but it spotted another one and ran up to it and they stood there for a couple of seconds directly facing each other, before the one of the right yielded and turned a little to the left.
Since I had the MP-E65mm on the camera, this is as far away from the subject as I can get so I had to move a little to the side to be able to fit them both in frame here - but it worked out.
The principal visual difference between males and females are the size of the mandibles as the males have bigger ones - but based on that - this would be two females. I'm not sure.
Here's a shot where it is easy to see the size difference between the mandibles: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50283759436/